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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.

The Questions

1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.