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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Which person's report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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

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