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What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

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

7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

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

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.