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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

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

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

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.