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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.

The Queries

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

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

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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

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