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

The Queries

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

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; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: from 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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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