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

The Queries

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

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

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 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 Title spies in novels: Ian 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.