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How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

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

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

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