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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: 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 Spy titles in books: Ian 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.