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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge 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 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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