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

The Queries

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

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

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.