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

The Queries

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: 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; 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.