The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 097

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'____ is not the art of scholars, but illiterates' (Werner Herzog) FILM
1976 musical gangster comedy movie with a cast of children Bugsy Malone
2009 film starring Colin Firth, based on a Christopher Isherwood novel about a gay academic A Single Man
A constellation named after an ancient Greek musical instrument LYRA
A deadly sin ENVY
A kitchen mill or grater, both with three choices for the rotating component mouli
A long-legged wading bird STILT
A poem with six verses, all ending with the first or last line of the first verse VILLANELLE
A ____ is the last entire pet called Eric in Monty Python’s Fish Licence sketch fruit bat
Adjustable diaphragm used in most modern cameras IRIS
Alfredo ____ scored for Real Madrid in five European Cup victories Di Stefano
Ancient Roman military unit with about 500 soldiers COHORT
As at least some people think SUPPOSEDLY
As sold in the UK, this Italian sausage comes from Bologna MORTADELLA
As something to be on, an opposite to 'wagon' Razzle
At sea, 'stop!' AVAST
Austrian abbot whose work started modern genetics Gregor Mendel
Avoid going to bed sit up
Backward movement of a fired gun RECOIL
Behaviour matching that of most other people CONFORMITY
Britain’s highest chalk sea cliff Beachy Head
Character who does not eat Sophie in a Roald Dahl book The BFG
Czech composer of The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Emily Brontë character played in films by Laurence Olivier, Timothy Dalton and Ralph Fiennes HEATHCLIFF
English syllable, maybe repeated, equivalent to 'grunz' in German, 'boo' in Japanese, and 'nöff' in Swedish OINK
Former centre of Catharism in France’s Tarn department ALBI
Former name for the western part of New Guinea, annexed by Indonesia in 1962 Irian Jaya
French mathematician, whose topological Conjecture was proved in 2003 Henri Poincare
Group of museums informally called 'America’s attic' Smithsonian Institution
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Gut feelings may also be located ____ in one's bones
In Australia, genuine or true DINKUM
In marketing, ____ time is the period during which a customer waits in a queue DWELL
Informally, the first US president to win the Nobel peace prize Teddy Roosevelt
International ecological non-governmental organisation, whose logo is a panda World Wide Fund for Nature
Lowest possible rating in many online reviews one-star
Lytton ____ wrote Eminent Victorians, which revolutionised biographical writing STRACHEY
Of a business, no longer operating closed down
Old Testament book of poems grieving for the destruction of Jerusalem by a Babylonian army Lamentations of Jeremiah
One of the 'ines herbes' in French cuisine TARRAGON
One recipe for ____ uses mayonnaise, chopped pickles, ketchup, lemon juice and minced garlic Thousand Island dressing
Permission to be absent from a school or college EXEAT
River in Devon, with a small population of beavers OTTER
Someone who makes tight-fitting undergarments CORSETIERE
Sydney is its largest city OCEANIA
The 'apple of love' in some European languages TOMATO
The 1942-3 battle of ____ is possibly the bloodiest in history STALINGRAD
The first talkie feature film, starring Al Jolson The Jazz Singer
The last major British TV drama series made in black and white, first shown in 1967 The Forsyte Saga
The police of this port 'dismisseth us' in a tongue-twister LEITH
The second electronic digital stored-program computer, first used at the University of Cambridge in 1949 edsac
The ____ Channel is between Mexico and Cuba YUCATAN
Thomas Love Peacock novel, similar to his previous Headlong Hall Crotchet Castle
Type of missile used to destroy other missiles surface-to-air
Urban railway system in Germany S-bahn
Widespread hatred, often incurred as a result of one’s actions ODIUM
Winston Churchill’s birthplace Blenheim Palace
Woven fabric with a pattern of diagonal ridges TWILL
____ and the Range of Light is a book of Ansel Adams photos YOSEMITE