The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 165

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“Enthusiasm is the ____ of man; it is the passing of the human to the divine” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) HEIGHT
1990s antiques quiz show aired on BBC Two Going Going Gone
2004 demolition derby racing game developed by Bugbear Entertainment FLATOUT
A name for a pompous individual, apparently originated by Rudyard Kipling little tin god
A narrow marine passage STRAIT
A plant of the Euphrasia genus, used by herbalists EYEBRIGHT
A senior executive in the former Board of Admiralty Sea Lord
A small piece of software which runs within another APPLET
A village in the Netherlands or South Africa DORP
A ____ aims to achieve socialism by gradual rather than revolutionary means FABIAN
Actor who played Lukewarm in the sitcom Porridge Christopher Biggins
BBC sitcom which starred Robert Lindsay as “Wolfie” Citizen Smith
Born Solomon Cohen, a star of the Carry On films Sid James
Clemenceau’s response to Woodrow Wilson’s “____ points” on post-war peace was “____? The good Lord had only ten” FOURTEEN
Condition affecting social communication and interaction AUTISM
Echo, ____, Hotel GOLF
EM Forster novel containing the line “Adventures do occur, but not punctually” A Passage to India
Fermented rye drink, sold from tanks in Russian city streets KVASS
Feudal allegiance FEALTY
French-born pirate who helped to defend New Orleans from the British in the final battle of the War of 1812 Jean Lafitte
In 2009, ____ McLeod was the first black player to qualify for the World Snooker Championship RORY
In cell cytoplasm, organelles which store and release energy MITOCHONDRIA
Italian actress and daughter of Ingrid Bergman Isabella Rossellini
Latin American percussion instrument made from a gourd GUIRO
Clues Answers
Latin word used in an abbreviated form when citing a work already cited IBIDEM
Location of Italy’s busiest airport FIUMICINO
Natural covering such as skin or exoskeleton INTEGUMENT
Original presenter, for 25 years, of University Challenge Bamber Gascoigne
Phoebe’s identical twin in Friends URSULA
Poisonous gas used in the First World War PHOSGENE
Pollex THUMB
Ritualistic martial art, literally “way of the sword” KENDO
Sesame Street’s saxophone-playing owl HOOTS
Shabby hotel or unkempt person FLEABAG
Singer of Arcade, winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest Duncan Laurence
Small arachnid feeding on blood TICK
Stupor-producing drug NARCOTIC
Sugar-refining equipment which raises liquid by air or steam pressure monte-jus
The Greek goddess of fertility and agriculture DEMETER
The Ottoman empire’s equivalent of a prime minister Grand Vizier
The three days before Ash Wednesday SHROVETIDE
To “lay by the ____” is to put (someone) in fetters HEELS
Trade name for the sedative drug also called quinalbarbitone SECONAL
Until July 2016, Puerto Rico’s ____ Observatory housed the world’s largest radio telescope ARECIBO
Violet-scented substance used in perfumery orris root
____ hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics salt lake city
____ in Tunisia is one of the cities labelled as Islam’s fourth holiest kairouan
____ national park was Tanzania’s first Unesco world heritage site SERENGETI