Ferdinand II of ____ and Isabella I of Castile were Spain’s “Catholic Monarchs” |
ARAGON |
Form of alternative medicine, devised by Mikao Usui |
REIKI |
Handel pastoral opera based on characters in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
Acis and Galatea |
If you do this in bridge, your opponents will almost certainly score 50 or more points above the line |
OVERBID |
In Roman myth, a son of the vestal virgin Rhea Silvia |
REMUS |
In spite of what has just been stated |
even then |
Jamaican-born US 400m runner, world No 1, 2005-09 |
Sanya Richards-Ross |
Jean Hill, witness to the assassination of John F Kennedy, was known as the ____ |
Lady In Red |
Lover of Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World |
Shawn Keogh |
Mammal with lips but no teeth |
ANTEATER |
Name for a Cambridge University undergraduate course |
TRIPOS |
National anthem whose original title translates as “War Song for the Army of the Rhine” |
MARSEILLAISE |
Obsolete double reed instrument pitched below the oboe |
tenoroon |
Pike-like fish of the Belone genus |
GAR |
Short thrusting sword in use until the 17th century |
ESTOC |
Singer whose 2010 debut album Lights entered the UK charts at No 1 |
Ellie Goulding |
Small pipe on the side or roof of many houses |
boiler flue |
Sport named after a Warwickshire school |
RUGBY |
The fact-obsessed school board superintendent in Hard Times |
Thomas Gradgrind |
The Girls of ____ is a Muriel Spark novel about hard times in Kensington in 1945 |
slender means |
The snowflake genus |
LEUCOJUM |
The sum of four consecutive primes, the first being 193 |
eight hundred |
Thomas Hardy poem about the evening chorus of birds |
Proud Songsters |
Unleavened bread eaten during Passover |
MATZO |