The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 198

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“The ____s were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke” (Antony and Cleopatra) OAR
'Not the ____ which blows no man to good' (Pistol, in King Henry IV) ill wind
1979 album by Fleetwood Mac TUSK
19th-century Italian painter best known for his Alpine landscapes Giovanni Segantini
A catafalque is often used in this ceremonial event lying in state
A male or female factotum Person Friday
A mother who gave birth when over 100 years old, according to chapter 5 of Genesis EVE
According to the Church of England’s Table of Kindred and Affinity, a man may not marry his ____ NIECE
Actor who played butler Benson in the US sitcom Soap Robert Guillaume
Air-filled skull cavity, a Latin word meaning “curve” or “pocket” SINUS
An unskilled computer hacker who makes use of existing code script kiddie
Ancient Scandinavian brass instrument LUR
Artistic presentation in which performers are motionless tableau vivant
Author of the Inspector Morse novels Colin Dexter
Bernard ____ was a fictional scientist on 1950s BBC TV QUATERMASS
Box from which cards are dealt in a casino SHOE
Brand name shown on many speed cameras gatso
British name for an x-ray device used in shoe shops during fitting in the mid-20th century pedoscope
Canadian author of The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
Canadian crime comedy series about mountie Benton Fraser’s adventures in Chicago Due South
Colourless viscous liquid used to sweeten food and thicken liqueurs GLYCEROL
Comic actor who played Ken in the “Suits you” sketches Paul Whitehouse
Devon town, with England’s most westerly racecourse Newton Abbot
Driver who in 1995 became (and remains) the youngest ever winner of the World Rally Championship Colin McRae
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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