Goose which is the state bird of Hawaii |
NENE |
In 1910, aviation pioneer ____ won a prize of 10,000 dollars offered by Joseph Pulitzer for the first 137-mile flight, with two stops, from Albany to Manhattan |
Glenn Curtiss |
In boxing, a punch delivered with a wide swing of the arm |
ROUNDHOUSE |
In the 1000th edition of Top of the Pops, broadcast in 1983, the No 1 single was performed by ____ |
Spandau Ballet |
John ____ was director-general of the BBC, 1992-2000 |
BIRT |
Kim Hunter won the 1951 best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as ____ in A Streetcar Named Desire |
Stella Kowalski |
Lunch, as a French noun or verb |
DEJEUNER |
Most delicious or attractive |
YUMMIEST |
Name for UFO sightings, popularised in a 1977 film |
close encounters |
Nickname given to the French, US and UK flags (among others) |
red white and blue |
Pablo ____ made the first recording of the Bach cello suites |
CASALS |
Paul ____ was the founder of Germany’s federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines |
EHRLICH |
Prime minister of Denmark since June 2019 |
Mette Frederiksen |
Saint ____ was the “Apostle to the Picts” |
COLUMBA |
Shown in or out |
USHERED |
Stage name of 1960s pop icon Terence Nelhams-Wright |
adam faith |
Students ridiculed for their studiousness |
SWOTS |
The capital of Jersey |
Saint Helier |
The capital of Somalia |
MOGADISHU |
The first performance on the 1000th edition of Top of the Pops was ____ by Thompson Twins |
We Are Detective |
The volume control of an amplifier |
GAIN |
The ____, Chris Rea album of 1998 |
Blue Cafe |
Those who take goods as booty |
plunderers |
Wiltshire town whose abbey is the burial place of the first king of the whole of England |
malmesbury |