Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men on the ____ is about a bicycle tour in the Black Forest |
bummel |
Knitting material; a drink of hot spiced ale and apple pulp |
LAMBSWOOL |
Major city of western Ukraine, near the Polish border |
LVIV |
Major transport hub situated on the River Liffey |
Dublin Port |
Novelist who wrote the screenplay for The Third Man |
Graham Greene |
Persian king who tried to invade Greece in 480BC |
XERXES |
Popularly, the item used in “vaping” |
e-cigarette |
Predecessor of Scotland’s N5, the exam before Highers |
O grade |
Presenter of Network 7 on Channel 4, and an early promoter of Sigue Sigue Sputnik |
Magenta Devine |
Puerto Rico’s ____ Observatory was the world’s largest radio telescope until 2016 |
ARECIBO |
Scottish town where Skol lager was first produced |
ALLOA |
Sir Thomas Malory’s collection of chivalric legends, first published in 1485 |
Le Morte d'Arthur |
Site of the Luxor and Karnak temples |
THEBES |
The first BMW car was a licensed version of the ____ 7 |
AUSTIN |
The hardwood tree Tectona grandis |
TEAK |
The innermost sacred part of a temple |
ADYTUM |
The only man who has won the Tour de France for five years in a row |
Miguel Indurain |
The opposite of laity |
CLERGY |
The son of James II was known as the ____ |
Old Pretender |
The usual name for a barrister in Scotland |
ADVOCATE |
Thick noodle used in Japanese cookery |
UDON |
Wading bird worshipped by ancient Egyptians |
IBIS |
____ fishing is angling for fish not in the salmon family |
COARSE |
____ the Cat was a major cartoon star in the silent movie era |
FELIX |
____’s novel An Awfully Big Adventure was filmed in 1995 |
Beryl Bainbridge |