The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 304

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“By 2040, France and Germany are going to be ____, historically” (George Friedman) has-beens
“The ____ of his coffers shall make coats / To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars” (Shakespeare’s Richard II) LINING
A final effort or performance last hurrah
Advertising slogan used since the early 1980s, originally followed by “as they say in Germany” Vorsprung Durch Technik
Albert and Michel ____ opened the Waterside Inn, the first restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, to win three Michelin stars ROUX
American actor popularly known as Sly Sylvester Stallone
An essential accompaniment OBBLIGATO
An obsessive thought or desire idee fixe
Ancient Sanskrit treatise on love as well as eroticism kama sutra
Animals associated with heavy rain cats and dogs
Another name for a sea-squirt ascidian
Archaic name for a Muslim MUSSULMAN
Botticelli painting featuring Venus, the nymph Chloris and the Roman goddess Flora who she transforms into PRIMAVERA
Brand of mints named after the distinctive sound made by opening and closing its container Tic Tac
Brazil’s first capital city, now capital of the state of Bahia SALVADOR
Chinese winner of snooker’s 2021 UK Championship Zhao Xintong
Colloquial word for an apotheosis HUMDINGER
Director of films including Alien and Blade Runner Ridley Scott
Equal in duration isochronous
First name of the character played by Jennifer Saunders in Absolutely Fabulous EDINA
Forest deer, native to Japan, also naturalised in the UK SIKA
Former name of John F Kennedy International Airport IDLEWILD
In a 1989 film also starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff and Beau Bridges played the ____ Fabulous Baker Boys
In Australia, a minimum pay rate for particular workers award wage
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In golf, a stroke intended to put the ball onto the green approach shot
In Irish mythology, the equivalent of Elysium Tir-na-nog
In statistics, a ____ coefficient is the covariance of the random variables X and Y, divided by the square root of the product of their variances CORRELATION
In Steptoe and Son, Harold and Albert are ____ rag-and-bone men
Israeli prime minister who succeeded Ehud Barak in 2001 Ariel Sharon
Latin for “to be” ESSE
Lead singer of the band whose 2003 hit Seven Nation Army became a sports anthem Jack White
Mother of the first Queen Elizabeth anne boleyn
Narrator of The Arabian Nights scheherezade
Only major character in MASH portrayed by the same actor in the film and TV versions RADAR
Opponents of the Axis in the Second World War ALLIES
Perforated plate used in replicating designs STENCIL
Principal components of most alloys base metals
Significant feature of the UK’s only entire city named as a Unesco World Heritage Site BATH
Singer who recorded two Trio albums with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris Linda Ronstadt
Small Jewish settlements in eastern Europe SHTETLS
Split pulses, especially lentils, used in Indian cookery DHAL
Study of the world views of different cultures ethnoscience
That which a diabetic must frequently monitor blood sugar
The dance music equivalent of tempo BPM
The father of Romulus and Remus MARS
The most populous city of New Jersey NEWARK
To soften flax or hemp using moisture RET
____ Castle is a former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory herstmonceux