| “Albinoni’s ____” was mainly by Remo Giazotto |
ADAGIO |
| “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a ____ and curious volume” (Edgar Allan Poe) |
QUAINT |
| “____ Avenue” is a clichéd suburban street name |
ACACIA |
| 1970s Trollope-based BBC TV costume drama series |
The Pallisers |
| A huge fan |
ADORER |
| A letter in the Nato alphabet which is also a type of bet |
YANKEE |
| A name for the fifth proposition of Euclid, considered harder than the previous four |
pons asinorum |
| According to the gov.uk website, the UK has been a ____ of electricity since 2004 |
net importer |
| Actress who Fred Astaire somewhat reluctantly named as his favourite dancing partner |
Rita Hayworth |
| Approximately 2,500,000-5,000BC |
Stone Age |
| Biblical king of Israel who married Jezebel |
AHAB |
| Carlos Castaneda wrote books about training from a ____ |
SHAMAN |
| City known as the oil capital of Europe |
ABERDEEN |
| Country containing much of the Pamir mountains |
TAJIKISTAN |
| EF _____ created the fictional characters Mapp and Lucia |
BENSON |
| Fleet Street church whose tower supposedly inspired tiered wedding cakes |
St Bride's |
| Former stately home near the northern edge of Hampstead Heath |
Kenwood House |
| French-born composer Arthur ____’s best-known work is Pacific 231, an orchestral portrait of a steam engine |
HONEGGER |
| Governmental restriction of ideas, eg by censorship |
thought control |
| Gravesend has the world’s oldest surviving cast iron ____ |
PIER |
| Historically in England, the offence of supporting papal supremacy |
praemunire |
| In formal Christian worship, a singer of solo passages responded to by the choir or congregation |
CANTOR |
| In Latin, of sound mind |
compos mentis |
| Informally, one metaphorically “in another universe” |
space cadet |
