| “It is more important that a proposition be ____ than it be true” (Alfred North Whitehead) |
INTERESTING |
| “Qu’ils mangent de la ____” (Rousseau) |
BRIOCHE |
| “The Water-____ ascended thrice / And gave his doleful warning” (Wordsworth) |
WRAITH |
| “Thou can’st not say ____; never shake / Thy gory locks at me” (Macbeth) |
I Did It |
| 1930 Grant Wood painting used in the opening titles of Desperate Housewives |
American Gothic |
| 1979 date of Margaret Thatcher’s first election victory as a party leader |
Third of May |
| 1990s BBC series in which Andrew Lincoln played Egg |
This Life |
| 2006 dystopian film starring Hugo Weaving in a Guy Fawkes mask and Natalie Portman |
V for Vendetta |
| A line like a contour, seen on some weather maps |
ISOBAR |
| A reversal of this male forename is a mint brand |
ROBERT |
| A term of address for a male priest |
His Reverence |
| A tongue for use between speakers of other tongues |
lingua franca |
| Acts limiting grain imports into Britain, repealed in 1846 |
corn laws |
| Animal such as Albert II, the first primate in space |
rhesus monkey |
| Another name for a monocle |
EYEGLASS |
| Another term for entourages |
RETINUES |
| Archbishop of Canterbury who wrote Cur Deus Homo |
ANSELM |
| Australian city named after William IV’s consort |
ADELAIDE |
| Author of Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| Band who had a 1992 hit with Weather with You |
Crowded House |
| Beef cut usually cooked slowly |
SHIN |
| Brand name for a portable device used to treat anaphylaxis |
EPIPEN |
| Bread manufacturer which Samuel L Jackson and Sylvester Stallone have advertised |
warburtons |
| Character introduced in The Little White Bird |
peter pan |
| French-derived term for obsessive passion |
amour fou |
