The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo 415

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“Thy fatal shafts ____ move, / I bow before thine altar, Love!” (Tobias Smollett) UNERRING
“What is ____ now is the peace of the world” (Woodrow Wilson, Feb 1918) at stake
1381 rising triggered by a move to collect unpaid poll tax Peasants' revolt
1979 film version of a Hardy novel TESS
1992 film which brought Sharon Stone international fame Basic Instinct
2023 film based on the 2005 book American Prometheus OPPENHEIMER
A pergola is a horizontal kind of ____ TRELLIS
A Qashqai or Juke Nissan car
A river in southern France; a lake in northern England TARN
A speculator who buys shares in new issues STAG
An archaic or dialect name for a fireplace INGLE
An attempt; to injure, in one way STAB
Archaic or literary term for a deep hole ABYSM
At ____ University in 1919, Alfred Zimmern became the world’s first professor of international politics ABERYSTWYTH
Author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley
Aylesbury, Maidstone and Trowbridge are ____s county town
Bajram Begaj is this European nation’s current president ALBANIA
Dido’s first and most successful album, released internationally in 2001 no angel
Ecumenical community in Burgundy, noted for music based on simple phrases often repeated many times Taize
EF ____ wrote the 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered SCHUMACHER
Explorer who completed the first traverse of the Northwest Passage solely by ship, in 1906 AMUNDSEN
Former BBC World Service headquarters Bush House
France’s largest city west of Paris TOULOUSE
Frank ____ won a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in From Here to Eternity SINATRA
Gallery with a huge collection of impressionist paintings Musee d'Orsay
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Genre which influenced panto and Punch and Judy commedia dell'arte
Hugh ____ was the Labour Party’s leader from 1955 until his death in 1963 GAITSKELL
In a common spelling, a low-growing evergreen perennial, often used in rockeries AUBRETIA
In a soap opera, Mrs ____ fatally choked on a macaroon OVERALL
In ____ means “at full length” extenso
Informally, an IT storage medium used since the 1950s mag tape
McCaig’s Tower, an unfinished monument, dominates the ____ skyline OBAN
Missouri-based NFL team, winners of four Super Bowls Kansas City Chiefs
Mythological hero whose most famous achievement was in a labyrinth THESEUS
Painter of The Singing Butler, a bestseller as a print Jack Vettriano
Platinum metal group element used in catalytic converters RHODIUM
Scottish and Irish informal term for foolish people EEJITS
Someone who is paid agio MONEYCHANGER
Something a theatre’s flies may contain SCENERY
Source of dust containing an estimated 22,000 tons of phosphorus added to Amazonian soil each year Sahara Desert
Technical term for your windpipe TRACHEA
The chemical informally called alcohol ETHANOL
The state of being fashionable CHICNESS
The ____’s newspaper archive can be viewed at Boston Spa British Library
Trademark for a surface coating used in textured form on many 1970s ceilings ARTEX
West African nation with a president’s son as president TOGO
William Walton’s Façade is based on poems by Edith ____ SITWELL
____ 1 was the USA’s first satellite, launched in 1958 EXPLORER
____ filler fountain pens can store more ink than most others PISTON
____’s “martyrs” were transported rather than killed TOLPUDDLE