The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 095

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“They were summoned from the hillside” is the first line of this 1914 song Keep the Home Fires Burning
1996 Formula One world champion Damon Hill
A 1985 TV advertising campaign for this Japanese company used a version of the song “’Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?” TOSHIBA
A langlaufer is a cross-country ____ SKIER
A magazine rifle or pistol, named after a German inventor MAUSER
A place setting at a restaurant table COVER
A scrap of food ORT
A small web-weaving mite, a leaf pest red spider
A ____ orange is a variety of apple BLENHEIM
Alban ____ based his first opera on an unfinished play by Georg Büchner, and did not complete his second opera BERG
Anvil-shaped bone of the middle ear INCUS
Architect who designed the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme Edwin Lutyens
Author of Some of Me Poems Pam Ayres
Blackpool Pleasure Beach roller coaster which opened in 1994 The Big One
Bond girl Plenty ____ featured in Diamonds Are Forever O'Toole
Cloud type with rounded heaps on a dark horizontal base CUMULUS
Company whose logo depicts two walking fingers YELL
Composer whose symphonies include the “Bear” and “Surprise” HAYDN
Confectionery trademark which is a boy’s name reversed trebor
Distance between a vehicle’s front and rear axles WHEELBASE
Driving game series launched on the PlayStation in 1997 Gran Turismo
Fabric from Angora goats MOHAIR
Game won by taking (or not taking) the last matchstick NIM
Glands at the root of the neck which become vestigial in adulthood THYMI
Husband of Muhammad’s daughter Fatima, later the fourth Muslim caliph, assassinated in 661 ALI
In a nervous state RATTLED
In Greek mythology, a water nymph — one of the 3,000 daughters of Tethys OCEANID
In Rugby, a foul play in which the ball is hit forwards knock-on
Island where the Greeks hid their fleet near the end of the Trojan War TENEDOS
Japanese farewell, which translates as “if it must be so” SAYONARA
Clues Answers
Mammal whose stomach is divided into four compartments RUMINANT
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are Canada’s ____ Provinces MARITIME
No 1 UK single for 2 Unlimited in 1993 No Limit
Opera performed most in recent Arena di Verona seasons AIDA
Outer layer of an embryo, which develops to form skin and nerves ECTODERM
Patrick Stewart's first film appearance as Captain Jean-Luc Picard was in ____ Star Trek Generations
Period of up to four weeks before Christmas ADVENT
Playwright who wrote The Rivals SHERIDAN
Political party whose president is Cyril Ramaphosa African National Congress
Psychologist and former FBI agent created by James Patterson Alex Cross
Ring-shaped moulding, as at the top of a column ANNULET
Roman emperor ____ Valerius Aurelius Constantinus is also known as Constantine the Great flavius
Sacred choral composition MOTET
Shout of approval CHEER
Status Quo’s first hit single was inspired by this artist L S Lowry
Strong masculine pride MACHISMO
Swiss tennis player who won the 2016 US Open Stan Wawrinka
Swollen lymph node in the armpit or groin BUBO
The first American woman in space (in 1983) Sally Ride
The only one of the “seven wonders” whose existence has never been proved Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The process of feeding data into a computer INPUT
The royal family usually attends the ____ Gathering on the first Saturday in September BRAEMAR
The three Major League Baseball teams named after birds include the Baltimore ____ ORIOLES
The tremolo arm of a guitar is also called a ____ bar WHAMMY
The world’s only alpine parrot, found in New Zealand KEA
The ____ Railway is a heritage line running from Whitby to Pickering North Yorkshire Moors
The ____, 1967 film with Jason Robards as Al Capone St Valentine's Day Massacre
Theatrical comedy by Moliere, set in the house of Orgon TARTUFFE
Usually hooded wicker basket, used as an infant’s bed BASSINET
____ is credited with the invention of the postage stamp Rowland Hill