The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 016

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“Great” hostilities one hundred years ago World War One
A persistent preoccupation OBSESSION
Adult leader of a pack of Cub Scouts AKELA
Ancient port, originally on the mouth of the Tiber OSTIA
Army rank between colonel and major general BRIGADIER
Arturo ___, Italian conductor TOSCANINI
Brian in The Magic Roundabout SNAIL
Bronze representation of Helios completed by Chares of Lindos around 280BC COLOSSUS
Carry On star who appeared in Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne Kenneth Williams
Chinese system of callisthenics tai chi
Co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures Steven Spielberg
Dutch port, the birthplace of Erasmus ROTTERDAM
Epic novel about the Bezukhov, Bolkonsky and Rostov families War and Peace
Experts in training trees to create decorative shapes or animals topiarists
First property on the UK’s standard Monopoly board Old Kent Road
Form of pasta made in narrow strips TAGLIATELLE
Ground-breaking BBC TV interview programme presented by John Freeman Face To Face
Horse-racing parade rings PADDOCKS
Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh-based detective Inspector Rebus
Italian region whose provinces include Arezzo, Grosseto and Lucca TUSCANY
Juan Manuel ___, world champion F1 driver each year from 1954 to 1957 FANGIO
Jurisdiction of the chief justices of Jersey and Guernsey BAILIWICK
King of Arms whose jurisdiction includes England north of the Trent Norroy and Ulster
Knowledgeable in literature LETTERED
Liverpudlian 1960s music Mersey Beat
Moliere’s miser in L’Avare HARPAGON
Norfolk setting for Arthur Ransome’s child’s novel Coot Club The Broads
Old instruments of torture; boxes lined with metal spikes in which the prisoner was fastened Iron maidens
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One of Robert Catesby’s co-conspirators guy fawkes
Pop singer whose hits include All Shook Up and Return to Sender Elvis Presley
Public school which actors Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis and Eddie Redmayne attended Eton College
Ross Kemp’s role in EastEnders Grant Mitchell
Royal burgh in Fife, the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie DUNFERMLINE
Russian ballet dancer who frequently partnered Margot Fonteyn Rudolf Nureyev
Russian composer of Scheherazade and Sadko Rimsky-Korsakov
Sea creatures which, in medieval art, represented social love DOLPHINS
Shakespeare play with What You Will as an alternative title Twelfth Night
Sixth wife of Henry VIII catherine parr
Slang term for a pound NICKER
South African city besieged by the Boers for four months, 1899-1900 LADYSMITH
Star of Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em Michael Crawford
State capital of Kansas TOPEKA
Such plates are personalised registrations VANITY
Surrey town at the foot of the North Downs EWELL
Sweet white German wine from individually selected bunches of very ripe grapes AUSLESE
The cruellest month, according to TS Eliot APRIL
The first edited version of a film with scenes in sequence and the soundtrack synchronised Rough cut
The white poplar ABELE
The wild ass of Central Asia ONAGER
Usual name for Martin Luther King’s 1963 civil rights speech at the Lincoln Memorial I Have A Dream
Verdigris for example PATINA
Village on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula between Pwllheli and Abersoch llanbedrog
Waiting to be dealt with In the pipeline
___ Barlow played Mavis Wilton in Coronation Street THELMA
____ in Gaza, 1936 novel by Aldous Huxley EYELESS
____ Rock was a 1980s TV series with a cast of Muppet creatures FRAGGLE