The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 180

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1961 novel by 31D made into a 1996 film starring Paul Terry James And The Giant Peach
1964 western starring Audie Murphy as captain Jeff Stanton Apache Rifles
1976 comedy movie starring Burt Reynolds as an ex-con living in the Okefenokee Swamp on the borders of Florida and Georgia GATOR
1980s soap opera launched as a companion to Coronation Street Albion Market
A German “miss” FRAULEIN
A pastoral poem BUCOLIC
Actress who became a long-time mistress of Charles II Nell Gwyn
Archaic word meaning “in addition” or “to boot” WITHAL
Author of Tales of the Unexpected Roald Dahl
Author of the first Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 Andre Breton
Captain of the West Indies test side 2007-2010 Chris Gayle
Circle dances; simple songs with refrains ROUNDELAYS
Creator of Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett
Critically endangered amphibian species whose only natural habitat is Mexico City’s Lake Xochimilco AXOLOTL
Crustacean which climbs palm trees to eat coconuts robber crab
Denis ____ presented It’ll be Alright on the Night Norden
Description of the gospels other than John SYNOPTIC
Dutch footballer who managed Burton Albion, Queens Park Rangers, and Northampton Town Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Edvard Munch painting called, in his language, Skrik The Scream
Friends character played by Matt LeBlanc Joey Tribbiani
German mercenary soldier of the 16th century landsknecht
Grimsby Town FC are “The ____” MARINERS
In Greek myth, Aphrodite’s mortal lover ADONIS
Island on which Joe Rosenthal’s iconic flag-raising photograph was taken Iwo Jima
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Jan ____ has a very large cloud named after him OORT
Jodrell Bank Observatory’s main telescope is named after ____ Bernard Lovell
Mob rule OCHLOCRACY
Nationality after which red and white pigments are named CHINESE
North American term for a lively party; in plural form, a font consisting of symbols WINGDING
On Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumours, the first song written by Christine McVie Don't Stop
Open flan with savoury filling QUICHE
Originally, “to thrash”, now “to scold” LAMBAST
Refusal to attend Church of England services when it was required by law RECUSANCY
Sharpen, especially by rubbing on stone WHET
State capital of Tasmania HOBART
Surname of Norwegian rally driving brothers Petter and Henning solberg
That which scores four or five points in rugby TRY
The flightless Australian bird Dromaius novaehollandiae EMU
The most northwesterly point of mainland Britain Cape Wrath
The religious texts of Zoroastrianism AVESTA
The sort of bodies associated with a Channel 4 reality TV show EMBARRASSING
The United Principalities of ____ and Wallachia became Romania in 1866 MOLDAVIA
Third single from REM’s final studio album Collapse Into Now uberlin
Unsophisticated ARTLESS
Word for word (Medieval Latin) VERBATIM
____ gained attention as Seth Brundle in The Fly Jeff Goldblum
____ John ____ is a clothing brand sold exclusively by Debenhams rocha