Irish name for a cudgel made of oak or blackthorn |
SHILLELAGH |
Island nation invaded by US forces in 1983 |
GRENADA |
ITV 1970s comedy classic with a black and white cat called Vienna |
Rising Damp |
Jordan’s capital city |
AMMAN |
Large furniture van |
PANTECHNICON |
Largest city in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino canton |
LUGANO |
Lighting control which varies brightness in a room |
Dimmer switch |
Members of an ascetic Jewish sect, active from approximately 200BC to 100AD |
ESSENES |
Mountainous “breathing space” created in 1951, which includes the Glyders and Cader Idris |
Snowdonia National Park |
Nation which had no national parks until 2002 |
SCOTLAND |
Of snow, descending rapidly down a mountainside |
avalanching |
Pips on the hour on radio or TV |
time signal |
Presenter of Only Connect on BBC2 |
Victoria Coren Mitchell |
Small shallow bowl for oenophiles |
TASTEVIN |
Something carried by a pageboy, traditionally |
TRAIN |
Sportsman such as Kevin Mayer or Roman Sebrle |
DECATHLETE |
Surname of a Manchester United goalkeeper; later the name of Chesney’s Great Dane in Coronation Street |
SCHMEICHEL |
The oldest city of the ancient Assyrian empire and its capital during the reign of Sennacherib, later destroyed in 612BC |
NINEVEH |
The world’s second-largest religion |
ISLAM |
The ____ Tapes, 2015 horror film about demonic possession |
VATICAN |
Third-largest city in Wales, near the mouth of the River Usk |
NEWPORT |
Unwanted noise on a phone or radio |
STATIC |
____ replaced Lagos as the capital of Nigeria in 1991 |
ABUJA |