The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 206

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“I maintain that the phrase, a ‘long poem’ is simply a flat ____” (Edgar Allan Poe) contradiction in terms
18th-century publication for which Benjamin Franklin adopted a pseudonym Poor Richards Almanack
2015 David Baldacci novel which introduced detective Amos Decker Memory Man
A brightly coloured tropical freshwater fish, often kept in aquariums TETRA
A co-star of 10D in the “Ocean’s” film franchise Brad Pitt
Abalone of the Channel Islands ORMER
Actor who played Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It Christopher Eccleston
Actor who played Terry Duckworth in Coronation Street Nigel Pivaro
Actress nominated for an Oscar for her first film role, Alexandra Feodorovna in Nicholas and Alexandra Janet Suzman
An artist’s stand EASEL
Another name for a cataract (optical) condition) pearl-eye
Another name for Alces alces, which in British English is sometimes called “elk” MOOSE
Band whose debut single Go Now was their only No 1 hit Moody Blues
British reggae band of the 1970s and early 1980s, originally fronted by Ted Dixon matumbi
Canvas canopies often attached to shop fronts or caravans AWNINGS
Clothing chain founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher GAP
Collective noun for owls PARLIAMENT
District of north London between New Southgate and Woodside Park Friern Barnet
English winner of the decathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Dean Macey
Former makers of bits, spurs and other small metalware (spelling with M) lorimers
Free of nervous agitation unflustered
Garden plant with pink flowers and silver woolly foliage rose campion
Ghostly SPECTRAL
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Large Pacific Ocean eel, with dark brown circles around most of the iris ringeye conger
Level 42’s first appearance on Top of the Pops was with this 1981 single Love Games
Name used in the US for the Electric Light Orchestra’s debut album, as a result of misunderstood phone call records No Answer
Nikolai ____ wrote Taras Bulba GOGOL
Obsessive self-centredness EGOMANIA
Path followed by an airborne body under the influence of forces including gravity TRAJECTORY
Pen named after its Hungarian designer BIRO
Play thought to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and George Wilkins Pericles Prince of Tyre
Pregnant, colloquially in the club
Scotland’s A70 road runs from Edinburgh to ___ AYR
Spanish cheese made with ewe’s milk MANCHEGO
Spanish tennis player who won two grand-slam doubles titles with Emilio Sanchez Sergio Casal
Stage name of the singer born Anna Mae Bullock Tina Turner
That which, in rugby union, is always worth seven points penalty try
The 1392 Statute of ____, limiting papal power in England, was later exploited by Henry VIII, eg against Wolsey praemunire
The Dying Swan was created for this ballerina Anna Pavlova
The largest province of South Africa Northern Cape
The lord chancellor is keeper of the ____ great seal
The most populous of New York City’s five boroughs BROOKLYN
Type of bridge restricted to pedestrian traffic ROPE
US actor who came to prominence as Dr Doug Ross in ER George Clooney
Vietnam’s capital HANOI
____ played Lorna Cole in two of the Lethal Weapon films Rene Russo