The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 302

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“Never to be forgotten, that first long secret drink of golden fire” starts a key moment in this autobiographical book cider with rosie
“Numerous are the ____ chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers” (Einstein) ACADEMIC
A follower of John Wycliffe LOLLARD
A knack for making money easily Midas touch
Actress who gained recognition for her role in And God Created Woman Brigitte Bardot
Adventurer who appeared in 13 H Rider Haggard novels Allan Quatermain
Ballet dancer Wayne Sleep set a world record with an ____-douze on TV in 1973 ENTRECHAT
Big cat, native to the Indian subcontinent Bengal tiger
Boxer who described his sport as “the toughest and loneliest sport in the world” Frank Bruno
Capital of the Philippines MANILA
Chemical used in Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War agent orange
Cold sea-mist of the east coast of England or Scotland HAAR
Creator of the character Bridget Jones Helen Fielding
Either of two Muslim festivals also called Bairam EID
Excavator with buckets pulled by wire cables DRAGLINE
Head of state of Barbados, replacing Queen Elizabeth II on November 30 2021 Sandra Mason
In gardening, heather ERICA
In Roman Catholicism, a saint’s rosary is a second-class ____ RELIC
In Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, two ____s fly overhead just before Siegfried is killed RAVEN
Investors who deliberately go against where the “smart money” supposedly should be contrarians
Japan, in Japan NIPPON
Local name for a European waterway associated with a particular wine Rio Douro
Noel Coward play whose name comes from a song in Twelfth Night Present Laughter
Official country retreat of the US president Camp David
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On Mars in April 2021, Ingenuity, a robotic ____, made the first powered controlled extraterrestrial flight by an aircraft HELICOPTER
One 3600th of a degree SECOND
One name for the northernmost town of the United States BARROW
One who forms or joins a usually temporary political alliance coalitioner
Punk band the ____ Column were one of the first acts signed by Tony Wilson’s Factory Records durutti
Required by custom or etiquette de rigueur
Rosalind Franklin made important contributions to the discovery of this molecule’s structure DNA
Rulers, especially hereditary ones DYNASTS
Scientists investigating possible life on other planets exobiologists
Someone or something reducing the severity of a situation MITIGATOR
Surname of the author of Doctor Zhivago PASTERNAK
Sweden’s “equivalent” of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Anders Celsius
Technical term for being buried alive vivisepulture
The Latin ____ judice means “before a judge” coram
The Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium Menin Gate
The New York coffee house in Friends Central Perk
The only Dutch player to be inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame Dennis Bergkamp
The phylum to which humans belong CHORDATA
The ____s of bonnie Doon are one of its fresh and fair features in a Robert Burns song BRAE
Three-way, as in government TRIPARTITE
To drag oneself or an object with difficulty (variant spelling) SCHLEPP
Welsh comedian who was DJ Mike Smash alongside Harry Enfield as Dave Nice Paul Whitehouse
____ are sometimes mistaken for crocs GATORS
____ zoster is the technical name for shingles HERPES