“It’s a maxim not to be despised. ‘Though peace be made, yet it’s ____ that keeps peace?’” (Oliver Cromwell) |
INTEREST |
“La ____” is the Italian name for the first concerto in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons |
PRIMAVERA |
1999 film about derivatives broker Nick Leeson |
Rogue Trader |
2002 animated film featuring Manny, Sid and Diego |
ice Age |
A convulsive muscular twitch |
TIC |
A ____ is traditionally used to ease nettle stings |
dock leaf |
Ancient area including much of modern Ukraine |
SCYTHIA |
Anthem sung at every coronation of a British monarch since 1727 |
Zadok the Priest |
Archbishop of Canterbury who crowned Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation |
Geoffrey Fisher |
Author of An Inconvenient Truth |
Al Gore |
Before this time, archaically |
ERENOW |
Chest pain caused by a heart condition |
ANGINA |
Clerk, a friend of Nicholas Nickleby in the Dickens novel |
Newman Noggs |
Collectively, vehicles not stopping on a city’s roads |
through traffic |
Cross between buffalo and cow |
CATTALO |
Designer of the royal family’s most recent coronation outfits |
Norman Hartnell |
European space probe which investigated Halley’s comet in 1986 |
GIOTTO |
Fictional murderer whose pie-making partner in crime is Mrs Lovett |
sweeney todd |
First name of the former boxer known as The Real Deal |
EVANDER |
Former name of Sulawesi |
CELEBES |
Frankie Laine’s UK No 1 single at the time of the coronation |
I believe |
German city where Beck’s Beer is brewed |
BREMEN |
Group whose single Lonely This Christmas was the Christmas No 1 in 1974 |
MUD |
Horace poem also called The Epistle to the Pisones |
Ars Poetica |
In 1996, ____ received an award recognising her as the best-selling French language singer in history |
Celine Dion |