In the annual 14km race up and down this mountain, the record time is Kenny Stuart’s 1:25:34 in 1984 |
Ben Nevis |
Influential dandy who was a favourite of George IV in his days as Prince of Wales |
Beau Brummell |
Informally, one’s sternum |
BREASTBONE |
John Steinbeck novella about migrant ranch workers |
of mice and men |
Judith Keppel announced her retirement from this quiz team last October |
EGGHEADS |
La ____ est la structure la plus haute de Paris |
Tour Eiffel |
Male successful defender of the Olympic 1500m title |
Sebastian Coe |
Name for a Second World War German POW camp officer |
GOON |
Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups are the Hausa, ____ and Igbo |
YORUBA |
Old-fashioned term describing a fainting person |
ASWOON |
Russian composer Alexander ____ associated musical keys with colours |
SCRIABIN |
Shipyard electrician, the 1983 Nobel peace prize winner |
Lech Walesa |
Structures like gazebos, seen in some parks and squares |
BANDSTANDS |
Symbol representing high quality or good behaviour |
gold star |
The sailing class in which Ben Ainslie won three of his Olympic gold medals |
FINN |
To become inflexible in habits or attitudes |
OSSIFY |
Traditional trading vessel in East African or Arabian waters |
DHOW |
TV show first broadcast in 1975, once called the “Z-Cars of nursing” |
ANGELS |
____ acid is used in making Prozac and Teflon |
hydrofluoric |
____ on Television introduced western viewers to the Japanese show Endurance |
Clive James |
____ played Dorcas Lane in Lark Rise to Candleford |
Julia Sawalha |
____ played Hari Kumar in The Jewel in the Crown |
Art Malik |
____ rocks are derived from magma cooled below ground |
PLUTONIC |
____ Zebra was a 1968 film of an Alistair MacLean thriller |
ice Station |