The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 358

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“He wants it to be a party of ____ and emancipation” (2015 Times article on David Cameron) Social reform
“Straight man” to her husband George Burns Gracie Allen
A ____ is a rod of dead cells, filled with keratin HAIR
Acronym for a project seeking distant intelligence, partly by use of a screensaver available 1999-2020 SETI
An excess of ____ acid and its salts in the bloodstream is the immediate effect of gout URIC
An unexpected challenge or disruption CURVEBALL
An ____ order allows unannounced searches and seizure of evidence Anton Piller
At some universities, a period of about four months SEMESTER
Comedian who voiced the bulldog in Churchill Insurance advertisements Bob Mortimer
Curved line used in musical notation SLUR
Dirk Pitt is a main character in many works by this US novelist Clive Cussler
Discipline added to the Winter Olympics in 1976 ice dance
Ed ____ was novelist Evan Hunter’s best-known pseudonym MCBAIN
Film editor who won an Oscar for her work on Star Wars Marcia Lucas
First evaluation of a new product alpha test
First name of the comedian who created Ali G and Borat SACHA
Forename used by British politician Robert Finlayson Cook ROBIN
Former Top Gear presenter known as Captain Slow James May
Former Yugoslav Republic whose capital was Skopje MACEDONIA
French fans often called ____ the Pelé of Rugby Serge Blanco
George Washington’s last home was Mount ____ VERNON
Hard to understand; extremely fine-grained IMPALPABLE
In a 15th-century conflict, William Neville (Earl of Kent) and John Howard (Duke of Norfolk) were ____ YORKISTS
In mathematics, that which contains no members empty set
In one context, the US equivalent of “boot” TRUNK
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In Scotland and the south-west, many people have a ____ Rhotic accent
Leader of prayers in a mosque IMAM
London’s Great ____of 1952 led to the Clean Air Act SMOG
Milton’s poem title Il Penseroso means “The ____” THINKER
Mystical Bible interpretation of the Jewish faith CABBALA
Nelson Mandela’s predecessor as South Africa’s president Frederik Willem de Klerk
Old European currency unit name meaning “little weight” PESETA
Old technical name for piano white notes from D to D Dorian mode
Political movement whose name means 'we ourselves' sinn fein
Rev W ____ wrote the first 26 books of The Railway series AWDRY
Rival of Adidas after Germany’s Dassler brothers fell out in 1948 PUMA
Semi-autobiographical Jules Verne novel about a perverse trip, unpublished until 1989 Backwards to Britain
South African province whose capital is Kimberley Northern Cape
Swiss fried potato cake ROSTI
That which “helicopters” down from a certain tree in autumn ash key
The evil hypnotist of Trilby by George du Maurier SVENGALI
The Minor or Lesser Doxology Gloria Patri
The ____ mainly follows the 180th meridian International Date Line
Type of cephalopod, long extinct except for a few coiled species nautiloid
Volcanic lake near Naples, described by Virgil as the entrance to the underworld AVERNUS
Where the sailor Tom Bowling has gone at the end of each verse in a folk song ALOFT
Word that may precede “goose”, “leopard” and “under” SNOW
____ are necessary to constitute crimes being committed actus rei
____ Town FC are “The Mariners” GRIMSBY
____’s home stadium has the highest elevation of any Premier League or Football League club West Bromwich Albion