“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, ____ from giving us wordy evidence of the fact” (George Eliot) |
ABSTAINS |
“The ____ of his morals / Engag’d him in a hundred quarrels” (Jonathan Swift) |
STRICTNESS |
1985 film starring a lycanthropic Michael J Fox |
Teen Wolf |
American actor who won an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood |
Martin Landau |
Angry Young Man John Braine’s 1957 debut novel |
Room At The Top |
Breed of dog such as Blue Peter’s Shep |
border collie |
Castries is the capital of this island state |
Saint Lucia |
Chemist who, in 1991, became Britain’s first astronaut |
Helen Sharman |
Collection of writings central to Jewish law |
TALMUD |
Conductors used to make contacts in circuits |
ELECTRODES |
Country bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somaliland |
DJIBOUTI |
Darwin sailed on this ship in his first research voyage |
BEAGLE |
Decisive battle of the first English Civil War |
NASEBY |
Director and male star of Dances with Wolves |
Kevin Costner |
Drummer who plays on the song Seven Nation Army |
Meg White |
Egyptian deity depicted with the head of a jackal |
ANUBIS |
English county whose highest peak is Shining Tor |
CHESHIRE |
Fairy tale character who saves her brother by pushing a witch into an oven |
GRETEL |
Film adaptation of a Stephen King novel in which Cathy Bates plays James Caan’s number one fan |
MISERY |
Flat-bodied parasite that can grow to fifty feet long |
TAPEWORM |
Follow-up to the 1989 album The Stone Roses |
Second Coming |
German chemist Walther ____’s heat theorem is a partial statement of the third law of thermodynamics and won him a 1920 Nobel prize |
NERNST |
Gold coin featuring the likeness of the statesman whose actions were one cause of the Second Boer War |
KRUGERRAND |
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a very loud rock band fronted by Hotblack Desiato |
disaster area |