“Guten ____” means “good evening” in German |
ABEND |
A type of waterproofed woollen fabric |
LODEN |
Actress who played Vicky in three films of the American Pie franchise |
Tara Reid |
Azalée the cow’s English counterpart in 7D |
ERMINTRUDE |
Band named after a character in the 1968 film Barbarella |
Duran Duran |
Boy and tiger duo created by cartoonist Bill Watterson |
Calvin and Hobbes |
Collectively, a ship’s sails |
CLOTH |
Colloquially, to improvise casually on a musical instrument |
NOODLE |
Darts player Bob ____ was known as the Limestone Cowboy |
ANDERSON |
David Mitchell’s character in the sitcom Peep Show |
Mark Corrigan |
Dzongkha is the official language of this Himalayan country |
BHUTAN |
Early echo sounder used to detect submarines |
ASDIC |
Football club based at Stark’s Park, Kirkcaldy |
Raith Rovers |
For want of anything better (French) |
faute de mieux |
Formal word meaning “edible” |
ESCULENT |
Harald V has been the king of this country since 1991 |
NORWAY |
In a common classical concert programme format, a work by Franz von Suppé is very likely to be the ____ |
OVERTURE |
In the nursery rhyme, ____ has far to go |
Thursday's child |
Informal name for the old British sixpence |
TANNER |
Ireland’s first female president |
Mary Robinson |
Joseph Conrad novel set in the fictional republic of Costaguana |
NOSTROMO |
Kurt Vonnegut novel which begins with “All of this happened, more or less” |
Slaughterhouse-Five |
Mixture in which foods are soaked before cooking |
MARINADE |
Nickname for road junctions in Colchester, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe and Swindon |
The Magic Roundabout |