The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 104
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “Mad Dan” ____, a character in The Goon Show | ECCLES |
| ‘Religion’s in the heart, not the ____’ (Douglas Jerrold) | KNEE |
| ‘They dined on mince and slices of quince, / Which they ate with a ____’ (Edward Lear) | runcible spoon |
| 1941 Disney animation whose protagonist’s only friend is a mouse called Timothy | DUMBO |
| 1987 legal drama film starring Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley | SUSPECT |
| 1997 historical drama starring Morgan Freeman | AMISTAD |
| A 100th anniversary | CENTENNIAL |
| A Manhattan made with Scotch instead of rye or bourbon | Rob Roy |
| A small tree with pale purple flowers | LILAC |
| A type of thick gruel | LOBLOLLY |
| Alternative name for the eleventh month of the French revolutionary calendar | fervidor |
| American Indian, the first to meet the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony | samoset |
| Australian state whose capital is Brisbane | QUEENSLAND |
| Author of The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| Automobile executive whose 1984 autobiography was a best-seller | Lee Iacocca |
| Bacteria which cause a particular lung disease | pneumococci |
| Capital of the East Flanders province of Belgium | GHENT |
| Column in a newspaper, by its chief writer | EDITORIAL |
| Compatriot team beaten by FC Porto in the 2011 Europa League final | BRAGA |
| Crime drama series whose central characters were Crockett and Tubbs | Miami Vice |
| Director of the 1971 film The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Enclosed saltwater area in which sea animals such as dolphins are kept and tamed | SEAQUARIUM |
| English cricketer who took his 400th Test wicket against New Zealand in March 2018 | Stuart Broad |
| Fictional captain, also known as Prince Dakkar, created by Jules Verne | NEMO |
| First wife of Henry VIII | Catherine of Aragon |
| Former BBC newsreader and presenter of the first two series of Top Gear | Angela Rippon |
| Herb used in Scandinavian and eastern European cuisine | DILL |
| In computing, a single instance of a repeated instruction | ITERATION |
| In Greek mythology, the last king of Troy | PRIAM |
| Influential blues guitarist, a long-standing collaborator of Beth Hart | Joe Bonamassa |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Jockey who won the 2016 Grand National on Rule The World | David Mullins |
| Marsh bird noted for its booming call | BITTERN |
| Members of one branch of Islam | SHIITES |
| Minister for the Olympics 2005-2010 | Tessa Jowell |
| Name of French origin for a horse-drawn hackney carriage | FIACRE |
| Nebraska’s largest city | OMAHA |
| Organisation headed by Audrey Azoulay and headquartered in Place de Fontenoy, Paris | UNESCO |
| Pharisee who helped prepare Christ’s body for burial after the crucifixion | NICODEMUS |
| Practical joker of German folklore, depicted in a Richard Strauss tone poem | Till Eulenspiegel |
| Richard ____ wrote Watership Down | ADAMS |
| Samuel Johnson’s Prince of Abissinia | RASSELAS |
| Sculpture by Auguste Rodin | The Thinker |
| Siamese cat with dark brown fur on face, paws, and tail | SEALPOINT |
| Significant escape of blood from the circulatory system | HAEMORRHAGE |
| Site of an infamous 1960 massacre in South Africa | sharpeville |
| South American rodent related to the guinea pig | CAVY |
| South Korean car manufacturer, defunct since 1999 | DAEWOO |
| Spanish city with a Burial of the Sardine festival on the Saturday after Easter | MURCIA |
| The garden where Jesus and his disciples slept the night before the crucifixion | GETHSEMANE |
| The Jewish Feast of Lots | PURIM |
| The plump, winged boy of renaissance and baroque art | PUTTO |
| The twin city of Saint Paul | MINNEAPOLIS |
| There are approximately 2025 yards in a ____ mile | NAUTICAL |
| Thin strip of wood often used in plastering | LATH |
| To believe, or to assume provisionally | SUPPOSE |
| Type of sun hat; an African antelope | TOPI |
| Workplace for some political journalists | press gallery |
| ____ I ruled Macedon from 413 to 399 BC | ARCHELAUS |
| ____ Upon Everything was a book with advice on topics such as ‘Invalid soup’, ‘To kill flies’, and ‘Charades’ | Enquire Within |
| ____… with Jools Holland, a BBC live music show | LATER |
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