The Times – Specialist – Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 412 March 3 2024 Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “It is more important that a proposition be ____ than it be true” (Alfred North Whitehead) | INTERESTING |
| “Qu’ils mangent de la ____” (Rousseau) | BRIOCHE |
| “The Water-____ ascended thrice / And gave his doleful warning” (Wordsworth) | WRAITH |
| “Thou can’st not say ____; never shake / Thy gory locks at me” (Macbeth) | I Did It |
| 1930 Grant Wood painting used in the opening titles of Desperate Housewives | American Gothic |
| 1979 date of Margaret Thatcher’s first election victory as a party leader | Third of May |
| 1990s BBC series in which Andrew Lincoln played Egg | This Life |
| 2006 dystopian film starring Hugo Weaving in a Guy Fawkes mask and Natalie Portman | V for Vendetta |
| A line like a contour, seen on some weather maps | ISOBAR |
| A reversal of this male forename is a mint brand | ROBERT |
| A term of address for a male priest | His Reverence |
| A tongue for use between speakers of other tongues | lingua franca |
| Acts limiting grain imports into Britain, repealed in 1846 | corn laws |
| Animal such as Albert II, the first primate in space | rhesus monkey |
| Another name for a monocle | EYEGLASS |
| Another term for entourages | RETINUES |
| Archbishop of Canterbury who wrote Cur Deus Homo | ANSELM |
| Australian city named after William IV’s consort | ADELAIDE |
| Author of Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Band who had a 1992 hit with Weather with You | Crowded House |
| Beef cut usually cooked slowly | SHIN |
| Brand name for a portable device used to treat anaphylaxis | EPIPEN |
| Bread manufacturer which Samuel L Jackson and Sylvester Stallone have advertised | warburtons |
| Character introduced in The Little White Bird | peter pan |
| French-derived term for obsessive passion | amour fou |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Garden plant; a male lover’s name in various old ballads | sweet william |
| How rapper Marshall Mathers is better known | EMINEM |
| Informal term for a barrister | BRIEF |
| John ____ gave his name to a list of aristocrats, most recently published (in its 150th edition) in 2019 | DEBRETT |
| Latin term meaning from the start | ab initio |
| Lead actress in the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive | Naomi Watts |
| Leader of the Chicago Outfit crime syndicate, 1925-31 | Al Capone |
| Like Manor House and Royal Oak, this tube station (on the Jubilee line) is named after a pub | Swiss Cottage |
| Medium in which James May worked to create a garden for the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show | PLASTICINE |
| Nickname of Brighton and Hove Albion | SEAGULLS |
| Otis the ____ was a late 1990s CBBC puppet presenter | AARDVARK |
| Plum-like fruit with a cultivar called Frogmore | DAMSON |
| Queen Boudicca’s tribe | ICENI |
| Seaweed-derived substance used instead of gelatine in vegan cooking | AGAR |
| Since 2021, the main host of BBC Woman’s Hour | Emma Barnett |
| Singer whose 1978 number one single asked listeners about his carnal desirability | Rod Stewart |
| Territory sold by Russia in 1867 to prevent it from falling into British hands in a future war | ALASKA |
| The Declaration of ____, sent to the pope by Sottish barons in 1320, asserted the antiquity of Scottish independence | ARBROATH |
| The trumpet manucode, for example | bird of paradise |
| The ____s at the base of Nelson’s Column were designed by Edwin Landseer | LION |
| To pitch tents | ENCAMP |
| Type of ham whose name means “dried beforehand” | PROSCIUTTO |
| US president between (Theodore) Roosevelt and Wilson | TAFT |
| Viola falls in love with this duke in Twelfth Night | ORSINO |
| Words after “Women” or “Shakespeare” in film titles | in love |