The Independents Jumbo General Answer List – 17-September-2022
The Independents Jumbo General – Solution List – 17-September-2022
1.The nearest planet to the sun in our solar system MERCURY
2.England football team manager between August 2006 and November 2007 STEVE MCCLAREN
3.Town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, that grew up round an abbey founded in 666 CHERTSEY
4.Margaret ___, English novelist whose elder sister is A S Byatt DRABBLE
5.Name of the final section of the River Alde in Suffolk, from just above Orford to the sea ORE
6.American jazz trumpeter and cornetist who played with Earl Hines, Clarence Williams, Bessie Smith, King Oliver and Chris Barber ED ALLEN
7.Small projection on the anterior edge of the wing of a bird, also called a bastard wing ALULA
8.1895 novel by Theodor Fontane whose title character is the 17-year-old daughter of a German aristocrat EFFI BRIEST
9.”Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre” by Claude Debussy LA MER
10.Children’s TV series, 1972-92, whose characters included Bungle, Zippy and George RAINBOW
11.Latin-American ballroom dance with small steps and swaying hip movements CHA-CHA-CHA
12.Drug commonly known as aspirin ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID
13.1938 ballet by Aaron Copland about an American frontier outlaw and gunman BILLY THE KID
14.Mexican boxer known as “El Alacrán” (the Scorpion) who was WBC Flyweight Champion 1969-70 EFREN TORRES
15.Italian word for hair CAPELLI
16.The collective bacteria and other microorganisms in an ecosystem FLORA
17.Turkey’s third most populous city, historically called Smyrna IZMIR
18.Former Labour Foreign Secretary who succeeded Roy Jenkins as leader of the SDP DAVID OWEN
19.A circular area, often containing a circle of stones or wooden posts, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages HENGE
20.1996 film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott for which Geoffrey Rush won a Best Actor Oscar SHINE
21.Department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France named after a river that runs through it YONNE
22.American boxer who lost his WBA lightweight title to Ray Mancini in 1982 ARTURO FRIAS
23.French river that is a right tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris MARNE
24.Daniele ___, Roma midfielder who won 117 caps for Italy between 2004 and 2017 DE ROSSI
25.A stand or frame of wood on which a coffin rests BIER
26.Reinforced piece of body armour designed to resist knife attacks STAB VEST
27.The daughter of Icarius in Greek mythology ERIGONE
28.1994 Woody Allen film starring John Cusack, Dianne Wiest and Chazz Palminteri BULLETS OVER BROADWAY
29.The capital of Pakistan ISLAMABAD
30.1997 novel by Edward Rutherfurd that spans two millennia LONDON
31.Chemical compound with two hydroxyphenyl functionalities BISPHENOL
32.Serious viral disease named after a village in Nigeria where it was first identified LASSA FEVER
33.Formula One team that won three Drivers’ Championships and one Constructors’ Championship with Jackie Stewart TYRRELL
34.Hydrolytic enzymes also known as endolysins or murein hydrolases LYSINS
35.In Norse mythology, the ash tree that was thought to overshadow the world YGGDRASIL
36.1974 Top Ten single by Rod Stewart FAREWELL
37.Horse that won the 1979 Grand National RUBSTIC
38.Album released by John Coltrane’s quartet in 1965 A LOVE SUPREME
39.2000 M Night Shyamalan film starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson UNBREAKABLE
40.Officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools, known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason LORD OF MISRULE
41.Rubens ___, Brazilian racing driver who competed in Formula One between 1993 and 2011 BARRICHELLO
42.The main railway station in Bangkok, Thailand HUA LAMPHONG
43.The largest city and municipality of Wallonia, Belgium CHARLEROI
44.The highest mountain in England SCAFELL PIKE
45.Former German monetary unit worth one hundredth of a Deutschmark PFENNIG
46.Oman, for example, or Darfur, before its incorporation into Sudan SULTANATE
47.Ancient settlement in the modern Turkish province of Hatay associated with a battle in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in 333 BC ISSUS
48.Jan Hendrik ___, Dutch astronomer who gave his name to a cloud of comets OORT
