The Independents Jumbo General Answer List – 24-September-2022
The Independents Jumbo General – Solution List – 24-September-2022
1.Nocturnal mammal of the order Pholidota PANGOLIN
2.American actress who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Boyhood PATRICIA ARQUETTE
3.Opera in three acts by Tchaikovsky based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin THE QUEEN OF SPADES
4.A reversible fabric, usually silk or linen, with a pattern woven into it DAMASK
5.Pale green transparent variety of the olivine chrysolite, used as a gemstone PERIDOT
6.The fourth largest city in Croatia OSIJEK
7.The weight that must be carried by a horse in a handicap race IMPOST
8.1994 Michael Apted film starring Jodie Foster in the title role NELL
9.A railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train LOCOMOTIVE
10.The supreme god of the ancient Greeks ZEUS
11.German golfer who won the US Masters in 1985 and 1993 BERNHARD LANGER
12.Name used in Australia and other places for the Syrah grape and wines SHIRAZ
13.Constellation that contains the first magnitude star Capella AURIGA
14.1998 Mimi Leder film starring Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman and Robert Duvall DEEP IMPACT
15.Country whose capital is Amman JORDAN
16.City in Volusia County, Florida, that is the headquarters of NASCAR and the Grand American Road Racing Association DAYTONA BEACH
17.River in Greek mythology which formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld STYX
18.Primate of the Cercopithecidae family of Old World monkeys DRILL
19.Danish king of England associated with a legendary story of controlling the waves CANUTE
20.Informal name for a military policeman REDCAP
21.A large juicy yellow-skinned citrus fruit of the Caribbean UGLI
22.Spanish city that hosts the main campus of the Charles III University of Madrid GETAFE
23.The capital of Hungary BUDAPEST
24.Skin disease involving inflammation of the sebaceous glands ACNE
25.Popular tourist town in Sicily approximately midway between Messina and Catania TAORMINA
26.Generic name for small handmade functional household objects made of wood TREEN
27.Reservoir on the Euphrates in Syria created by the construction of the Tabqa Dam LAKE ASSAD
28.Former Canadian international footballer who married Karren Brady in 1995 PAUL PESCHISOLIDO
29.US state known as the Hoosier state INDIANA
30.Earth’s southernmost continent ANTARCTICA
31.A popular British bidding system in bridge named after a London club ACOL
32.Term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan SAMURAI
33.Demi Moore’s first film as a director, a short starring her daughter Rumer Willis STREAK
34.Darts player nicknamed “The Crafty Cockney” ERIC BRISTOW
35.1953 musical by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin KISMET
36.Area on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City that was the birthplace of the Beat movement GREENWICH VILLAGE
37.In the Old Testament, the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau REBECCA
38.1972 Helen Reddy song that was the first number one on the Billboard chart by an Australian artist I AM WOMAN
39.Historically, the approximate area of land tillable by a yoke of oxen in one day. ACRE
40.Town in Suffolk that is the headquarters of British horseracing NEWMARKET
41.French actress born Françoise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris in 1932 ANOUK AIMEE
42.1980 single by Randy Crawford that reached number two in the UK chart ONE DAY I’LL FLY AWAY
43.A typewriter typesize having 12 characters to the inch ELITE
44.Writer known by the pen name Saki H H MUNRO
