The Independents Jumbo General Answer List – 3-September-2022
The Independents Jumbo General – Solution List – 3-September-2022
1.The first British aircraft to be designed specifically for the role of towing targets MILES MARTINET
2.Manufacturer of computers, printers, calculators etc, founded in Ivrea, Italy, in 1908 OLIVETTI
3.Detective created by Georges Simenon MAIGRET
4.A member of the aboriginal people of Japan AINU
5.American tennis player who won the US Open five times JIMMY CONNORS
6.The brightest star in the constellation Cygnus DENEB
7.Native ethnic group of the North Caucasus who refer to themselves as Ghalghai INGUSH
8.1991 film starring Hugh Grant as Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand IMPROMPTU
9.1987 film based on the life of Ritchie Valens LA BAMBA
10.Theoretical model of a vacuum named after the British physicist who first postulated it in 1930 DIRAC SEA
11.School of philosophy that grew from the discussions of a group called the “First Vienna Circle” LOGICAL POSITIVISM
12.Norwegian author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 KNUT HAMSUN
13.The third largest city in Lower Saxony, Germany OSNABRUCK
14.Craig ___, 1982 US Masters golf champion known as “The Walrus” STADLER
15.Country whose capital is Tirana ALBANIA
16.In digital circuits, a bistable multivibrator that is capable of serving as one bit of memory FLIP-FLOP
17.1969 Umberto Lenzi movie starring Carroll Baker and Lou Castel ORGASMO
18.1885 novel by the Sir Henry Rider Haggard KING SOLOMON’S MINES
19.River in the Haute-Marne and Marne départements of northeastern France that is a tributary of the Marne BLAISE
20.Genus of about 35 species of moss ARCHIDIUM
21.Board game patented by Charles Darrow in 1935 MONOPOLY
22.The uppermost and widest of the three sections of the hipbone ILIUM
23.American golfer who won the 1983 US Open LARRY NELSON
24.Ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki RAMAYANA
25.City in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea ZADAR
26.French city that was the scene of the coronation of most French monarchs REIMS
27.The fourth largest city of Sweden UPPSALA
28.Chemical element with the atomic number 60 NEODYMIUM
29.Chief of Staff in Ronald Reagan’s first administration and in the final year of the administration of George H W Bush JAMES BAKER
30.Nontechnical name for the nares NOSTRILS
31.Szymon ___, Polish athlete who was men’s hammer champion at the 2000 Olympics ZIOLKOWSKI
32.A young swan CYGNET
33.Ron ___, Dutch international centre-back at Aston Villa from 2012 to 2015 VLAAR
34.Hypothetical spherical area of comets which may lie nearly a light-year from the sun OORT CLOUD
35.Basalt slab discovered in 1799 that provided the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian texts ROSETTA STONE
36.Italian car-manufacturing company founded in Modena in 1959 DE TOMASO
37.Song by Gerry Goffin and Carole King that gave The Drifters a number 5 hit in the U.S. in 1962 UP ON THE ROOF
38.1961 number one hit for the Everly Brothers WALK RIGHT BACK
39.___ Brewster, member of the England squad which won the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup who joined Sheffield United from Liverpool in 2020 RHIAN
40.1994 Green Day single that reached number 6 in the UK chart BASKET CASE
41.2nd-century Greek physician, anatomist and physiologist who codified existing medical knowledge GALEN
42.Otto von ___, statesman nicknamed “The Iron Chancellor” BISMARCK
43.Stand-up comedian and actor attacked by Will Smith at the Academy Awards ceremony in 2022 CHRIS ROCK
44.An appendage on certain seeds, such as those of the yew and nutmeg ARIL
45.T Rex’s second UK number one single GET IT ON
46.Caribbean island whose chief town is Oranjestad ARUBA
47.A vitreous or glossy coating on ceramics GLAZE
48.The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet SIGMA
49.A star-shaped figure formed by extending the sides of a regular pentagon to meet at five points PENTAGRAM
