The Independents Jumbo General Answer List – 22-October-2022
The Independents Jumbo General – Solution List – 22-October-2022
1.Benefit an employer must provide for staff having time off work due to illness STATUTORY SICK PAY
2.Scottish singer born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie LULU
3.Song that gave The Drifters a hit in 1963 and was a 1978 hit for George Benson ON BROADWAY
4.In cricket, a run scored other than by hitting the ball with the bat EXTRA
5.England football manager for 67 days in 2016 SAM ALLARDYCE
6.French former cross-country skier who won the Tour de France in 1967 ROGER PINGEON
7.A constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way CYGNUS
8.Golfer who became the oldest ever US Open champion in 1990 at the age of 45 HALE IRWIN
9.Thickening/gelling agent, composed primarily of benzene and polystyrene, mixed with gasoline or a similar fuel for use in military operations NAPALM-B
10.Mixture of sodium bicarbonate, starch and one or more slightly acidic compounds, such as cream of tartar BAKING POWDER
11.Thracian slave who led a revolt of gladiators against Rome SPARTACUS
12.Large complex musical keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by means of a number of pipes arranged in sets or stops, supplied with air from a bellows ORGAN
13.French port whose name Queen Mary declared would be found written on her heart when she died CALAIS
14.The first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute BETTE DAVIS
15.In music, a symbol denoting a sharp, flat, or natural that is not a part of the key signature ACCIDENTAL
16.Government grant to an inventor giving him sole rights for a limited period PATENT
17.German princes entitled to be involved in choosing the Holy Roman Emperor ELECTORS
18.1996 romantic comedy starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo TIN CUP
19.Topmost structural member of a column found in Byzantine architecture BASKET CAPITAL
20.A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere ICE AGE
21.Historic seat of the ancient Irish kings in County Meath TARA
22.The capital of Togo LOME
23.Former county town of Meath, home to the largest Cambro-Norman castle in Ireland TRIM
24.The capital of The Gambia BANJUL
25.An open sore in an area of the gastrointestinal tract PEPTIC ULCER
26.Another name for a snake, from its suborder OPHIDIAN
27.The seventh month of the year in the Jewish calendar TISHRI
28.The largest island of the Inner Hebrides SKYE
29.Philippe ___, French marshal who was Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944 PETAIN
30.A nontechnical name for miliaria PRICKLY HEAT
31.All that can be seen at any given moment FIELD OF VISION
32.American actress born Betty Joan Perske in 1924 LAUREN BACALL
33.Genus of about 390 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae ERIGERON
34.A formal speech or piece of writing praising a person or thing EULOGY
35.Another name for the four-clawed gecko BUTIKI
36.Album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions recorded in Nashville in 1981 ALMOST BLUE
37.Handsome youth in Greek mythology who was loved by Aphrodite ADONIS
38.Section of the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand stretching from the Mahia Peninsula in the northeast to Cape Kidnappers/Te Kauwae-a-Maui in the southwest HAWKE BAY
39.The second President of the United States JOHN ADAMS
40.District of central London formerly famous for its fruit, vegetable and flower market COVENT GARDEN
41.1967 Top 10 hit for Donovan MELLOW YELLOW
42.Actress who played M in eight James Bond films between 1995 and 2015 JUDI DENCH
43.1991 film, loosely based on the novel of the same name by E L Doctorow, starring Dustin Hoffman as gangster Dutch Schultz BILLY BATHGATE
44.Small genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Cistaceae, native to North America HUDSONIA
45.Pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto PABLO NERUDA
46.American TV series (2004-10) about the survivors of a plane crash LOST
47.Actor born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in 1933 MICHAEL CAINE
48.Carnivorous aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia BLADDERWORT
49.A French silver coin of the 16th century TESTON
