GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Which entertainer (Sir Harry ___) was called “Scotland’s greatest ever ambassador” by Sir Winston Churchill? (6) 8 What is a sheen on furniture produced by age and polishing? (6)

10 Which Italian discovered the laws governing falling bodies and projectiles? (7) 11 Which river is Europe’s longest? (5)

12 What is the smallest unit of a chemical element that can exist? (4)

13 What 17th Century term of endearment later became a pet name for a rabbit? (5) 17 What is chopped hay and straw used as fodder? (5)

18 What is stored in the gall bladder? (4) 22 What worn thing is a gauntlet? (5)

23 What is someone who steals livestock? (7)

24 What are the female organs of a flower? (6)

25 Which handsome youth was loved by Aphrodite? (6)

DOWN

1 What is celebrated every June 14 in the US? (4,3)

2 What is a vertical bar between panes in a window? (7)

3 A carillon is a set of what? (5)

4 What is someone newly rich or famous, but without social acceptance? (7)

5 What metal pot is used for boiling water over a campfire? (5)

6 The people of which country called their homeland Nihon? (5)

9 What cheese is ripened in large, damp, limestone caverns in central France? (9)

14 What is the state capital of Arizona? (7) 15 What are the spiral grooves on the inside of a gun barrel? (7)

16 From 1866 to 1969, people with which disease were forced to live on Hawaii’s Molokai Island? (7)

19 Where is Lake Nasser? (5)

20 What did Douglas Engelbart invent, making computers much easier to operate? (5)

21 What are an actor’s words for the audience’s ears only? (5)