GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Whose ashes were dumped in an East German river in 1970 by Russian agents? (5,6)

8 What are bundles of reaped cornstalks? (7) 9 Who (Andrew ___) played Manuel in Fawlty Towers? (5)

10 At 5600m, Mt Demavend is the highest peak of which country in the Middle East? (4) 11 On which record label did Frank Sinatra record from 1953 to 1962? (7)

12 What is a small island in a river? (3)

13 What is a religious image typically painted on a small wooden panel in an Eastern Church? (4)

15 What is a former name of Thailand? (4) 17 What is a habitual or chronic drunkard? (3)

19 What type of beans are used for tinned baked beans? (7)

20 Hautbois is French for which musical instrument? (4)

23 The hickory tree produces what edible nuts? (5)

24 What are place names derived from the names of real or mythical people? (7)

25 Which fictional horse began life as Darkie? (5,6)

What make of car had models Somerset, Cambridge and Westminster? (6)

2 A libretto is the text of what? (5)

3 How many senses do we have? (4)

4 What type of creature makes up the largest class of the phylum Arthropoda? (6)

5 What bugle call is sounded at military funerals? (4,4)

6 What soft Italian cheese is used in making ravioli and gnocchi? (7)

7 Deposits of what dark, volcanic rock sometimes form columns? (6)

12 What snake is also called the great water boa? (8)

14 What type of pipe did Huckleberry Finn smoke? (7)

16 Who composed the piece nicknamed the “Minute Waltz”? (6)

17 What is to run naked through a public place? (6)

18 Which river reaches the sea at Liverpool? (6)

21 In the southern US, what is a marshy tributary of a river? (5)

22 Which city was first to reach a population of one million people? (4)