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- 3. A monumental 1819 romantic painting by Théodore Géricault depicting desperate shipwreck survivors.
- 6. The Shakespeare tragedy staged by Orson Welles in 1937 featuring contemporary fascist attire.
- 7. A circle of constant longitude, or an energy pathway in traditional Chinese medicine.
- 9. A wedge-shaped bone of the lower back formed by five fused vertebrae.
- 10. The influential American singer-songwriter who was a founding member of both The Byrds and CSN.
- 11. The collective name for the retaliatory 1942 German air strikes on historic English cities.
- 12. The French astronomer who compiled a famous 18th-century catalogue of deep-sky objects.
- 15. A parliamentary procedure term used in the UK for an 'allocation of time motion' to end debate.
- 16. The acclaimed English guitarist who co-found both the indie rock band The Smiths and Electronic.
- 20. The large spiral galaxy nearest to our own Milky Way, also designated as M31.
- 21. The exact angle in radians representing the argument of the complex number 1 + i√3.
- 23. A popular, compact 8mm motion picture film format introduced in the mid-1960s.
- 25. A psychological term coined by Erik Erikson for the failure to achieve ego integration in youth.
- 29. The West African nation that achieved independence from France in 1958 under President Ahmed Sékou Touré.
- 31. The 1944 New Hampshire conference that established both the World Bank and the IMF.
- 32. The 1954 Dylan Thomas radio play featuring the poison-obsessed character Mr. Pugh.
- 36. The West African republic led by poet-politician Léopold Sédar Senghor from 1960 to 1980.
- 38. The Yorkshire-born actor who portrayed Sal Paradise, Pinkie Brown, and singer Ian Curtis.
- 40. A Royal Mail steamship named after a major French river that sank off Salt Island in 1867.
- 41. The winged, scaled insects that make up the large biological order Lepidoptera.
- 42. A 1931 Francis Iles psychological crime novel about a doctor poisoning his wife.
- 44. The Charles Dickens novel featuring Tom Pinch that includes a satirical journey to America.
- 45. The anatomical name for the kneecap, which ossifies between the ages of three and six.
- 46. The skeletal structure of the head whose plates are fused together by fibrous tissues.
- 47. The most common film format, named for the exact width of its photographic strip.
- 48. The famous military achievements of the popular Roman general Germanicus.
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- 1. The reason why the celebrated heir Germanicus never ascended to the imperial throne.
- 2. A narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a doomed schooner off New England.
- 4. A common medium-gauge film format frequently used for television production and educational films.
- 5. The English musician best known as the bassist for the Britpop band Blur and member of Fat Les.
- 6. The Labour Prime Minister who had to secure a financial rescue package from the IMF in 1976.
- 8. The large vein carrying deoxygenated blood from the upper body into the heart's right atrium.
- 12. The notorious Roman emperor who was the son of the general Germanicus.
- 13. The tiny parasitic insect that links a rundown London cinema and a famous street market.
- 14. The nation led for over three decades by its first president, Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
- 17. The prominent journalist who has consistently won MMA Journalist of the Year since 2010.
- 18. The Austrian-born British economist who authored the classical liberal work The Road to Serfdom.
- 19. A member of the long-established wealthy ruling class families in ancient Rome.
- 22. The influential guitarist and songwriter who was a core member of both The Stone Roses and The Seahorses.
- 24. The legendary twin brothers and founders of Rome who were raised by a she-wolf.
- 26. A 19th-century High Church Anglican revival driven by Newmanites and Puseyites.
- 27. The rebellious baron who forced King Henry III to accept the Provisions of Oxford in 1258.
- 28. The positively charged electrode where chlorine gas is liberated during the electrolysis of potassium chloride.
- 30. The Stuart monarch who convened the third Exclusion Crisis parliament at Oxford in 1681.
- 33. A high-resolution, wide-gauge film format used for large-scale cinema projections.
- 34. According to tradition, the first High Priest to serve in King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.
- 35. The large marine mammals whose global stocks the I.W.C. was established to protect in 1946.
- 37. A contemporary arts centre in Bristol named after a famous 1434 double portrait by Jan van Eyck.
- 39. The specific name of the bright pointer star in Ursa Major located near galaxy M108.
- 43. The Roman emperor who was allegedly murdered with poisoned mushrooms by his wife Agrippina.
