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COMPLETE THE BRITISH TV PROGRAMME TITLE |
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In 2010 this governor did some moonlighting when he played Trench in "The Expendables" |
Schwarzenegger
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David Attenborough covers a rather important 2/3 of the globe: this "Planet" |
(Ken: About the oceans, it's called [*].)
Blue Planet
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From the Latin for "curve", they're the hollows at the front of the skull connecting to the nasal cavities |
sinuses
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After this component of coffee is absorbed, the liver turns it into paraxanthine & your blood pressure increases |
caffeine
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Demonic & cruel, so as to remind one of Satan |
diabolical
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Prep school kid leaves prep school, tools around New York, dreams of becoming the book's title |
[Bryce did not include the leading article in his response.]
The Catcher in the Rye
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It was the last name of New York's governor from 1983 to 1994 & in the next generation from 2011 to 2021 |
Cuomo
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Plotting to murder an ex-lover to protect your career is most definitely not an efficacious move; "A Very English" this |
Scandal
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The chief muscle used in breathing, it's dome-shaped & attached to the lower ribs |
the diaphragm
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It's a manual or electrical device used to pulverize your coffee beans that sounds like a dating app |
a grinder
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Variously applied to both rivers & termites, this adjective means below the Earth's surface |
subterranean
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Lawyer meets the title client at his castle; pal of lawyer's fiancee is murdered due to said client, whom the lawyer then kills |
(Ken: It's unconventional legal behavior, but this is [*] we're talking about.) [Laughter]
Dracula
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...Or g'bye; in July 2009 she unexpectedly resigned as Alaska's governor, you betcha! |
Palin
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The British get the idea it's time to leave India: "The Jewel in" this |
the Crown
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This adjective meaning very simple or very skinny is also the major body system that holds up all the others |
skeletal
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This word for a type of espresso drink comes from the name of an order of monks |
cappuccino
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Pythagoras believed in this; in "Twelfth Night", his view is summarized as "the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird" |
reincarnation
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Guy steals a new Russian submarine with some pals; Russia gets kinda displeased; the U.S. sends a CIA analyst to work it all out |
The Hunt for Red October
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She embraced the nickname "Big Gretch" given to her by Detroit rapper Gmac Cash |
(Gretchen) Whitmer
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Political satire about a TV news crew: "Drop the Dead" this equine associated with a U.S. political party since 1828 |
a donkey
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The white, fibrous tissue of the eye, the sclera extends from the optic nerve to this part at the front where focusing starts |
the cornea
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Typica & Bourbon are 2 varieties of this species of coffee, the world's most widely grown |
Arabica
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It's the study of substances like quartz & dolomite, including their distribution, identification & properties |
mineralogy
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Families gather, slips of paper are chosen, a black spot's on one, Tessie Hutchinson has a very bad day |
"The Lottery"
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In 2023, in Little Rock this former White House Press Secretary was inaugurated as the U.S.A.'s youngest serving governor |
(Sarah Huckabee) Sanders
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In the 1990s, five teens lived through difficulties both personal & political in a city in Northern Ireland, these "... Girls |
Derry Girls
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This shorter of the two forearm bones is the one on the thumb side |
(Alfred: What is the ulna?)
the radius
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17th century holy man Baba Budan is credited with smuggling coffee beans into India from Mocha in this country |
(Ken: [*] is right, well done.)
Yemen
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Fittingly, this word for foods that supposedly arouse desire comes from the name of a love goddess |
an aphrodisiac
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An orphan finds blacksmithing isn't for him, comes into some money & heads off to London to not blacksmith |
Great Expectations
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