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There are 3 separate sets of initial(s) per statement and in each statement at least one of the sets includes a word for a number between one and ten (NB: each number is used just once).

To check you've got everything right the differences between each of the question numbers and the number embedded in its related answer should add up to 48.

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Format index

1.

1964: BFS includes EDAW written BJLAPM

Beatles for Sale;

Eight Days a Week;

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

2.

1967: Start of NAT with hosts ABAAG reading HBBBB

News at Ten;

Alastair Burnet and Andrew Gardner;

eadlines between Big Ben’s bongs

3.

1553: LJG(‘TNDQ’) proclaimed SBETS on his D

Lady Jane Grey (‘The Nine Day Queen’);

successor by Edward the Sixth;

deathbed

4.

1937: DGHSBSAD (from SWATSD) perform WWYW

Doc Grumpy Happy Sleepy Bashful Sneezy and Dopey;

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;

Whistle While You Work

5.

1975: JNALF star in OFOACN based on TNBKK

Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher;

One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest;

the novel by Ken Kesey

6.

1816: TKOTTS, with its CIN, is formed – it lasts until its MWTKOI in 1861

The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies;

capital in Naples;

merger with the Kingdom of Italy

7.

1960: RNFOS helps him to lose TFTPD to JFK

Richard Nixon’s five o’clock shadow;

first televised presidential debate;

John F Kennedy

8.

1967: ICTGH from S during TSDW

Israel captures the Golan Heights;

Syria;

The Six Day War

9.

1844: APAAD heroes of TTMBAD declare “TPU,UPT”

Athos Porthos Aramis and d’Artagnan;

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas;

“tous pour un, un pour tous”

10.

2005: JB telling the SOTFS opens OB

Jersey Boys;

story of The Four Seasons;

on Broadway