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25/05/2015 Listomania 10 Lists each with 3 items reduced to initials.  Identify these 3 items in each List.

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Format index

 

1.

Best selling UK albums by year 1990-99

Year

Album title

Artist(s)

1990

...But Seriously

Phil Collins

1991

Stars

Simply Red

1992

Stars

Simply Red

1993

Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell

Meat Loaf

1994

Cross Road

BJ

1995

Robson and Jerome

Robson & Jerome

1996

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

1997

BHN

Oasis

1998

Talk on Corners

The Corrs

1999

Come on Over

ST

2.

Wimbledon Singles Quarter finalists 1995

(NB: this question is used as the example on the Listomania format index page)

Men

Ladies

Andre Agassi

Steffi Graf

Jacco Eltingh

Mary Joe Fernandez

Boris Becker

Jana Novotna

CP

Kimiko Date

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

GS

Goran Ivanisevic

Conchita Martinez

Shuzo Matsuoka

Brenda Schultz-McCarthy

Pete Sampras

ASV

 

3.

BAFTA Award for Best Actress 1980-89

Year

Actress

Programme

1980

Cheryl Campbell

TOY

1981

Peggy Ashcroft

Caught on a Train

1982

Judi Dench

A Fine Romance

1983

BR

Smiley’s People

1984

Coral Browne

An Englishman Abroad

1985

Peggy Ashcroft

The Jewel in the Crown

1986

Claire Bloom

Shadowlands

1987

Anna Massey

Hotel du Lac

1988

Emma Thompson

Tutti Frutti

1989

Thora Hird

ACCUTS

4.

Olivier Awards - Best New Musical

Winners & Nominees - 2014 & 2015

Year

Title

Music by...

2014W

TBOM

Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone

2014N

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

Marc Shaiman & Scott Whitman

2014W

Once

Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová

2014N

TSB

John Kander

2015W

Sunny Afternoon

Ray Davies

2015N

Beautiful

CK, GG, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weill

2015W

Here Lies Love

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim

2015N

Memphis

David Bryan

5.

I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here contestants

2013 & 2014

Year

Contestant

Contestant

2013

Kian Egan

Alfonso Ribeiro

2013

David Emanuel

Steve Davis

2013

Lucy Pargeter

Matthew Wright

2013

Joey Essex

Vincent Simone

2013

Amy Willerton

Laila Morse

2013

RA

Annabel Giles

2014

Carl "Foggy" Fogarty

Vicki Michelle

2014

Jake Quickenden

MB

2014

Melanie Sykes

Nadia Forde

2014

Edwina Currie

Jimmy Bullard

2014

TS

Craig Charles

2014

Kendra Wilkinson

Gemma Collins

6.

Best selling authors in the UK 2000-2009

Pos

Author

Pos

Author

1

J K Rowling

11

Bill Bryson

2

RH

12

Patricia Cornwell

3

Dan Brown

13

Jamie Oliver

4

Jacqueline Wilson

14

Daisy Meadows

5

Terry Pratchett

15

Ian Rankin

6

John Grisham

16

Julia Donaldson

7

Richard Parsons

17

AMS

8

Danielle Steel

18

Francesca Simon

9

James Patterson

19

Bernard Cornwell

10

EB

20

Roald Dahl

7.

List of Scottish islands by 2011 population size

Pos

Island

Pos

Island

1

Lewis & Harris

11

Benbecula

2

Mainland, Shetland

12

North Uist

3

Mainland, Orkney

13

Barra

4

Skye

14

Whalsay

5

Bute

15

Y

6

Arran

16

South Ronaldsay

7

Islay

17

West Burra

8

Mull

18

T

9

South Uist

19

Unst

10

GC

20

Westray

 

8.

European Footballer of the Year 1990-99

(surnames only)

Year

Winner

Runner up

1990

Lothar Matthäus 

Salvatore Schillaci

1991

Jean Pierre Papin

n/a

1992

Marco van Basten

Hristo S

1993

Roberto Baggio

Dennis Bergkamp

1994

Hristo Stoichkov

Roberto Baggio

1995

George Weah

Jürgen Klinsmann

1996

Matthias S

Ronaldo

1997

Ronaldo

Predrag Mijatović

1998

Zinedine Zidane

Davor Š

1999

Rivaldo

David Beckham

 

9.

Booker Prize winners 1995-2004

Year

Author

Book

1995

PB

The Ghost Road

1996

Graham Swift

Last Orders

1997

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

1998

Ian McEwan

Amsterdam

1999

J M Coetzee

Disgrace

2000

Margaret Atwood

TBA

2001

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang

2002

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

2003

DBC Pierre

Vernon God Little

2004

AH

The Line of Beauty

 

10.

Nominated for Best Picture Oscar - 2014

Film

Director

Birdman

Alejandro González Ińá

AS

Clint Eastwood

Boyhood

Richard Linklater

The Grand Budapest Hotel

WA

The Imitation Game

Morten Tyldum

Selma

Ava DuVernay

TTOE

James Marsh

Whiplash

Damien Chazelle