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31/08/2015 Listomania 10 Lists each with 3 items reduced to initials.  Identify these 3 items in each List.

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1.

Graham Greene novels

Year

Title

Year

Title

1929

The Man Within

1951

The End of the Affair

1930

The Name of Action

1955

The Quiet American

1931

Rumour at Nightfall

1955

Loser Takes All

1932

Stamboul Train

1958

Our Man in Havana

1934

It’s a Battlefield

1960

A Burnt-out Case

1935

England Made Me

1966

The Comedians

1936

A Gun for Sale

1969

Travels with My Aunt

1938

Brighton Rock

1973

The Honorary Consul

1939

 

The Confidential Agent

1978

 

The Human Factor

1940

 

The Power and the Glory

1980

 

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

1943

The Ministry of Fear

1982

Monsignor Quixote

1948

 

The Heart of the Matter

1985

 

The Tenth Man

1949

 

The Third Man

1988

 

The Captain and the Enemy

2.

Main cast members in TV's Are You Being Served?

Character

Played by

Mrs Slocombe

Molly Sugden

Mr Humphries

John Inman

"Captain" Peacock

Frank Thornton

Miss Brahms

Wendy Richard

Mr Grainger

Arthur Brough

Mr Rumbold

Nicholas Smith

Mr Lucas

Trevor Bannister

"Young" Mr Grace

Harold Bennett

Mr Harman

Arthur English

3.

Gilbert & Sullivan's most popular comic operas

Opera - main title

Opera - alternative title

H.M.S. Pinafore

Lass That Loved a Sailor

The Pirates of Penzance

The Slave of Duty

Patience

Bunthorne's Bride

Iolanthe

The Peer and the Peri

Princess Ida

Castle Adamant

The Mikado

TheTown of Titipu

Ruddigore

The Witch's Curse

The Yeomen of the Guard

Merryman and his Maid

The Gondoliers

The King of Barataria

Utopia, Limited

The Flowers of Progress

4.

Olympic 100m Champions 1976-2012

Year

Venue

Men's

Women's

1976

 

Montreal

Hasely Crawford

Annegret Richter

1980

 

Moscow

Allan Wells

Lyudmila Kondratyeva

1984

LA

Carl Lewis

Evelyn Ashford

1988

 

Seoul

Carl Lewis

Florence Griffith-Joyner

1992

Barcelona

Linford Christie

Gail Devers

1996

Atlanta

Donovan Bailey

Gail Devers

2000

Sydney

Maurice Greene

n/a

2004

Athens

Justin Gatlin

Yulia Nestsiarenka

2008

Beijing

Usain Bolt

Shelly-Ann Fraser

2012

London

Usain Bolt

Shelly-Ann Fraser

5.

End points of British Motorways - M1 to M11

Motorway

From

To

M1

London - Hendon

Leeds

M2

Strood

Faversham

M3

London - Sunbury

Southampton

M4

London - Chiswick

Swansea

M5

West Bromwich

Exeter

M6

Rugby

Gretna

M6 (toll)

Coleshill

Cannock

M8

Edinburgh

Langbank

M9

Edinburgh

Dunblane

M11

London - Woodford

Cambridge

 

6.

Prime Ministers of Israel

Years

Name

Years

Name

1948-54

1955-63

David Ben-Gurion

1983-84

1986-92

Yitzhak Shamir

1954-55

Moshe Sharett

1984-86

1995-96

Shimon Peres

1963-69

Levi Eshkol

1996-99

2009-

Benjamin Netanyahu

1969-74

Golda Meir

1999-01

Ehud Barak

1974-77

1992-95

Yitzhak Rabin

2001-06

Ariel Sharon

1977-83

Menachem Begin

2006-09

Ehud Olmert

7.

Best selling albums in the UK in the 1990s

 

Album

Artist

1

(What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Oasis

2

Stars

Simply Red

3

Spice

Spice Girls

4

Talk on Corners

The Corrs

5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

6

Robson & Jerome

Robson & Jerome

7

The Immaculate Collection

Madonna

8

Urban Hymns

The Verve

9

Gold: Greatest Hits

ABBA

10

Falling into You

Céline Dion

8.

Liverpool FC Club Captains 1959 onwards

Years

Captain

Years

Captain

1959-60

Ronnie Moran

1989-90

Alan Hansen

1960-61

Dick White

1990-91

Steve Nicol

1961-70

Ron Yeats

1991-93

Mark Wright

1970-73

Tommy Smith

1993-96

Ian Rush

1973-79

Emlyn Hughes

1996-97

John Barnes

1978-78

Kenny Dalglish

1997-99

Paul Ince

1979-81

Phil Thompson

1999-02

Jamie Redknapp

1982-84

Graeme Souness

2000-01

Robbie Fowler

1984-85

Phil Neal

2000-03

Sami Hyypia

1985-88

Alan Hansen

2003-15

Steven Gerrad

1988-89

Ronnie Whelan

2015-

Jordan Henderson

 

9.

Episode titles: Blackadder the Third / Goes Forth

Blackadder the Third

Episode titles

Blackadder Goes Forth

Episode titles

Dish and Dishonesty

Captain Cook

Ink and Incapability

Corporal Punishment

Nob and Nobility

Major Star

Sense and Senility

Private Plane

Amy and Amiability

General Hospital

Duel and Duality

Goodbyeee

10.

Busiest London Underground Stations

 

Station

 

Station

1

Oxford Circus

10

Paddington

2

King’s Cross/St Pancras

11

Leicester Square

3

Waterloo

12

Piccadilly Circus

4

Victoria

13

Euston

5

London Bridge

14

Green Park

6

Liverpool Street

15

Tottenham Court Rd

7

Stratford

16

South Kensington

8

Bank and Monument

17

Holborn

9

Canary Wharf