|
1. |
|
Cricketers
with 300 or more wickets (as at Sept 2015) |
|
Wkts |
Test
bowler |
Wkts |
Test
bowler |
|
800 |
Muttiah Muralitheran |
376 |
Malcolm Marshall |
|
708 |
Shane Warne |
373 |
Waqar Younis |
|
619 |
Anil Kumble |
362 |
Imran Khan |
|
563 |
Glenn McGrath |
362 |
Daniel Vettori |
|
519 |
Courtney Walsh |
355 |
Dennis Lillee |
|
434 |
Kapil Dev |
355 |
Chaminder
Vaas |
|
431 |
Riichard
Hadlee |
330 |
Allan Donald |
|
421 |
Shaun
Pollock |
325 |
Bob Willis |
|
417 |
Harbhajan Singh |
311 |
Zaheer Khan |
|
414 |
Wasim Akram |
310 |
Brett Lee |
|
413 |
James Anderson |
309 |
Lance Gibbs |
|
405 |
Curtly Ambrose |
308 |
Stuart Broad |
|
402 |
Dale Steyn |
307 |
Fred Trueman |
|
390 |
Makhaya Ntini |
306 |
Mitchell Johnson |
|
383 |
Ian Botham |
|
|
|
2. |
|
Best
Picture Oscar nominations 2014 & 2015 |
|
2014 |
2015 |
|
12 Years a Slave |
Birdman |
|
American Hustle |
American Sniper |
|
Captain Phillips |
Boyhood |
|
Dallas Buyers Club |
The Grand Budapest Hotel |
|
Gravity |
The Imitation Game |
|
Her |
Selma |
|
Nebraska |
The Theory of Everything |
|
Philomena |
Whiplash |
|
The Wolf of Wall
Street |
|
|
|
3. |
|
US Vice
Presidents since 1945 |
|
From |
Vice-President |
From |
Vice-President |
|
1945 |
Harry Truman |
1974 |
Nelson Rockefeller |
|
1949 |
Alben Barkley |
1977 |
Walter Mondale |
|
1953 |
Richard Nixon |
1981 |
George Bush |
|
1961 |
Lyndon Johnson |
1989 |
Dan Quayle |
|
1965 |
Hubert Humphrey |
1993 |
Al Gore |
|
1969 |
Spiro Agnew |
2001 |
Dick Cheney |
|
1973 |
Gerald Ford |
2009 |
Joe Biden |
|
4. |
|
John le Carré novels (at Sept
2015) |
|
Title |
Title |
|
Call for the Dead |
A Secret Pilgrim |
|
A Murder of
Quality |
The Night Manager |
|
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
Our Game |
|
The Looking Glass War |
The Tailor of
Panama |
|
A Small Town in Germany |
Single and
Single |
|
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover |
The Constant
Gardener |
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
Absolute Friends |
|
The Honourable
Schoolboy |
The Mission Song |
|
Smiley’s People |
A Most Wanted Man |
|
The Little Drummer Girl |
Our Kind of Traitor |
|
A Perfect Spy |
A Delicate Truth |
|
The Russia House |
|
|
|
5. |
|
End points of UK single
digit ‘A’ Roads |
|
Road |
From |
To |
|
A1 |
London |
Edinburgh |
|
A2 |
London |
Dover |
|
A3 |
London |
Portsmouth |
|
A4 |
London |
Avonmouth |
|
A5 |
London |
Holyhead |
|
A6 |
Luton |
Carlisle |
|
A7 |
Edinburgh |
Carlisle |
|
A8 |
Edinburgh |
Greenock |
|
A9 |
Falkirk |
Scrabster |
|
6. |
|
Last Night of the Proms
Conductors (at Sept 2015) |
|
First |
Conductor |
First |
Conductor |
|
1895 |
Henry Wood |
1987 |
Mark Elder |
|
1945 |
Adrian Boult |
1988 |
Andrew Davis |
|
1945 |
Basil Cameron |
1989 |
John Pritchard |
|
1945 |
Constant
Lambert |
1993 |
Barry Wordsworth |
|
1947 |
Malcolm
Sargent |
2001 |
Leonard Slatkin |
|
1967 |
Colin
Davis |
2005 |
Paul Daniel |
|
1973 |
Norman
del Mar |
2007 |
Jiri Belohlavek |
|
1974 |
Charles
Groves |
2008 |
Roger Norrington |
|
1977 |
James
Loughran |
2009 |
David Robertson |
|
1980 |
Charles
Mackerras |
2011 |
Edward Gardner |
|
1985 |
Vernon
Handley |
2013 |
Marin Alsop |
|
1986 |
Raymond
Leppard |
2014 |
Sakari Oramo |
|
|
7. |
|
Stations on Manchester to
Chester Railway line |
|
Station |
Station |
|
Manchester Piccadilly |
Plumley |
|
Stockport |
Lostock
Gralam |
|
Navigation
Road |
Northwich |
|
Altrincham |
Greenbank |
|
Hale |
Cuddington |
|
Ashley |
Delamere |
|
Mobberley |
Mouldsworth |
|
Knutsford |
Chester |
|
8. |
|
Current Liberal Democrat
MPs (at Sept 2015) |
|
Name of MP |
Constituency |
|
Tom Brake |
Carshalton and Walling |
|
Alastair Carmichael |
Orkney and Shetland
|
|
Nick Clegg |
Sheffield Hallam |
|
Tim Farron
|
Westmoreland and
Lonsdale |
|
Norman
Lamb |
North Norfolk |
|
Greg Mulholland |
Leeds North West |
|
John Pugh
|
Southport |
|
Mark Williams
|
Ceredigion
|
|
|
9. |
|
Most popular
destinations from Manchester Airport |
|
|
Destination |
|
1 |
Dubai |
|
2 |
Dublin |
|
3 |
Tenerife |
|
4 |
Amsterdam |
|
5 |
Palma |
|
6 |
Alicante |
|
7 |
Malaga |
|
8 |
Paris |
|
9 |
Dalaman |
|
10 |
Orlando |
|
10. |
|
Archbishops of Canterbury
since 1900 |
|
Term of Office |
Name |
|
1896-1902 |
Frederick Temple |
|
1903-1928 |
Randall Davidson |
|
1928-1942 |
Cosmo Lang |
|
1942-1944 |
William Temple |
|
1945-1961 |
Geoffrey Fisher |
|
1961-1974 |
Michael Ramsey |
|
1974-1980 |
Donald
Coggan |
|
1980-1991 |
Robert Runcie |
|
1991-2002 |
George Carey |
|
2002-2012 |
Rowan Williams |
|
2013- |
Justin
Welby |
|
