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28/09/2015 Listomania 10 Lists each with 3 items reduced to initials.  Identify these 3 items in each List.

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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