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25/01/2016 Listomania

10 Lists each with 3 items (or 3 pairs of items) reduced to initials.  Identify the initialised items in each List.

Questions without Answers

Format index

 

1.

Lancashire County Cricket Captains since 1965

(as at Jan 2016)

From

Captain

From

Captain

1965

Brian Statham

1994

Mike Watkinson

1968

Jack Bond

1998

Wasim Akram

1973

David Lloyd

1999

John Crawley

1978

Frank Hayes

2002

Warren Hegg

1981

Clive Lloyd

2005

Mark Chilton

1984

John Abrahams

2008

Stuart Law

1986

Clive Lloyd

2009

Glen Chapple

1987

David Hughes

2015

Tom Smith

1992

Neil Fairbrother

2016

Steven Croft

2.

Top selling original albums in UK in 1970s

(excluding ‘Greatest Hits’, ‘Singles Collections’ etc.)

 

Album name

Artist(s)

1

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon and Garfunkel

2

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3

Saturday Night Fever

Original Soundtrack

4

Arrival

Abba

5

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd

6

Grease

Original Soundtrack

7

Band on the Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

8

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

9

Parallel Lines

Blondie

10

Atlantic Crossing

Rod Stewart

 

3.

Groups or solo artists who sang on the 1984 single

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Group/Solo artist

Group/Solo artist

Bananarama

Spandau Ballet

The Boomtown Rats

Status Quo

Culture Club

The Style Council

Duran Duran

Ultravox

Genesis

U2

Heaven 17

Jody Watley

Kool and the Gang

Wham

Marilyn

Paul Young

The Police

 

4.

Federal States of Germany by population size

(as at Jan 2016)

Pop.

State name

Pop.

State name

17.8m

North Rhine-Westphalia

2.8m

Schleswig-Holstein

12.5m

Bavaria

2.5m

Brandenberg

10.8m

Baden-Würtemberg

2.3m

Saxony-Anhalt

7.9m

Lower Saxony

2.2m

Thuringia

6.1m

Hesse

1.8m

Hamburg

4.1m

Saxony

1.6m

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

4.0m

Rhineland-Palatinate

1.0m

Saarland

3.5m

Berlin

0.7m

Bremen

5.

Characters from Twelfth Night

Character

Character

Viola

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Sebastian

Feste

Duke Orsino

Fabian

Olivia

Antonio

Malvolio

Valentine

Maria

Curio

Sir Toby Belch

 

 

6.

Roads off Wilmslow Road driving from Fog Lane to the traffic lights in Withington Village, Manchester

To the left....

To the right....

Ballbrook Avenue

Westholme Road

Redcourt Avenue

Old Broadway

Mayville Drive

Ferndene Road

The Circuit

Rathen Road

Oak Road

Kinnaird Road

Tatton Grove

Cotton Lane

Marriott Street

Arnfield Road

 

7.

General Secretaries of the TUC since office began (as at Jan 2016)

From

Name

From

Name

1921

C W Bowerman

1973

Len Murray

1923

Fred Bramley

1984

Norman Willis

1925

Sir Walter Citrine

1993

John Monks

1946

Sir Vincent Tewson

2003

Brendan Barber

1960

George Woodcock

2013

Frances O’Grady

1969

Vic Feather

 

 

 

8.

First 20 Agatha Christie novels

(omitting the word ‘The’)

Year

Title

Year

Title

1920

Mysterious Affair at Styles

1930

Giant’s Bread

1922

Secret Adversary

1931

Floating Admiral

1923

Murder on the Links

1931

Sittaford Mystery

1924

Man in the Brown Suit

1932

Peril at End House

1925

Secret of Chimneys

1933

Lord Edgware Dies

1926

Murder of Roger Ackroyd

1934

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

1927

Big Four

1934

Murder on the Orient Express

1928

Mystery of the Blue Train

1934

Unfinished Portrait

1929

Seven Dials Mystery

1935

Three Act Tragedy

1930

Murder at the Vicarage

1935

Death in the Clouds

9.

Winners of the UK ‘Beard of the Year’ award since 2000

Year

Winner

Year

Winner

2000

Frank Dobson

2007

Robert Plant

2001

Jeremy Corbyn

2008

Rowan Williams

2002

Charles Clarke

2009

Zach de la Rocha

2003

(not awarded)

2010

Gerry Adams

2004

Andrew Flintoff & Paul Mackney

2011

Jay Rayner

2005

Andrew Flintoff

2012

Robin Lustig

2006

Monty Panesar

2013

Gareth Malone

10.

Time Magazine Person the Year

1970 to 1989

Year

Person of the Year

Year

Person of the Year

1970

Willy Brandt

1980

Ronald Reagan

1971

Richard Nixon

1981

Lech Walesa

1972

Nixon & Henry Kissinger

1982

The Computer

1973

John Sirica

1983

Reagan & Yuri Andropov

1974

King Faisal

1984

Peter Ueberroth

1975

American women

1985

Deng Xiaoping

1976

Jimmy Carter

1986

Corazon Aquino

1977

Anwar Sadat

1987

Mikhail Gorbachev

1978

Deng Xiaoping

1988

The Endangered Earth

1979

Ayatollah Khomeini

1989

Mikhail Gorbachev