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29/02/2016 Listomania

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

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Format index

 

1.

Olivier award for Best Actress

2006 to 2015

Year

Actress

Play

2006

Eve Best

Hedda Gabler

2007

Tamsin Greig

Much Ado About Nothing

2008

Kristin Scott Thomas

The Seagull

2009

Margaret Tyzack

The Chalk Garden

2010

Rachel Weisz

A Streetcar Named Desire

2011

Nancy Carroll

After the Dance

2012

Ruth Wilson

Anna Christie

2013

Helen Mirren

The Audience

2014

Lesley Manville

Ghosts

2015

Penelope Wilton

Taken at Midnight

2.

UK Top 10 on the day that Princess Diana died

(31/07/1997)

 

Song

Artist

1

Men in Black

Will Smith

2

Tubthumping

Chumbawamba

3

Honey

Mariah Carey

4

I Know Where It’s At

All Saints

5

Traveller’s Tune

Oceans Colour Scene

6

I’ll Be Missing You

Puff Daddy & Faith Evans ft 112

7

Free

DJ Quicksilver

8

Karma Police

Radiohead

9

Freed From Desire

Gala

10

When Doves Cry

Ginuwine

3.

Government Chief Whips

since 1974

From

Chief Whip

From

Chief Whip

1974

Bob Mellish

2001

Hilary Armstrong

1976

Michael Cocks

2006

Jacqui Smith

1979

Michael Jopling

2007

Geoff Hoon

1983

John Wakeham

2008

Nick Brown

1986

David Waddington

2010

Patrick McLoughlin

1989

Tim Renton

2012

Andrew Mitchell

1990

Richard Ryder

2012

Sir George Young

1995

Alastair Goodlad

2015

Michael Gove

1997

Nick Brown

2015

Mark Harper

1998

Ann Taylor

 

4.

Top 20 Channel 4 sitcoms of all time as voted for by

C4 audience

 

Sitcom title

 

Sitcom title

1

Father Ted

11

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

2

The IT Crowd

12

Trigger Happy TV

3

Peep Show

13

Fonejacker

4

Black Books

14

Vic Reeves Big Night Out

5

Inbetweeners

15

Absolutely

6

Spaced

16

Drop the Dead Donkey

7

Green Wing

17

The Comic Strip Presents….

8

Brass Eye

18

The Adam and Joe Show

9

Phoenix Nights

19

Bo' Selecta!

10

Da Ali G Show

20

Smack the Pony

5.

Tracks on Beatles’

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP

Side 1

Side 2

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Within You Without You
With a Little Help From My Friends When I’m Sixty-Four
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Lovely Rita
Getting Better Good Morning Good Morning
Fixing a Hole Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
She’s Leaving Home A Day in the Life
For the Benefit of Mr Kite  

6.

Manchester Councillors for Didsbury

(as at Feb 2016)

Didsbury East

Didsbury West

David Ellison

Bridie Adams

Carl Ollerhead

Andrew Simcock

Josie Teubler

James Wilson

7.

Italy’s Regions by population size

Pop.(m)

Region name

Pop. (m)

Region name

10.00

Lombardy

1.66

Sardinia

5.89

Lazio

1.58

Liguria

5.87

Campania

1.55

Marche

5.09

Sicily

1.33

Abruzzo

4.93

Veneto

1.28

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

4.45

Emilia-Romagna

1.06

Trentino-South Tyrol

4.43

Piedmont

0.90

Umbria

4.08

Apulia

0.58

Basilicata

3.75

Tuscany

0.31

Molise

1.98

Calabria

0.13

Aosta Valley

8.

Most appearances as England Goalkeeper

(as Feb 2016)

App.

Goalkeeper

App.

Goalkeeper

125

Peter Shilton

24

Bert Williams

75

David Seaman

23

Gil Merrick

73

Gordon Banks

23

Nigel Martyn

61

Ray Clemence

21

Samuel Hardy

57

Joe Hart

19

Vic Woodley

53

David James

19

Frank Swift

43

Chris Woods

14

Ed Hopkinson

41

Paul Robinson

12

Rob Green

33

Ron Springett

11

Tim Flowers

25

Henry Hibbs

11

John Robinson

9.

Characters from Shakespeare’s

The Merchant of Venice

Character

Description

Character

Description

Antonio

Merchant

Jessica

Shylock daughter

Bassanio

Friend of Antonio

Tubal

Shylock friend

Gratiano

Friend of Antonio

Lancelot Gobbo

Shylock ex-servant

Lorenzo

Friend of Antonio

Old Gobbo

L Gobbo’s father

Portia

Rich heiress

Leonardo

Bassiano’s slave

Nerissa

Portia’s maid

Duke of Venice

Presiding judge

Balthazar

Portia’s servant

Prince of Morocco

Portia’s suitor

Stephano

Balthazar’s law clerk

Prince of Arragon

Portia’s suitor

Shylock

Moneylender

 

 

10.

Films in which Michael Caine appeared

2006-2015

Year

Film

Year

Film

2006

Children of Men

2012

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

2006

The Prestige

2012

The Dark Knight Rises

2007

Flawless

2013

Now You See Me

2007

Sleuth

2013

Mr Morgan’s Last Love

2008

The Dark Knight

2014

Stoneyhearst Asylum

2008

Is Anybody There?

2014

Interstellar

2009

Harry Brown

2015

Kingsman: The Secret Service

2010

Inception

2015

Youth

2011

Gnomeo and Juliet

2015

The Last Witch Hunter

2011

Cars 2