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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.

Final end of season First Division table

in 1992 before advent of the Premiership

Pos

Team

Pos

Team

1

Leeds United

12

Everton

2

Manchester United

13

Wimbledon

3

Sheffield Wednesday

14

Chelsea

4

Arsenal

15

Tottenham Hotspur

5

Manchester City

16

Southampton

6

Liverpool

17

Oldham Athletic

7

Aston Villa

18

Norwich City

8

Nottingham Forest

19

Coventry City

9

Sheffield United

20

Luton Town

10

Crystal Palace

21

Notts County

11

Queens Park Rangers

22

West Ham United

2.

UK Top 10

on Christmas Day 1986

 

Song

Artist

1

Reet Petite

Jackie Wilson

2

Caravan of Love

The Housemartins

3

The Final Countdown

Europe

4

Open Your Heart

Madonna

5

Sometimes

Erasure

6

The Rain

Oran 'Juice' Jones

7

Cry Wolf

A-Ha

8

Is This Love?

Alison Moyet

9

Shake You Down

Gregory Abbott

10

Livin’ On A Prayer

Bon Jovi

 

3.

Last 10 Governors of the Bank of England

(as at March 2016)

Term

Governor

1920–1944

Montagu Collet Norman

1944–1949

Thomas Catto

1949-1961

Kim Cobbold

1961–1966

Rowland Baring

1966–1973

Leslie O'Brien

1973–1983

Gordon Richardson

1983–1993

Robin Leigh-Pemberton

1993–2003

Eddie George

2003–2013

Mervyn King

2013–

Mark Carney

4.

Breed of the last 20 ‘Best in Show’ winners at Crufts

(as at March 2016)

Year

Breed

Year

Breed

1997

Yorkshire Terrier

2007

Tibetan Terrier

1998

Welsh Terrier

2008

Giant Schnauzer

1999

Irish Setter

2009

Sealyham Terrier

2000

Kerry Blue Terrier

2010

Hungarian Vizsla

2001

Basenji

2011

Retriever

2002

Poodle

2012

Lhasa Apso

2003

Pekinese

2013

Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen

2004

Whippet

2014

Poodle

2005

Norfolk Terrier

2015

Scottish Terrier

2006

Australian Shepherd

2016

West Highland White Terrier

5.

Rolling Stones Studio Albums released in the UK

(as at March 2016)

Year

Album title

Year

Album title

1964

The Rolling Stones

1974

It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll

1965

The Rolling Stones No. 2

1976

Black and Blue

1965

Out of Our Heads

1978

Some Girls

1966

Aftermath

1980

Emotional Rescue

1967

Between the Buttons

1981

Tattoo You

1967

Their Satanic Majesties Request

1983

Undercover

1968

Beggar's Banquet

1986

Dirty Work

1969

Let it Bleed

1989

Steel Wheels

1971

Sticky Fingers

1994

Voodoo Lounge

1972

Exile on Main St.

1997

Bridges to Babylon

1973

Goat's Head Soup

2005

A Bigger Bang

6.

List of Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champions to win

title just once in the open era (as at March 2016)

Year

Ladies Champion

1969

Ann Jones

1970

Margaret Court

1977

Virginia Wade

1994

Conchita Martinez

1997

Martina Hingis

1998

Jana Novotna

1999

Lindsay Davenport

2004

Maria Sharapova

2006

Amelie Mauresmo

2013

Marion Bartoli

7.

Novels (not Collections of essays)

by Julian Barnes (as at March 2016)

Year

Novel

1980

Metroland

1982

Before She Met Me

1984

Flaubert's Parrot

1986

Staring at the Sun

1989

A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters

1991

Taking It Over

1992

The Porcupine

1998

England, England

2000

Love etc.

2005

Arthur and George

2011

The Sense of an Ending

2016

The Noise of Time

 

8.

List of Shadow Chancellors of the Exchequer

since May 1979 (as at March 2016)

From

Chancellor

From

Chancellor

1979

Denis Healey

2001

Michael Howard

1980

Peter Shore

2003

Oliver Letwin

1983

Roy Hattersley

2005

George Osborne

1987

John Smith

2010

Alistair Darling

1992

Gordon Brown

2010

Alan Johnson

1997

Kenneth  Clarke

2011

Ed Balls

1997

Peter Lilley

2015

Chris Leslie

1998

Francis Maude

2015

John McDonnell

2000

Michael Portillo

 

 

 

9.

Highest 20 Lake District mountains included in

Wainwright’s 7 Pictorial Guides

 

Height

(m)

Mountain

 

Height

(m)

Mountain

1

978

Scafell Pike

11

885

Esk Pike

2

964

Scafell

12

883

Raise

3

950

Helvellyn

13

873

Fairfield

4

931

Skiddaw

14

868

Blencathra

5

910

Great End

15

865

Skiddaw Little Man

6

902

Bowfell

16

863

Whiteside

7

899

Great Gable

17

859

Crinkle Crags

8

892

Pillar

18

858

Dollywagon Pike

9

891

Nethermost Pike

19

857

Great Dodd

10

890

Catstye Cam

20

852

Grasmoor

10.

Films in which Robert De Niro appeared

1974-1990

Year

De Niro Film

Year

De Niro film

1974

The Godfather Part II

1984

Falling in Love

1976

Taxi Driver

1985

Brazil

1976

1900

1986

The Mission

1976

The Last Tycoon

1987

Angel Heart

1977

New York, New York

1987

The Untouchables

1978

The Deer Hunter

1988

Midnight Run

1979

The Swap

1989

Jacknife

1980

Raging Bull

1989

Where No Angels

1981

True Confessions

1990

Stanley & Iris

1983

The King of Comedy

1990

Gooodfellas

1984

Once Upon a Time in America

1990

Awakenings