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25/09/2017 Listomania

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

Questions with Answers

Format index

 

1.

2011 FA Cup Semi Final teams

(players who started the Wembley match – not subs)

Manchester City (1)

Manchester United (0)

Joe Hart

Edwin Van der Sar

Vincent Kompany

Patrice Evra

Pablo Zabaleta

Rio Ferdinand

Aleksandar Kolarov

Nemanja Vidic

JL

John O’Shea

AJ

Park Ji-Sung

Gareth Barry

Michael Carrick

David Silva

Nani

Nigel De Jong

Paul Scholes

Yaya Touré

Antonio Valencia

Mario Balotelli

DB

2.

Celebrities in 2017 Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly 2017 Celebrity

Strictly 2017 Celebrity

Chizzy Akudolu

MK

Gemma Atkinson

Ruth Langsford

Alexandra Burke

Joe McFadden

Susan Calman

Debbie McGee

RRC

Aston Merrygold

Brian Conley

Jonnie Peacock

Davood Ghadami

SR

Charlotte Hawkins's

 

3.

Australian Prime Ministers since 1950

Australian PM

Australian PM

Sir Robert Menzies Paul Keating
Harold Holt John Howard
John McEwen Kevin Rudd
John Gorton JG
William McMahon Kevin Rudd
GW Tony Abbott
Malcolm Fraser MT
Bob Hawke  

4.

Roads off Wilmslow Road in Didsbury

(from Lapwing Lane/Fog Lane to Dene Road )

Grange Lane

 

Elm Grove

 

OOS

 

Albert Hill Street

South Road

King’s Lynn Close

Grove Lane

School Lane

York Street

Warburton Street

WS

MR

Barlow Moor Road

Belfield Road

Norgate Street

Clothorn Road

Parkfield Road South

Anerley Road

Marlowe Drive

Off to the left

Off to the right

5.

Extract from cast list of Blackadder Goes Forth

Character

played  by...

Captain Edmund Blackadder

Rowan Atkinson

Private S Baldrick

Tony Robinson

Lieutenant George

Hugh Laurie

CKD

Tim McInnery

General Hogmanay Melchett

Stephen Fry

Lord Flashheart

Rik Mayall

Private ‘Bob’ Parkhurst

Gabrielle Glaister

Baron Von Richtofen

Adrian Edmondson

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

GP

Nurse Mary Fletcher-Brown

MR

6.

Ingredients for Nigella’s Ultimate Christmas pudding

Ingredients

Ingredients

Currants

Ground cinnamon

Sultanas

Ground cloves

Chopped prunes

Baking powder

Pedro Ximenez sherry

ZOL

Plain flour

Eggs

Breadcrumbs

Cooking apple

Suet

H

DBMS

Vodka

(to flame the pudding)

7.

UK Top 10 Singles on the day the Berlin Wall fell

(9th November 1989)

 

Title

Artist

1

AATW

Lisa Stansfield

2

Girl I’m Going to Miss You

MV

3

That’s What I Like

Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers

4

Never Too Late

Kylie Minogue

5

Street Tuff

Rebel MC and Double Trouble

6

Room in Your Heart

Living in a Box

7

I Feel the Earth Move

M

8

Another Day in Paradise

Phil Collins

9

Leave a Light on

Belinda Carlisle

10

If I Could Turn Back Time

Cher

8.

List of Ernest Hemingway’s full length novels

(1926 to 1986)

Published in...

Novel title

1926

The Torrents of Spring

1926

TSAR

1929

A Farewell to Arms

1937

To Have and Have Not

1940

FWTBT

1950

Across the River and into the Trees

1952

TOMATS

1970 (post)

Islands in the Stream

1986 (post)

The Garden of Eden

9.

TV BAFTAs for Drama and Comedy

(2008 to 2017)

Year

Best Drama

Best Comedy

(series or Programme)

2008

The Street

Fonejacker

2009

Wallander

Harry & Paul

2010

Misfits

TAAMS

2011

Sherlock

Harry & Paul

2012

The Fades

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle

2013

LTIH

The Revolution Will Be Televised

2014

Broadchurch

A League of Their Own

2015

Happy Valley

The Graham Norton Show

2016

Wolf Hall

Have I Got News For You

2017

Happy Valley

CBTSS

 

10.

2008 to 2017 European Capitals of Culture

(2 per year apart from 2010)

Year

 

City 1

 

City 2

(and City 3 in 2010)

2008

Liverpool

S

2009

Vilnius

Linz

2010

Essen

Pécs

Istanbul

2011

T

Tallinn

2012

Guamarães

Maribor

2013

Marseille

Košice

2014

Riga

Umeå

2015

Mons

Pizeň

2016

San Sebastián

W

2017

Aarhus

Paphos