ROUND 1 - 'In the Fletcher Moss no-one can hear you scream'

Taglines are catchy, enticing short phrases dreamt up by 'the boys in marketing' at film studios to advertise and sell a movie and to sum up the plot, tone or themes of a film.

In this round we will provide you with a film’s tagline and the year of its cinematic release, all you have to do is supply the movie’s title.

For example:

"There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They’re looking for one." (2003) …would hopefully lead you to… Finding Nemo

1.

"One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero"  (1993)

2.

"You don’t get to make 500 million friends without making a few enemies"  (2010)

3.

"On the air. Unaware" (1998)

4.

"His story will touch you, even though he can’t"  (1990)

5.

"They’re young…they’re in love…and they kill people"  (1967)

6.

"The story of a man who was too proud to run"  (1952)

7.

"Escape or die frying"  (2000)

8.

"When he pours, he reigns"  (1988)

Sp1

"A romantic comedy. With Zombies"  (2004)

Sp2

"The longer you wait, the harder it gets"  (2005)

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ROUND 2 - 'Questions and Answers and Questions'

All the answers are in themselves questions

1.

In December 1959, What Do You Want? by Adam Faith was replaced at the top of the UK charts by another disc, the title of which started with the same four words i.e. 'What Do You Want.'  Complete the title of that song.

2.

Which 1959 Lonnie Donegan single extolled the virtues of nocturnal mastication?

3.

What was the pithy title of Bob Geldof’s 1986 autobiography?

4.

What was the name of Ronald Reagan’s 1965 autobiography?  It took its title from a line of dialogue uttered by Ronnie in the 1942 film Kings Row, in which Reagan’s character had both his legs amputated by a sadistic surgeon.

5.

Name the 1942 British war film, based on a short story by Graham Greene which tells the tale of an English village infiltrated by German paratroopers.

6.

One of the most popular works in Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, this 1878 painting by William Frederick Yeames depicts a Royalist house under occupation by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.  It features a young boy being interrogated as to the whereabouts of the master of the house.  What is its title?

7.

Which 1935 novel by Horace McCoy was mainly set during a dance marathon in the midst of the Great Depression?  It was adapted into a film by Sidney Pollack in 1969.  In 1977, Welsh rock band Racing Cars scored a top 20 hit with a single of the same name.

8.

Which reality TV show which almost literally scraped the bottom of the televisual barrel, featured Aggie MacKenzie and Kim Woodburn and ran on Channel 4 from May 2003 until September 2009?

Sp1

Which film from the year 2000 tells the tale of two young men who are unable to locate their automobile after a night out on the tiles?

Sp2

What was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill on Sunday 25 November 1984?

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ROUND 3 - 'Odd words'

Each answer is a single rather unusual word

1.

In evolutionary biology what is the five letter word for a group of organisms that can be traced back to a common ancestor?  It derives from the Greek word for branch.

2.

In chemistry what is the seven-letter word for a substance made of insoluble particles within a larger volume of something else?  Fog and milk are everyday examples.

3.

What is the missing four-letter word from these lines in The Second Coming by WB Yeats?

“Turning and turning in the widening ........
The falcon cannot hear the falconer.”

4.

Which eleven-letter word precedes "Making the green one red” in Macbeth Act 2, Scene 2?

5.

Which six letter Scottish dialect word refers to a mythical creature that is a seal in water, but human on land?

6.

What is the geological word, originally Hawaiian, for basaltic volcanic lava that forms into jagged masses with a light frothy texture?

7.

What is the eleven-letter word for the branch of theology concerned with the last judgement and the end of time?

8.

What is the tiny songbird that used to be considered a delicacy in France when drowned in Armagnac, then cooked and eaten whole? (this practice is now illegal)

Sp1

What is the rhetorical term for a phrase that says the same thing twice, such as 'black darkness' or 'big giant'?

Sp2

What is the seventeen-letter, Greek derived word for fear of the number thirteen?

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ROUNDS 4 & 5 - 21st century Bingo

A nice random mix of questions - pick a year and see what you get

2001

Downsize, broadcast on July 9th 2001, was the first of 14 episodes of which BBC TV sitcom?

2002

Imre Kertesz (pronounced Kertez) became the first Nobel Literature laureate from which country?

2003

Which BAFTA-winning Hollywood actor won the prestigious Lasker Award for public service in medical science, a year before his passing?  He became a major advocate for disability rehabilitation following an accident in 1995

2004

The Io Passion is a chamber opera that premiered at Aldeburgh in June.  Which British composer wrote the music?

2005

Which sportsman was awarded the freedom of Preston amongst other accolades he picked up that year?

2006

Which country declared independence after a referendum on May 21st?

2007

Al Mualim and Desmond Miles are two of the main characters of which video game launched in 2007?  It has since become one of the most successful gaming franchises selling over 100 million copies.

2008

The Spotify music streaming service was launched in 2008 in which country?

2009

Using a metal detector, Terry Herbert discovered the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard of gold ever found in which English county?  It was found near the village of Hammerwich, which when the gold was deposited, was located in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia?

2010

Which prominent figure’s 21-year house arrest ended on November 13th 2010?

2011

Which album released by Adele was one of the biggest-selling globally in 2011?  It included the hit singles Rollin' In The Deep and Someone Like You.

2012

Who was Mitt Romney’s running-mate in the 2012 US presidential election?

2013

Mangalyaan, the Mars Orbiter Mission, was launched by which country in their first inter-planetary programme?

2014

The first season of which HBO TV series premiered on January 12th 2014 starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson?

2015

In 2015, L’homme au doigt or Pointing Man became the world’s most valuable sculpture fetching just over $141 million?  Who was the sculptor?

2016

Croatian athlete Sandra Perković defended her Olympic title at which field event, winning with a distance of 71.41m?

2017

My Not So Perfect Life is a best-selling novel of 2017, written by which prolific British author, well-known for a popular series of novels featuring the character Rebecca Bloomwood?

2018

In September 2018, who started her temporary tenure replacing Kirsty Young as presenter of Desert Island Discs?

2019

Why was Norfolk mother of two Emma Fairbrother in the national news headlines in January 2019?

2020

Alongside Rijeka in Croatia, which Irish city is the joint 2020 European Capital of Culture?

2021

Set in 2021, which 1995 cyberpunk action-thriller film starred Keanu Reeves and Dolph Lundgren?

2022

The Gregorian year 2022 is 2566 in which religion’s calendar?

2023

In which South American capital city is the major world event Expo 2023 due to be held?

2024

The 2024 Men’s European Football Championships are due to be in which country, reverting back to a single nation host format?

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ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

Who is the most recent batsman to score one hundred centuries in first-class cricket?  He reached the milestone playing for Surrey against Yorkshire in 2008.

2.

Who is the most recent bowler to take 1,000 wickets in first-class cricket?  He reached the milestone playing for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh in 2017.

3.

Which Australian singer connects The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds, and Grinderman?  His biggest hit in the UK was a duet with Kylie Minogue, Where The Wild Roses Grow.

4.

Which American singer connects the films The Natural, Awakenings, and Cars?  He reached number two in the US charts in 1977 with Short People.

5.

Which name is shared by a capital city located at the mouth of the Demerara River and a university in Washington, DC, noted for its political alumni?

6.

Which name is shared by a capital city located on the low-lying island of New Providence and a European aristocratic dynasty which incorporates the House of Orange?

7.

Whose memoir Becoming has been number one on the New York Times non-fiction best-sellers list since early December 2018?

8.

The President is Missing was number one on the New York Times fiction best-sellers list for six weeks in summer 2018. With whom did James Patterson write it?

Sp1

If it was Cincinnatus in 458 BC and Sulla in 81 BC, who was it in 49 BC?

Sp2

If it was William Longchamp in the 1190s and William Marshal in the 1210s, who was it in 1483?

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ROUND 7 - Hidden theme - 'So long and thanks for all the fish'

1.

Recorded at the cost of one million dollars during what music journalists have described as a “cocaine blizzard”, which album of 1979 features the songs Sara and Not That Funny?

2.

Which Italian sportswear company was the named sponsor of Bolton Wanderers’ home ground between 2014 and 2018?

3.

Which six-letter word connects: landed nobles of nineteenth-century Prussia such as Otto von Bismarck, and a position held by aspiring officers in the Waffen-SS?

4.

In baseball, what is the name given to the fence behind the homeplate which is designed to protect spectators from wild pitches or foul balls?

5.

Running from 2005 to 2016, which television show featured 'pilgrims', the 'dream factory', and the 'blues cruise'?

6.

The 2007 film Battle in Seattle depicts the violence which erupted in protest at the 1999 conference of which organization?

7.

Which word connects: chemical elements 'whose atom has a partially filled d sub-shell' and an event in American politics which last occurred between 8 November 2016 and 20 January 2017?

8.

Also known as a plebiscite, what is the gerundive form of the Latin verb meaning 'to carry back'?

Sp1

At 499 kilometres in length, what passes through the fictional village of Puckoon?

Sp2

Inaugurated in 1834 and in time covering most of central and eastern Europe, the Zollverein was an early example of which kind of cooperative organization?

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ROUND 8 - Hidden theme - 'It was 20 years ago today'

1.

With nicknames including 'The G-Men' and 'The Big Blue Wrecking Crew', which sports team plays its home matches at the Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey?

2.

Running for 24 episodes between 1964 and 1970, which comedy show introduced the world to Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling and The Leaping Nuns of the Order of St Beryl?

3.

Born in Ealing in 1899 with the surname Norway, which novelist adopted a nom de plume in order to protect his aeronautical engineering career from potentially negative publicity?

4.

Known as 'The Master of Disaster', which director and producer was responsible for movies such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno?  He also created the TV series Lost in Space.

5.

"London is trying to strip us of the means of knowledge by loading the press, the colleges, and even ... a News-Paper, with restraints and duties."  To which legislation of 1765 do these words of John Adams refer?

6.

Who won seven Grammys for her 1991 album Unforgettable With Love which featured cover versions of songs made popular by her father?

7.

Which now-prominent politician was sacked from The Times in 1988 for inventing a quote from his godfather, the Oxford historian Colin Lucas, for a story about the discovery of Edward II's palace?

8.

The daughter of Minnie Riperton and the wife of P T Anderson, which actress appeared on Saturday Night Live between 2000 and 2007?  Her other credits include Bridesmaids, Grown Ups, and The Good Place.

Sp1

Under The Iron Sea, Perfect Symmetry, and Strangeland are among the number one albums of which piano- and synth-driven band from Sussex?

Sp2

Coloured either yellow or green depending on its ripeness, which specific citrus fruit is used to flavour Earl Grey tea?

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ROUND 1 - 'In the Fletcher Moss no-one can hear you scream'

Taglines are catchy, enticing short phrases dreamt up by 'the boys in marketing' at film studios to advertise and sell a movie and to sum up the plot, tone or themes of a film.

For example:

"There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They’re looking for one." (2003) …would hopefully lead you to… Finding Nemo

1.

"One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero"  (1993)

Cool Runnings

2.

"You don’t get to make 500 million friends without making a few enemies"  (2010)

3.

"On the air. Unaware" (1998)

The Truman Show

4.

"His story will touch you, even though he can’t"  (1990)

Edward Scissorhands

5.

"They’re young…they’re in love…and they kill people"  (1967)

Bonnie and Clyde

6.

"The story of a man who was too proud to run"  (1952)

High Noon

7.

"Escape or die frying"  (2000)

Chicken Run

8.

"When he pours, he reigns"  (1988)

Cocktail

Sp1

"A romantic comedy. With Zombies"  (2004)

Shaun of the Dead

Sp2

"The longer you wait, the harder it gets"  (2005)

The 40 year old Virgin

ROUND 2 - 'Questions and Answers and Questions'

All the answers are in themselves questions

1.

In December 1959, What Do You Want? by Adam Faith was replaced at the top of the UK charts by another disc, the title of which started with the same four words i.e. 'What Do You Want.'  Complete the title of that song.

(What Do You Want) to Make Those Eyes at Me For?

(by Emile Ford & The Checkmates)

2.

Which 1959 Lonnie Donegan single extolled the virtues of nocturnal mastication?

3.

What was the pithy title of Bob Geldof’s 1986 autobiography?

Is that it?

4.

What was the name of Ronald Reagan’s 1965 autobiography?  It took its title from a line of dialogue uttered by Ronnie in the 1942 film Kings Row, in which Reagan’s character had both his legs amputated by a sadistic surgeon.

Where’s the Rest of Me?

5.

Name the 1942 British war film, based on a short story by Graham Greene which tells the tale of an English village infiltrated by German paratroopers.

Went the Day Well?

6.

One of the most popular works in Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, this 1878 painting by William Frederick Yeames depicts a Royalist house under occupation by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.  It features a young boy being interrogated as to the whereabouts of the master of the house.  What is its title?

(And) When Did You Last See Your Father?

7.

Which 1935 novel by Horace McCoy was mainly set during a dance marathon in the midst of the Great Depression?  It was adapted into a film by Sidney Pollack in 1969.  In 1977, Welsh rock band Racing Cars scored a top 20 hit with a single of the same name.

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

8.

Which reality TV show which almost literally scraped the bottom of the televisual barrel, featured Aggie MacKenzie and Kim Woodburn and ran on Channel 4 from May 2003 until September 2009?

How Clean is Your House?

Sp1

Which film from the year 2000 tells the tale of two young men who are unable to locate their automobile after a night out on the tiles?

Dude, Where’s my Car?

Sp2

What was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill on Sunday 25 November 1984?

Do They Know it’s Christmas?

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ROUND 3 - 'Odd words'

Each answer is a single rather unusual word

1.

In evolutionary biology what is the five letter word for a group of organisms that can be traced back to a common ancestor?  It derives from the Greek word for branch.

Clade

2.

In chemistry what is the seven-letter word for a substance made of insoluble particles within a larger volume of something else?  Fog and milk are everyday examples.

Colloid

3.

What is the missing four-letter word from these lines in The Second Coming by WB Yeats?

“Turning and turning in the widening ........
The falcon cannot hear the falconer.”

Gyre

4.

Which eleven-letter word precedes "Making the green one red” in Macbeth Act 2, Scene 2?

Incarnadine

5.

Which six letter Scottish dialect word refers to a mythical creature that is a seal in water, but human on land?

Selkie

6.

What is the geological word, originally Hawaiian, for basaltic volcanic lava that forms into jagged masses with a light frothy texture?

A'a

(pronounced ah-ah)

7.

What is the eleven-letter word for the branch of theology concerned with the last judgement and the end of time?

Eschatology

8.

What is the tiny songbird that used to be considered a delicacy in France when drowned in Armagnac, then cooked and eaten whole? (this practice is now illegal)

Ortolan

Sp1

What is the rhetorical term for a phrase that says the same thing twice, such as 'black darkness' or 'big giant'?

Pleonasm

Sp2

What is the seventeen-letter, Greek derived word for fear of the number thirteen?

Triskaidekaphobia

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ROUNDS 4 & 5 - 21st century Bingo

A nice random mix of questions - pick a year and see what you get

2001

Downsize, broadcast on July 9th 2001, was the first of 14 episodes of which BBC TV sitcom?

The Office

2002

Imre Kertesz (pronounced Kertez) became the first Nobel Literature laureate from which country?

Hungary

2003

Which BAFTA-winning Hollywood actor won the prestigious Lasker Award for public service in medical science, a year before his passing?  He became a major advocate for disability rehabilitation following an accident in 1995

Christopher Reeve

2004

The Io Passion is a chamber opera that premiered at Aldeburgh in June.  Which British composer wrote the music?

Harrison Birtwistle

2005

Which sportsman was awarded the freedom of Preston amongst other accolades he picked up that year?

Andrew Flintoff

2006

Which country declared independence after a referendum on May 21st?

Montenegro

2007

Al Mualim and Desmond Miles are two of the main characters of which video game launched in 2007?  It has since become one of the most successful gaming franchises selling over 100 million copies.

Assassin’s Creed

2008

The Spotify music streaming service was launched in 2008 in which country?

Sweden

2009

Using a metal detector, Terry Herbert discovered the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard of gold ever found in which English county?  It was found near the village of Hammerwich, which when the gold was deposited, was located in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia?

Staffordshire

(the gold was purchased for £3.285 million)

2010

Which prominent figure’s 21-year house arrest ended on November 13th 2010?

Aung San Suu Kyi

2011

Which album released by Adele was one of the biggest-selling globally in 2011?  It included the hit singles Rollin' In The Deep and Someone Like You.

21

2012

Who was Mitt Romney’s running-mate in the 2012 US presidential election?

Paul Ryan

2013

Mangalyaan, the Mars Orbiter Mission, was launched by which country in their first inter-planetary programme?

India

2014

The first season of which HBO TV series premiered on January 12th 2014 starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson?

True Detective

2015

In 2015, L’homme au doigt or Pointing Man became the world’s most valuable sculpture fetching just over $141 million?  Who was the sculptor?

Alberto Giaccometti

2016

Croatian athlete Sandra Perković defended her Olympic title at which field event, winning with a distance of 71.41m?

Discus

2017

My Not So Perfect Life is a best-selling novel of 2017, written by which prolific British author, well-known for a popular series of novels featuring the character Rebecca Bloomwood?

Sophie Kinsella

2018

In September 2018, who started her temporary tenure replacing Kirsty Young as presenter of Desert Island Discs?

Lauren Laverne

2019

Why was Norfolk mother of two Emma Fairbrother in the national news headlines in January 2019?

She broke her wrist in a car collision with the Duke of Edinburgh near Sandringham

2020

Alongside Rijeka in Croatia, which Irish city is the joint 2020 European Capital of Culture?

Galway

2021

Set in 2021, which 1995 cyberpunk action-thriller film starred Keanu Reeves and Dolph Lundgren?

Jonny Mnemonic

2022

The Gregorian year 2022 is 2566 in which religion’s calendar?

Buddhist

2023

In which South American capital city is the major world event Expo 2023 due to be held?

Buenos Aires

2024

The 2024 Men’s European Football Championships are due to be in which country, reverting back to a single nation host format?

Germany

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ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

Who is the most recent batsman to score one hundred centuries in first-class cricket?  He reached the milestone playing for Surrey against Yorkshire in 2008.

Mark Ramprakash

2.

Who is the most recent bowler to take 1,000 wickets in first-class cricket?  He reached the milestone playing for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh in 2017.

Rangana Herath

3.

Which Australian singer connects The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds, and Grinderman?  His biggest hit in the UK was a duet with Kylie Minogue, Where The Wild Roses Grow.

4.

Which American singer connects the films The Natural, Awakenings, and Cars?  He reached number two in the US charts in 1977 with Short People.

5.

Which name is shared by a capital city located at the mouth of the Demerara River and a university in Washington, DC, noted for its political alumni?

Georgetown

6.

Which name is shared by a capital city located on the low-lying island of New Providence and a European aristocratic dynasty which incorporates the House of Orange?

Nassau

7.

Whose memoir Becoming has been number one on the New York Times non-fiction best-sellers list since early December 2018?

Michelle Obama

8.

The President is Missing was number one on the New York Times fiction best-sellers list for six weeks in summer 2018. With whom did James Patterson write it?

Bill Clinton

Sp1

If it was Cincinnatus in 458 BC and Sulla in 81 BC, who was it in 49 BC?

Julius Caesar

(dictators of the Roman Republic)

Sp2

If it was William Longchamp in the 1190s and William Marshal in the 1210s, who was it in 1483?

Richard, Duke of Gloucester

(the future Richard III; regents of the Kingdom of England)

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ROUND 7 - Hidden theme - 'So long and thanks for all the fish'

1.

Recorded at the cost of one million dollars during what music journalists have described as a “cocaine blizzard”, which album of 1979 features the songs Sara and Not That Funny?

Tusk

(by Fleetwood Mac)

2.

Which Italian sportswear company was the named sponsor of Bolton Wanderers’ home ground between 2014 and 2018?

Macron

3.

Which six-letter word connects: landed nobles of nineteenth-century Prussia such as Otto von Bismarck, and a position held by aspiring officers in the Waffen-SS?

Junker

4.

In baseball, what is the name given to the fence behind the homeplate which is designed to protect spectators from wild pitches or foul balls?

Backstop

5.

Running from 2005 to 2016, which television show featured 'pilgrims', the 'dream factory', and the 'blues cruise'?

Deal or No Deal

6.

The 2007 film Battle in Seattle depicts the violence which erupted in protest at the 1999 conference of which organization?

World Trade Organization

7.

Which word connects: chemical elements 'whose atom has a partially filled d sub-shell' and an event in American politics which last occurred between 8 November 2016 and 20 January 2017?

Transition

8.

Also known as a plebiscite, what is the gerundive form of the Latin verb meaning 'to carry back'?

Referendum

Sp1

At 499 kilometres in length, what passes through the fictional village of Puckoon?

The Irish border

Sp2

Inaugurated in 1834 and in time covering most of central and eastern Europe, the Zollverein was an early example of which kind of cooperative organization?

Customs union

Theme: Brexit

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ROUND 8 - Hidden theme - 'It was 20 years ago today'

1.

With nicknames including 'The G-Men' and 'The Big Blue Wrecking Crew', which sports team plays its home matches at the Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey?

New York Giants

2.

Running for 24 episodes between 1964 and 1970, which comedy show introduced the world to Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling and The Leaping Nuns of the Order of St Beryl?

Not Only ... But Also

3.

Born in Ealing in 1899 with the surname Norway, which novelist adopted a nom de plume in order to protect his aeronautical engineering career from potentially negative publicity?

Nevil Shute

4.

Known as 'The Master of Disaster', which director and producer was responsible for movies such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno?  He also created the TV series Lost in Space.

Irwin Allen

5.

"London is trying to strip us of the means of knowledge by loading the press, the colleges, and even ... a News-Paper, with restraints and duties."  To which legislation of 1765 do these words of John Adams refer?

The Stamp Act

6.

Who won seven Grammys for her 1991 album Unforgettable With Love which featured cover versions of songs made popular by her father?

Natalie Cole

7.

Which now-prominent politician was sacked from The Times in 1988 for inventing a quote from his godfather, the Oxford historian Colin Lucas, for a story about the discovery of Edward II's palace?

Boris Johnson

8.

The daughter of Minnie Riperton and the wife of P T Anderson, which actress appeared on Saturday Night Live between 2000 and 2007?  Her other credits include Bridesmaids, Grown Ups, and The Good Place.

Maya Rudolph

Sp1

Under The Iron Sea, Perfect Symmetry, and Strangeland are among the number one albums of which piano- and synth-driven band from Sussex?

Keane

Sp2

Coloured either yellow or green depending on its ripeness, which specific citrus fruit is used to flavour Earl Grey tea?

Bergamot

Theme: Members of Manchester United's treble-winning squad of 1998-99...

Yorke; Butt; Neville; Irwin; Stam; Cole; Johnson; May; Keane; Berg

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