Good Novels Described Badly
A man called Ken
2 Letter Words
'Metal' Music
'Double-oh' History
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After a series of hallucinations, an old miser buys a big bird for someone else's family (1843)

What Is A Christmas Carol?

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this top rated 'popmaster' worked on radio 2 for more than 30 years

Ken Bruce


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highly desirable but not easily attainable, one of four muscle groups located between the ribs and pelvis on the front of the body

Ab

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this 'gilded' new romantic hit never made it to #1, kept off the top spot by 'Give it up' by 'KC etc'

GOLD

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when the 18th amendment was ratified in the US, it led to the widespread production and sale of this alcohol

Moonshine (accept hooch)

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Four sisters - one dies, one opens a school, one marries a friend and the other marries that friend's tutor (1868)

Little Women

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guest vocal for  Blur song 'Ernold Same' was provided by this future Mayor of London

Ken Livingstone

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poem that ends 'yours is the earth and everything in it, and - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!"

If

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TERM ESTABLISHED IN 1976 FOR An album WHICH SELLS A MILLION COPIES (us) or 300,000 (uk) 

Platinum

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as part of D-Day thousands of these soldiers were dropped in Normandy behind enemy lines

Paratroopers

75

A dystopian lads holiday except they're all children and two of them die (1954)

Lord of the Flies


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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

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primitive, instinct driven part of our psyche says Sigmund

Id

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an instrument of torture, supposedly, but there is no evidence it actually existed

Iron Maiden

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After the assassination of William McKinley, this 42 year old became the 26th and youngest PotUS ever

Theodore Roosevelt

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Despite the title, 4 french blokes don't shoot things, high jinks ensue (1844)

The 3 Musketeers

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famous for his suede shoes, this 'big beast' was the last tenant of 11 downing street before Gordon Brown moved in

Ken Clark

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Chamber pot, fictional lover of pink custard and a european river

Po

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this prestigious music award was awarded for the first time to Primal Scream for 'Screamadelica' in 1992

Mercury Music Prize

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the rochdale pioneers created this type of business enterprise that is controlled and run by and for its members

co-op

150

Snobs convince a girl to dump her boyfriend but they get back together 8 years later (1817)

Persuasion

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"They think it's all over - it is now" 1966 World Cup Final

Kenneth Wolstenholme

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in hindu scripture, the primordial sound of creature

Om

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David Guetta's collab with Sia was his 5th #1 and her 1st

Titanium

150

DAILY DOUBLE!

This famous battle didn't take place in the town of the same name, but was actually fought along the nearby Mont-Saint_Jean Ridge

WATERLOO

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