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VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations; Peter McNeeley; Ronnie Kray's funeral; In 1953, he went to America, did a summer course at Harvard and worked as a bell-hop at a Howard Johnson hotel
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Hindu gods; protesting after Chechen rebels marched into the Russian town of Budennorvsk and took the town hostage; Kobe, Japan; Beijing
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Bill Clinton in his speech at Yitzhak Rabin's funeral
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American astronauts meet up with Russian cosmonauts in June; Muroroa Atol; The Reichstag, Berlin. Christo; Madrid
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They were reintroduced in May after more than 40 years; Sun Myung Moon; OJ Simpson found innocent; Tilda Swinton, The Serpentine Gallery, London; two months
Month by month
1 Kobe, Japan (hit by earthquake)
2 It was Nick Leeson's "Error Account" at Barings.
3 Norman Lamont
4 Oklahoma
5 Harold Wilson
6 John Major
7 Private Lee Clegg
8 Saddam Hussein, whose daughters fled to Jordan.
9 Douglas Hurd
10 Tuning in for the OJ Simpson verdict.
11 Nigeria
12 The Duchess of York - from her jewels.
Famous for 15 minutes
1b, 2d, 3l, 4g, 5k, 6h, 7f, 8j , 9a, 10i, 11e, 12c
Women
1e, 2h, 3a, 4b, 5f, 6l, 7j, 8g, 9k, 10c, 11d, 12i
Politics
1 Nicholas Soames
2 great crested newt
3 Jonathan Aitken
4 Stephen Norris
5 Edwina Currie
6 George Walden
7 The Irish referendum on divorce
8 Welsh Secretary
9 Brian Mawhinney (paint-throwing victim)
10 Michael Heseltine
11 Lord Nolan
12 Lionel Jospin
Marital relations
1e, 2g, 3a, 4i, 5f, 6j 7d, 8c, 9h, 10b
Frighten
1b, 2e, 3f, 4a, 5h, 6i, 7c, 8g, 9d, 10j
Sport
1 Donovan Bailey
2 He was blind
3 The ball was left in the picture.
4 Oliver McCall
5 Triple jump
6 Duncan Ferguson
7 Sardines to be thrown in the sea (according to Eric Cantona).
8 One
9 Red Rum
10 Smiling.
11 Evander Holyfield
12 Bobby Riggs
Sadly Missed
1 Peter Cook
2 Marti Caine
3 Lord Goodman
4 Donald Pleasance
5 Kenny Everett
6 Harold Larwood
7 Lord Lever
8 Lord Kagan
9 Juan Manuel Fangio
10 Brigid Brophy
Money, money, money
1a, 2b, 3f, 4d, 5j, 6c, 7e, 8h, 9g, 10i
Numbers
1-2; 2-7; 3-4; 4-8; 5-1; 6-3; 7-6; 8-10; 9-5; 10-9
Where in the universe?
1 Bermuda
2 Frankfurt
3 Warwickshire
4 Dayton
5 Liverpool
6 Skye
7 Walsall
8 Argentina
9 Jupiter
10 Bruges
Miscellaneous
1 Windows 95
2 Jerry Garcia (of The Grateful Dead)
3 Woody Allen
4 The merger between the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society and Lloyds Bank.
5 Alan Howarth
6 The prime minister of Japan
7 The beneficiary was Eton College.
8 The Churchill family
9 Richard Harris said it of Michael Caine.
10 Jean Chretien
11 The whipless Tory Euro-rebels.
12 They all went to Hackney Downs School.
13 Denmark
14 Slavery
15 Damien Hirst (the Turner Prize)
16 When the Dutch Bank Ing bought Barings for a nominal pounds 1, while accepting their debts of pounds 660million.
17 James
Bits and pieces
Clockwise from top left: Tony Blair, Divine Brown, Martin Amis, Liz Hurley, Paula Yates, Red Rum, Jonah Lomu, Michael Heseltine, Eric Cantona, Radovan Karadjic
One tale, 45 voices
1 Max Bygraves' catchphrase
2 The introduction to the film Star Wars
3 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4 1984 by George Orwell
5 The Waste Land by TS Eliot
6 "Rip it Up" Bill Haley, Elvis, et al
7 Philip Marlow in The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
8 The Sound of Music
9 The Masque of Anarchy by Shelley
10 Mean Streets
11 Marlon Brandon in The Wild One
12 Dionne Warwick song title
13 Allegedly the last words of Somerset Maugham
14 Jack Warner as Dixon of Dock Green
15 "Road to Nowhere" by the Talking Heads
16 "Doo-Wah-Diddy" by Manfred Mann
17 Dick Emery's catchphrase
18 Mike by PG Wodehouse
19 Rolling Stones song title
20 "Alfie" by Cilla Black
21 Beatles song title
22 Proverbs of Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, according to Bartlett's
23 Paul Simon song title
24 Bette Davis on a passing starlet
25 "The Spider and the Fly" by the Rolling Stones
26 Philip Marlow in The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
27 Cliche passim
28 Mae West
29 Frederick Molnar when asked why he became a composer
30 Beatles song title
31 "She Was a Sweet Little Dickie Bird" by George Beauchamp
32 The Godfather
33 From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
34 Elvis Presley song title
35 The Bridge by Hart Crane
36 Johnny Rotten in 1977
37 Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction
38 Strother Martin, the prison boss in Cool Hand Luke
39 Marlon Brandon in On the Waterfront
40 Tabloid press passim
41 Sigmund Freud in a letter to Marie Bonaparte
42 The Monkees song title
43 The catchphrase of The X-Files by Chris Carter
44 Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind
45 Dorothy Parker reviewing The House at Pooh Corner in the New Yorker, 20 October, 1928
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