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Ten familiar 'British' things that are actually French in origin:
Babar the Elephant
Golden Delicious apples
'My Way'
The Magic Roundabout
Ravel's Bolero
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Madame Tussaud's
'Autumn Leaves'
Les Miserables
'The Carnival of the Animals'
Ten well-known people who are named after a county in the British Isles:
Devon Malcolm
Clark Kent
Susan Hampshire
David Essex
Dionne Warwick
Ann Clwyd
Richard Cork
Jonathan Ross
Tyrone Power
Inspector Wexford
Ten well-known people with the same name as a lager or a beer:
Stella Rimington
Will Carling
Fatima Whitbread
Alfie Bass
Audie Murphy
Frank Worthington
Truman Capote
Jackie Mann
John Smith
Richard Burton
Ten expressions meaning 'anthology' that are used in book titles instead of 'anthology' by publishers who do not want to frighten people by using the word 'anthology':
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Best of. . .
A Feast of. . .
Garland of. . .
Child's Garden of. . .
Treasury of. . .
Oxford Book of. . .
The . . . Annual
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Ten 20th-century place names:
Industrial Estate
Garden Village
New Town
Parkway
Towers
Bull Ring
Barbican
Complex
Motor Lodge
Mall
Ten modern playwrights who are not called 'Howard':
Michael Frayn
Simon Gray
David Hare
Willy Russell
Tom Stoppard
Edward Bond
Alan Bleasdale
Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Bennett
Alun Owen
Ten well-known people with only first names and no surnames:
John Birt
Philip Norman
Barry Norman
Barry John
Naomi James
Clive James
Lenny Henry
Jeffrey Bernard
Hugh Thomas
Cliff Richard
Ten well-known people who have only surnames and no first names:
Rowan Atkinson
Courtney Pine
Lindsay Anderson
Hunter Davies
Ross Perot
Linford Christie
Melvyn Bragg
Daley Thompson
Auberon Waugh
Harrison Ford
Ten names that use letters in a disturbingly foreign way:
Qatar
John le Carre
Provencal
Lech Walesa
Pwllheli
Noel Coward
Antonin Dvorak
Luis Bunuel
Hans von Bulow
Sinead O'Connor
Ten jazz musicians who changed their names in their own lifetime: Stephane Grappelli (formerly Grappelly)
Phil Napoleon (Filippo Napoli)
Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand La Menthe)
Red Norvo (Kenneth Norville)
Georg Brunis (George Brunies - apparently he shortened his name on the advice of a numerologist)
Eddie Lang (Salvatore Massaro)
Yusef Lateef (Bill Evans)
Gil Evans (Gilmore Green)
Red Rodney (Robert Chudnik)
Shorty Rogers (Milton M Rajonsky)
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