Families
1 Chekhov's Three Sisters.
2 Antigone.
3 The Jackson 5.
4 The World is Not Enough.
5 David and Frederick Barclay.
Films
1 CS Lewis.
2 Jaws, Star Wars, ET.
3 The Bridge on the River Kwai.
4 Woody Allen.
5 Played young Abraham Lincoln (in Young Mr Lincoln) and young Winston Churchill (in Young Winston).
Books
1 Graham Greene.
2 The Corrections and Freedom (by Jonathan Franzen).
3 Peter Stothard.
4 The longest novel ever written.
5 Dan Brown.
Alcohol
1 Babycham.
2 John Smith's.
3 Because of preferences expressed in the film Sideways.
4 Nicolas Sarkozy.
5 Beer Street.
Journeys
1 The Incredible Journey (in the book by Sheila Burnford about two dogs and a cat travelling across Canada).
2 Sail through the Suez Canal.
3 They are the two ends of the Channel Tunnel.
4 Air Miles.
5 Roald Amundsen's to the South Pole.
TV
1 Doctor Who.
2 The European Broadcasting Union.
3 EastEnders.
4 Oxford.
5 The Naked Chef.
Music
1 Stiff Records.
2 Ralph Vaughan Williams.
3 Bagpipes.
4 Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
5 Radiohead.
Stocking fillers
1 Haunted.
2 White: White's; the Beatles' White Album; "White Christmas".
3 Dick Whittington and his Cat.
4 Card games.
5 The first Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4.
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