The Ten Most Populated Towns in England in 1377*

1. London (40,000 people)
2. York (12,100)
3. Bristol (10.600)
4. Coventry (8,000)
5. Norwich (6,600)
6. Lincoln (5,900)
7. Salisbury (5,400)
8. Lynn (5,400)
9. Colchester (4,900)
10. Boston (4,800)

*With apologies to Ian Mortimer (who did all the work)

Ten Posh Ways To Eat Toast

1. Toasted and then turned inside out
2. Done on one side
3. Anchovy toast
4. Roasted marrow on toast
5. Canapé Martha
6. Melba toast
7. Welsh rarebit
8. With beef dripping
9. Pain Perdu
10. French toast

Ten Courses At TyvenKokkenHansKoneogHendesElsker, February 5, 2001

1. Foie gras
2. Halibut with mussels, roe, rice cracker and mussel sauce
3. Herring with fennel on eggy bread
4. Terrine of rabbit with red pepper purée, herb & orange sauce and rabbit's kidney
5. Lobster Ravioli with fish soup & dried bacon cracker
6. Deer with cocoa sauce and beetroot & pomegranate mousse
7. Shot of hibiscus jelly
8. Artichoke pastry
9. Goats cheese sorbet
10. Stack of 15 mini pancakes with banana & cinnamon ice cream

Ten Things I'd Never Noticed On Beatles Songs Before

1. John Lennon saying 'Cor' at the end of Twist And Shout
2. The sand shaker in She's A Woman
3. The handclaps on I'm Looking Through You
4. The laughing at the end of Within You And Without You
5. The ad-libs in the background of the first 'la-la-la-las' in Hey Jude
6. Ringo counting himself in during the orchestral break in Good Night
7. The '…lia' bit of Julia
8. The fireman's bell in Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
9. The harmonium in the verses of We Can Work It Out
10. John Lennon singing 'I' instead of 'you' in What You're Doing

Ten Eskimo Words For Dog

1. Kringmerk - dog
2. Issorartuyok - lead dog
3. Apadlerpak - last dog
4. Assinaitok - untied dog
5. Kalibjarpok - dog trying to break loose
6. Pameiyut - dog with tail up
7. Uniyok - jealous dogs
8. Immoriktok - curled up dog
9. Kattingolarpok - grunting dog
10. Malarpok - yelping dog

A Choice From Every Course* Of The RMS Titanic's First Class Menu For 14 April 1912

1. Oysters à la Russe
2. Consommé Olga
3. Pouched Salmon with Mousseline Sauce
4. Vegetable Marrow Farci
5. Calvados-Glazed Roast Duckling and Apple Sauce
6. Punch Romaine
7. Roast Squab on Wilted Cress
8. Asparagus Salad with Champagne-Saffron Vinaigrette
9. Pâté de Foie Gras
10. Waldorf Pudding

*Not including the cheese, fruit or coffee

Ten Weird Books From Abe Books' Weird Books Room

1. Anybody Can Be Cool… But Awesome Takes Practice, Lorraine Peterson
2. How To Teach Physics To Your Dog, Chad Orzel
3. The Who's Who of British Beheadings, Geoffrey Abbott
4. The Beverly Hillbillies Bible Study, Stephen Skelton
5. Hanging Out: The Upside Down Exercise Book, Ira J Rappaport
6. Remember Your Rubbers! Collectible Condom Containers, GK Elliott, D O'Brien, G Goehring
7. Elvis After Life: Unusual Psychic Experiences Surrounding The Death Of A Superstar, Raymond A Moody
8. Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy And Pregnant Men In Early Spain, Sherry Velasco
9. The Bible Care For Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Don Colbert
10. Jewish Chess Masters On Stamps, Felix Berkovich

The Ten Slowest Half-Centuries in Test Cricket

1. TE Bailey, England v Australia, Bisbane, 1958-59: 357 minutes
2. CJ Tavaré, England v Pakistan, Lords, 1982: 350 minutes
3. BA Young, New Zealand v South Africa, Durban, 1994-95: 333 minutes
4. SM Gavaskar, India v Sri Lanka, Colombo, 1985-86: 326 minutes
5. Ramiz Raja, Pakistan v West Indies, Karachi, 1986-87: 318 minutes
6. CPS Chauhan, India v Pakistan, Kanpur, 1979-80: 316 minutes
7. Shoaib Mohammed, Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Lahore, 1993-94: 315 minutes
8. DJ McGlew, South Africa v Australia, Jo'burg, 1957-58: 313 minutes
9. JJ Crowe, New Zealand v Sri Lanka, Colombo, 1986-87: 312 minutes
10. BA Edgar, New Zealand v Australia, Wellington, 1981-82: 310 minutes

Ten Things Due To Happen In 2010 According To Science Fiction

1. Eviction of aliens from District 9 begins: Wikus Van De Merwe becomes infected and starts turning into an alien.
2. Drone robots created by humans to carry out construction jobs (Matrix Revolutions)
3. City of San Angeles is created after the Great Earthquake destroys San Diego and Los Angeles (Demolition Man)
4. The US Space shuttle fleet is retired (Enterprise)
5. HAL-9000 is re-activated (2010: The Year We Make Contact)
6. SG-1 attempt to send a message to the past to prevent earth's alliance with the Aschen Confederacy (Stargate)
7. Lars abandons his job as Assistant Director of the New York Aquarium and heads to the North Pole on a whaling boat (Futurama)
8. A new form of space-based energy is adopted (Arthur C Clarke)
9. The first baby is born on Arkadia (Space 1999)
10. Construction begins of the Trans-Atlantic Tunnel (Harlem Heroes, 2000AD)

Ten Great Magazines That Closed Down in 2009

1. Arena
2. Vibe
3. Giant
4. I.D.
5. Portfolio
6. Blender
7. Domino
8. Gourmet
9. Observer Sport Monthly
10. Editor & Publisher

The Top Ten Top Tens Of Top Tens*

1. Grocerylist.org's top 10 Grocery lists
2. Nerve magazine's Top internet lists of 2009
3. Listverse's ultimate top ten lists
4. Kotaku's Top 5 list of top 10 lists
5. RSSSF's Top 18 top 10 FIFA footballers of the year, 1991-2008
6. McSweeney's List of ideas for ideas for lists
7. The Top Tens' most popular top 10s
8. ACF's 30 best top 10 lists ever
9. Endless Simmer's Top 10 top 10 food lists
10. Totally Top 10's top 10 Letterman top 10s

*Editors cannot guarantee all lists consist of ten entries

The Ten Squarest States In The US (Number One Being Squarest)

1. Wyoming
2. Colorado
3. Kansas
4. North Dakota
5. New Mexico
6. Utah
7. South Dakota
8. Pennsylvania
9. Nebraska
10. Arizona

Ten Answers To Beach Boys Songs

1. Nice? It would be AMAZING.
2. What, to EAT? Has anyone ever told you, you're really odd?
3. Yeah he's OK, but he's not all that.
4. The answer's in the question if you think about it.
5. Who else would it be?
6. Yes - and we'd like you to share it with the rest of the class, Wilson.
7. No, I'm sorry. We've got work to do. You can't daydream all your life.
8. So does my kid. But he's 18 months old.
9. Oh, now I'm holding you up?
10. That's really not any excuse is it?

The Ten Most Deadly Animals In The World (Average Annual Fatalities In Brackets)

1. Mosquito (Up to 2,000,000)
2. Snake (Up to 125,000)
3. Scorpion (Up to 2,000)
4. Big Cat (800)
5. Crocodile (Up to 800)
6. Elephant (Up to 500)
7. Hippo (Up to 150)
8=. Jellyfish (100)
8=. Shark (100)
10. Bear (5-10)

Ten Things That Make For Really Dull Lists

1. Favourite records
2. Goals
3. Items of shopping
4. Things to do
5. Gigs
6. Friends
7. Lovers
8. Achievements
9. Resolutions
10. Lists

My Top Ten Songs Of The Decade, Determined By The Number Of Plays On iTunes (Regardless Of Whether They Were Actually Released In The Last Ten Years)

1. Shack - Happy Ever After
2. Madonna - Burning Up
3. Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free
4. Brian Eno - Needles In The Camel's Eye
5. The Association - Never My Love
6. Beachwood Sparks - By My Side
7. Electrelane - More Than This
8. The Beatles - Come And Get It
9. David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town
10. Flowered Up - It's On

Ten Irish Writers Recommended By Kevin Rowland

1. Oscar Wilde
2. Brendan Behan
3. Sean O'Casey
4. George Bernard Shaw
5. Samuel Beckett
6. Eugene O'Neill
7. Edna O'Brien
8. Lawrence Stern
9. Philip Casey
10. Paeder Kearney

Ten Bands I've Somehow Managed To Avoid Seeing Live

1. Oasis
2. Pixies
3. St Etienne
4. Morrissey
5. Portishead
6. Bruce Springsteen
7. David Bowie
8. Grace Jones
9. Depeche Mode
10. Kraftwerk

Ten Uses of the Verbs 'Sough'/'Slough' by Norman Mailer

1. "...the soughing of surf" ('The Naked And The Dead')
2. "After a hundred yards they were forced to slough through..." ('The Naked And The Dead')
3. "Live with your cowardice… Hate it or defend it, but don't try to slough it off." ('The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts On Writing')
4. "…a New England wind… came soughing out of the sky" ('Advertisements For Myself')
5. "…even the sloughing of prejudice, particularly when it is abrupt, partakes of the naive" ('Advertisements For Myself')
6. "...the wind soughed through the draws" ('The Naked And The Dead')
7. "Whatever strait-jacket there had been about his movements lately would be sloughed off…" ('The Naked And The Dead')
8. "…as he had sloughed off Hearn" ('The Naked And The Dead')
9. "The president was, after all, getting into the same slough of muddy reasoning as the liberals" ('How the Wimp Won the War')
10. "there is still hope for me if only I can slough the hundred crimes upon my head" ('Barbary Shore')

Top Ten Causes of Injury in the Street in 1887 (number of injuries in brackets)

1. Light Cart (1,138)
2. Cabs (919)
3. Vans (683)
4. Omnibuses and Cars (346)
5. Broughmans and Carriages (345)
6. Heavy Carts (153)
7. Horses Ridden (135)
8. Wagons and Drays (133)
9. Covered Vehicles (67)
10. Velocipedes (53)