In my controller I have the following action to get records and return IQueryable records,

var records = GetRecords()
.Select(entry => new
{
      List = entry.Select(sl => sl.Names).Distinct().Take(3).ToList()
})
      .Select(s => new
{
      Entry1 = s.List.FirstOrDefault(),
      Entry2 = s.List.Skip(1).FirstOrDefault(),
      Entry3 = s.List.Skip(2).FirstOrDefault()
});

I did this to try and lower the database hits from the following,

var records = GetRecords()
.Select(s => new
{
      Entry1 = s.Select(sl => sl.Names).Distinct().Take(3).FirstOrDefault(),
      Entry2 = s.Select(sl => sl.Names).Distinct().Take(3).Skip(1).FirstOrDefault(),
      Entry3 = s.Select(sl => sl.Names).Distinct().Take(3).Skip(2).FirstOrDefault()
});

Is there a better way to get the List to use 3 of the elements in different variables and return an IQueryable.