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1. (From David Williams) Something you take on holiday but never use until you come home can be found made of granite in Tasmania, of stone in the silent era, golden in Milton, and brand new in a pop song. What is it?听

2. (From Lyn Armstrong) What would happen if a lady of easy virtue, two theatrical accoutrements, a pair of fastening devices and a favourite haunt for lovers were to collapse?

3. Music question: Why might Laertes anoint his sword with these?

4. Music question: When these are assembled correctly, why would Miss Oakley be ready to perform?

5. (From Ralph D. Camp) How did the creators of two famous University towns and a mountain range in north eastern Italy combine, only to decline in the south Ribble district of Lancashire?

6. (From Steve Dasey) In what way could a gruff NCO, a priestly victim of the Antichrist, a larking Chief Petty Officer, and a mad monk, successively be said to have impersonated a police officer from 1963 onwards?

7. (From David Barnes) If you need programme notes for the second movement of the third Brandenburg Concerto, look no further than:听

One of Doyle鈥檚 Significant Four;

EB White鈥檚 first children鈥檚 book;

Dionysius and the Christian calendar; and

Herbert Khaury, tiptoeing through the tulips.

Why?

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8. Why are these already in order? A colloquial goodbye; a province and city on the Zambezi; a Queen of Ancient Egypt; Dorothy鈥檚 transported terrier; and a Cape Town Primate?

We asked what Allan Quatermain, and the daughter of two Muggle dentists, might do to a book?

The part of Allan Quatermain in the 1950 film of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines was played by Stewart Granger. In the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, the daughter of two Muggle听(ie. non-wizard)听dentists is Hermione Granger.

They might collectively 'Grangerise' a book - which is a 19th century term meaning to fill a printed book with personal cuttings, pictures, annotations and memorabilia. It derives from the Rev James Granger's Illustrated Biographical History of England, a long-popular work which featured blank pages and spaces allowing people to do just this.听

Congratulations if you got the right answer!

Things that might be used to centre your hearing, hunt for pollen, or achieve a score of 50, might all make Little Ted happy. Why?

No need to e-mail or write to us with the answer, it's just for fun - but we will reveal the answer at the beginning of听next week's programme.