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Q1听 Midlands

Why do the following seem all confused? The one whom Roy鈥檚 drowning girl refuses to call for help; an Elizabethan woman of easy virtue; and a suit of armour for a horse.

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鈥淵ou say you can play the Chicago Piano, Mr Atkins? What complete nonsense!鈥� 听What might Pete Townshend make of these words?

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Q3听 Midlands

Music Question

Why might both of these performers share the same small patch of SW1 with the Golden Hind (and her captain), the star of Drive, and a recently retired off-spinner?

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Q4听 Wales

Music Question

Tell me why this combination would require you to keep a very straight face.

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Q5听 Midlands

One owned by an English sleuth, which started out as straight, became curved when it crossed the pond, and has remained so ever since.听听In 2009, one belonging to a French actor was infamously replaced by a windmill, but was reinstated two years later.听 That of a Belgian artist, meanwhile, has always denied its own existence.听 How so?

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Q6听 Wales

If you add information technology to check the books;

an explanation to create an exemplary war hero and cowboy;

and Jupiter's first moon to create sound 鈥�

which Commonwealth currency did you start with?

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Q7听 Midlands

(From Marjorie Wilson) One went on a pilgrimage, two brought about the downfall of a Shakespearean rogue, and three could have been four, but for an outbreak of scarlet fever.听 Who are they and how are they connected to a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell?

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Q8听 Wales

One preached, revolted and was executed; another gave birth to America鈥檚 first; and a third entertained with her Cuban husband. Why would they add up to a fit of weeping at the Antiques Roadshow?

A journalist working overseas checks into a Caribbean hostelry with a Hebrew woman, using a common pseudonym for unmarried couples, and arousing the doubts of the proprietor. To which wartime sequence does this all refer?听

It refers to the sequence of films made, consecutively, by Alfred Hitchcock during the first three years of the Second World War. A Caribbean hostelry might be a Jamaica Inn (1939); the Hebrew woman is Rebecca (1940) and the reporter is a Foreign Correspondent (1940); they check in as Mr and Mrs Smith (1941); and they arouse the proprietor鈥檚 Suspicion (1941).

Why might the location of your tomato plants seem similar to the dwellings of Benjamin Britten, Barack Obama, Vincent van Gogh and Park Geun-Hye?

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