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Tom asked: What does Melrose Abbey have in common with the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, and Stinsford in Dorset?
The answer is that they are all locations where a famous person's heart has been buried, separately from the rest of them.
Melrose Abbey is the burial place of Robert the Bruce's heart - the rest of his remains are in Dunfermline.聽
Frederic Chopin's heart was removed from his body before he was buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris in 1849, and interred in a pillar in the Church of the Holy Cross in the city of his birth, Warsaw.
On his death in 1928 Thomas Hardy was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, but his heart was buried with his beloved first wife in the graveyard at Stinsford just outside Dorchester.

Q1 聽In decades gone by, you might have visited Ireland and found Holland, then visited Holland and found Israel, then visited Wales and found England, In that case, where would you have found Brazil?
Q2 (from David Wells) 聽Despite what you may hear, can your opponents really count on the support of an African opposition politician, a Trainspotter and an unfeasibly glamorous cave-woman?
Q3 (from Gwyn Seymour) 聽If you add one to this trio, you might get Damien, Attilla, Desmond or Douglas, depending on how hard you work, If you add another two, you include everyone in the world, but especially Kevin. Explain!
Q4 聽Why might a citizen of Nuuk feel a sense of irony when visiting the capital of the Yukon, a harbour town in Cumbria and the highest peak in the Alps?
Q5 聽Why might the author of The Periodic Table, an anti-apartheid campaigner and Pam Ewing seem appropriate companions for King Louie?
Q6 (from Kieran Sidley) 聽How could these pieces all lead you to a white Christmas?
Q7 聽Explain how the burgomaster of Braunau came to a hairy end in 1567, eight people met a snowy end in Lewes in 1836, and 21 people came to a sticky end in Boston in 1919?
Q8 (from Richard Rawles) 聽Where could you find the following all laid out: the mispronounced Doctor in Vienna, a sparkling American conductor, or Mrs Jean Cox?

The author of Chaos Walking, Elizabeth I's astrologer, and a criminal portrayed by Warren Beatty - which one is the shortest, and why?
No need to write in or email with the answer, it's just for fun and we'll explain it next time.

With each team now having played twice in the current series, this is how the RBQ league table looks before today's contest.

1 聽Wales 聽W2 聽L0 聽Total points 432 聽South of England 聽W1 聽L1 聽Points 403 聽North of England 聽W1 聽L1 聽Points 394 聽Scotland 聽W1 聽L1 聽Points 355 聽Northern Ireland 聽W1 聽L1 聽Points 326 聽The Midlands 聽W0 聽L2 聽Points 27