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Tom gave you the sequence: Folkestone & Hythe, Witney in Oxfordshire, Doncaster North, Camberwell & Peckham - and asked what comes next?
These are the parliamentary constituencies of the most recent Leaders of the Opposition: the sequence gives us Michael Howard, David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman. So they would be followed by Jeremy Corbyn whose constituency is Islington North.
(To be strictly accurate Harriet Harman should appear twice in the list, having spent two brief spells as Leader of the Opposition either side of Ed Miliband.)

Q1 聽Why might Richard Wilson be incredulous at a motorbike, a boys' comic, Dr Frankenstein and the Radio Corporation of America?
Q2 (from James Heafield) 聽Why ought you to ask permission from Mum and Dad before taking tea with primates, sending an e-mail to an Oceanic domain, or reading the works of Plum?
Q3 聽Music: What can you read into this sequence, and in what languages would you originally find them?
Q4 (from John Villiers) 聽Why might you expect to find a Jumbly girl's admirer, the writer of 'Living Doll' and 'From Russia With Love', and a short sleep, in a vault in the Lion City?
Q5 聽In what kind of landscape might you encounter a veteran Spectator cartoonist, one who was sculpted in solid gold, and the inventor of a reliable test for arsenic?
Q6 聽Music: Why would these be unlikely to involve A and E?
Q7 聽Why might there be total chaos if Henry VIII's wives went on a tour of the hills of Rome; the founder of Eton College danced to Richard Strauss's Salome; and a group of French composers recited blessings at a Jewish wedding?
Q8 (from Peter Stockdale) 聽What is the symbolic connection, in a literary sense, between the following:A fishing line sinker and a skylark;An atomic clock and a river adventure in Africa;The gods' winged messenger and the invasion of the earth;A noble gas and the Larkin family? 聽

In what sense do a beautiful cup-bearer, the mother of King Minos of Crete, a priestess transformed into a cow, and a nymph transformed into a bear, now encircle their lover?
Don't write or e-mail with the answer: there are no prizes, it's just for fun! Tom will reveal the solution next time.

With just one match each left to play, this is how the teams stand on the RBQ league table before today's contest.
1 聽Wales 聽 Played 3 聽Won 3 聽Lost 0 聽Total points 632 聽North of England 聽P3 聽W2 聽L1 聽Pts 563 聽Northern Ireland 聽P3 聽W2 聽L1 聽Pts 51 聽4 South of England 聽P3 聽W1 聽L2 聽Pts 56聽5 聽Scotland 聽P3 聽W1 聽L2 聽Pts 516 聽Midlands 聽P3 聽W0 聽L3 聽Pts 45