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Q1 If Ms Ullmann is 54, a painter who was coruscating about Weimar Germany is 509, and a compere (again perhaps in Weimar Germany) is 1100, what does that make Jane Tennison, George Gently and Alan Banks?

Q2 (from John Slater)听 How might a spear, a hatch and a wood regularly precede, respectively,听a thoroughfare, an intersection and Legolas and Katniss?

Q3 (Music)听 How might these share a common link with the 麻豆社 announcement of the outbreak of World War II?

Q4 (from Ian Wolf)听 One has switched from fizzy water, with some urgency. Another drowned in the Thames and had a life-jacket placed on his coffin. A third makes a complete mess of things. And a fourth is a name well worth channelling. Where would you have to go, and when, to get your hands on any of them?

Q5听 Which regeneration might call to mind a Lord waking from slumber in Constantinople (in 1928); a blind seer (in the time of Christ); and a university professor mutilated in a dystopian future (in 1977)?

Q6听 (Music)听 Why would the compilers of this programme probably be lost without these three?

Q7听 The quintessential snake-strangling strong man; David's adversary; Corrie's Ken; and the 36th US President's wife - which one might have been out of place in the Star-Club?

Q8听 A naturalist, originally studying marine mammals in Cardiff but then switching to conifers in Nicosia, travels to work in Santiago but finds it too cold. He moves to hotter climes in Doha, only to suffer from mucous inflammation. He tries a spell selling lubricants in Athens, and finally settles in Seoul to spend the rest of his working life. Given his track record, where might he choose to eat Christmas dinner?

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With which field might Al Jolson, the building stone of the British Museum and the Cenotaph, and a patriarch with twelve sons, all be associated?

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