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Tom's question was: If The Wooden Horse, Whisky Galore and The Code of the Woosters are the first three, why could you find the fourth at St James' Park?

The writers of those three titles are, respectively, Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and P.G. Wodehouse. Each of these writers shares a name with an 18th century British Prime Minister - Walpole, Compton and Pelham (P.G. Wodehouse's initials stand for Pelham Grenville).

These were in fact the first three British Prime Ministers in sequence. The fourth, succeeding Henry Pelham in 1754, was the Duke of Newcastle - which is why you might look for him at a landmark of that city, the football ground St James' Park.

All six teams have now played at least one match in the current series. The league table before today's fixture looks like this.

1聽 SOUTH OF ENGLAND聽 Played 2聽 Won 1聽 Drawn 1聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 41

2聽 THE MIDLANDS聽 P2聽 W1聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 38

3聽 WALES聽 P1聽 W1聽 D0聽 L0聽 Pts 23

4聽 SCOTLAND聽 P1聽 W0聽 D1聽 L0聽 Pts 19

5= NORTH OF ENGLAND聽 P1聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 16

5=聽NORTHERN IRELAND聽 P1聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 16

Q1聽 Why might an energetic indoor game, followed by an argumentative session of campanology and a trip to see a movie set on Skull Island, rounded off with a sociable evening around the piano, be a harmonious way to spend a day?

Q2聽 If Frazier's was freezing, Mann's was enchanted and Proulx's had a spinal injury, what did Baldwin want you to do on his?

Q3聽 Music - Why might these people rule over Commissario Brunetti's creator, Sergei Sedov's father, and Jean Reno?

Q4聽 Why does finding the connection between DeMille's epic, an Agatha Christie whodunit, a re-telling of The Taming of the Shrew, and the framing of Timothy Evans, lie in your own hands?

Q5聽 Which well-known slapstick character, after impertinently addressing an American woman, might sustain ocular bruising and renal soreness, and then make a hasty get-away?

Q6 (from David Collard)聽 Music - What do these pieces have in common with the author of 'the finest French novel in the English language' and Aldous Huxley's story of artists and intellectuals?

Q7聽 Why should we feel very affectionate towards a Revolutionary Daughter, Peter's shadow seamstress, Forfarshire's saviour and a pen-pushing desk-sucking blotter-jotter?

Q8 (from Colin Daffern)聽 In the1970s and 80s, why might your Saturday afternoon entertainment have been provided by Wainwright's favourite fell, a city devastated by a Fat Man, the offspring of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, and a man you'd have hesitated to call Shirley?

If a gathering includes twelve who are religious, thirteen who are guiltless, thirteen who are courageous, and eight who are city-dwellers, why would only one make an impression - and who are they all?

There are no prizes - but you can see if your solution matches Tom's when he explains at the beginning of the next edition.