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Tom asked: Eight Spaniards and a 1960s American singer with a conscience might easily find a line they weren't supposed to cross. Why?

The Spanish word for eight is ocho; which, with a change of final letter,听might suggest the American protest singer Phil Ochs, who was most active in the 1960s. Changing the final letter again gives you the oche, the line behind which players have to stand when aiming at a dartboard. Ocho-Ochs-Oche.

Well done if you hit the target with that one. There'll be another teaser to think about at the end of this programme.

Q1听 From Dimity Castellano: What could it be about a telephone call, an ecclesiastical building, a blood-stained outhouse and a trans-continental journey that might make the granddaughter of a Labour leader put pen to paper?

Q2听 In which fields of the arts would you admire, respectively: Billy of the Bull, Joe Greens, and Sandy Little-Barrels - and who are they?

Q3听 From Steve Goddard and Joe Houlihan:听 (Music)听 How old would you be if these people were your grandchildren?

Q4听 Add an insect to: a thoroughfare, to get the Great White; an uneven gait, to get a Colonel of the silver screen; a rodent, to get a spoiled child; and what God commanded, to get agricultural devastation.

Q5听 From Chris Channing:听 Shirley refused and Doris wavered, but a blonde and a brunette accepted - all of them repeatedly. How so, and who are they?

Q6听 From Jock Barge:听(Music) 听Why might an Irish poet, a policeman from Lochdubh, Othello's deceiver, a prominent Leaver and a South American with the divine touch enjoy this?

Q7听 If you add together a novel featuring a repetitious American army officer and one written by a Governor-General of Canada, you could reach - perhaps not for the first time - a road that used to link their two countries. Which road?

Q8听 How could the Globe Theatre help an edible seed to be comic, a star to be alone, some clothes to want to be alone, and someone grumpy to be Julius Henry?

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If you were unkind, how might you describe the fish-processing capital of Great Britain, W.S. Gilbert's house, and Norman Wisdom's boss?

The solution will appear next week.