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Tom asked: If one was celebrated for finding a trophy, one went into orbit, and a third met his fate on the road back from Porlock, who were they, and which one survived?
Well done if you spotted that these are three famous dogs in post-war history.
Pickles, a black and white collie, found the Jules Rimet trophy a week after it was stolen in March 1966, a few months before the World Cup tournament in England. When England won the cup, Pickles was invited to the celebration banquet.
Laika was a stray dog from the streets of Moscow shot into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Sputnik 2 in November 1957, to test the effects of space travel on living creatures. She died from the heat, probably within hours of the launch.
Rinka was Norman Scott's Great Dane, shot on a lonely road between Porlock and Combe Martin in Devon in October 1975 by the man allegedly hired to kill Scott himself. The episode provided a memorable scene in the 2018 TV drama A Very English Scandal with script by Russell T. Davies.
Clearly the only one who survived was Pickles, although he died in a rather sad accident the year after his fleeting fame.

The rankings going into today's contest are:
1聽 The Midlands聽 聽Played 2聽 Won 2聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 362聽 Wales聽 聽P2聽 W1聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 383聽 North of England聽 聽P2聽 W1聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 334聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽P1聽 W1聽 D0聽 L0聽 Pts 195聽 Scotland聽 聽P2聽 W0聽 D0聽 L2聽 聽Pts 326聽 South of England聽 聽P1聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 19

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Q2聽 What would you do if an alumnus of a famous public school, Lou Ferrigno, an item from the toolbox, a conqueror of the ancient world, the mother of a President and Eliza Doolittle all turned up in a bar?
Q3聽 (Music) Why might these extracts lead you back in time?
Q4聽 If a grumpy king of Sweden got together with Vorombe titan, a fiery St Erasmus and Cleveland the 22nd and 24th, who took the biscuit and in which seedy area would they live?
Q5聽 How might the Catalonian national anthem, a Discworld novel and a fearsome chilli from Carolina all bring you closer to death?
Q6 (Music - from Ivan Whetton)聽 What do all of these contain that could help you to cut your cloth?聽
Q7聽 A British rock group; a unit of electricity; an admission of ignorance; an English and Welsh river; what follows the sun and precedes the medley on Abbey Road; 24 hours from now; and a defunct British newspaper. Who's the remaining player?
Q8 (from Bruford Low)聽 Cut the following in half, put them in the correct order and identify what's missing: A fairy tale opening; a stripper trying to earn Rent; a dead bird; an island race; somewhere you can find a piano-playing Gosling; and something neither good nor bad.聽

Put the following in chronological order:
Bryan Adams in 1985The Four Seasons in 1976Michel Legrand in 1971.
See if your solution matches ours when we reveal it next time.