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The Round Britain Quiz league table this series, going into today's contest, looks like this:
1聽 Scotland聽 聽 聽Played 2聽 Won 1聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 1聽 Total points 35
2聽 North of England聽 聽 Played 1聽 Won 1聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 20
3聽 Wales聽 聽 聽 Played 1聽 Won 1聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 19
4聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽 Played 2聽 Won 0聽 Drawn 1聽 Lost 1聽 Total points 36
5聽 South of England聽 聽Played 1聽 Won 0聽 Drawn 1聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 19
6聽 The Midlands聽 聽 Played 1聽 Won 0聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 1聽 Total points 19

Tom asked: If a musical comedian met a Star Wars actress wearing a knitted sweater, and their restaurant meal cost more than 拢39 but less than 拢50, what kind of fish did they order?
The Star Wars actress we had in mind was Carrie Fisher, the musical comedian Bill Bailey, and the knitted sweaters might be Fair Isle sweaters. If you got this far, you may have seen a pattern involving shipping forecast areas around the UK.
So their restaurant bill would be in the Forties - and the most likely fish for them to order would therefore have been Sole.
There'll be another teaser at the end of today's broadcast.

Q1聽 How might your scramble to listen to a maternal deity, wake up ruffled with a disruptive one, and unloose Fred and Wilma's pet to find a shape-shifting one?
Q2聽 If you were in Freetown and wanted to get to an art school in London, how would Phil Tufnell and Laurie Lee be able to help you?
Q3 (Music)聽 Why might you find this performer, along with a bright star known to Auden and a European space rocket, in the Mojave desert?
Q4聽 A group of deciduous trees, a bibulous pre-war American comic, the pseudonym of musician Mike Skinner, and a father-and-son racing dynasty... according to a very famous speech, which piece of terrain is missing?
Q5聽 What's singular about Peter Lorre in Berlin, Josh Brolin in the White House, Tony Harrison in a graveyard and the assassination of Yves Montand?
Q6 (Music)聽 What kind of person might use these?
Q7 (from Flora Scarabello)聽 If I start dancing in Germany, begin running in France, slow down in Spain and finish up with a jig, what sort of hotel room am I in?
Q8聽 Number 1 comes from a country where the dragon faces the flagpole. Numbers 2, 3 and 4 come from a city with DNA in its DNA. Number 6 comes from a county where Ted Dexter and Imran Khan both felt at home; and number 7 comes from a town near a famous public school.Which city do numbers 8, 9 and 10 come from?

Why might Arthur Balfour have been especially grateful to Blackadder's love interest, Ford's running mate and the most famous son of Eltham?
Solution next week!