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The 2020 RBQ league table going into today's contest is as follows:
1聽 Wales聽 聽 Played 3聽 Won 2聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 1聽 Total points 59
2聽 North of England聽 聽P2聽 W2聽 D0聽 L0聽 Pts 40
3聽 South of England聽 聽 P2聽 W1聽 D1聽 L0聽 Pts 37
4聽 Scotland聽 聽P3聽 W1聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 51
5聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽P2聽 W0聽 D1聽 L1聽 Pts 35
6聽 Midlands聽 聽P2聽 W0聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 36

Tom asked: If Barker and Corbett encountered, sequentially, Kieslowski's colours, Blyton's adventurers, Tarantino's undesirables and Thurber's timepieces, how many pilots would they meet next?
These clues give you numbers in ascending order: The TWO Ronnies, the THREE colours trilogy, the Famous FIVE, the Hateful EIGHT, Thurber's THIRTEEN clocks.
This is a Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the previous two. The next number in the sequence (and the answer to the question) must therefore be 21 - as in the rock band, 21 Pilots.
Well done if you solved that: there'll be another teaser at the end of today's edition.

Q1聽 A Scottish river can be found between black and black, as can a late colleague of Les Dennis. But a spelling competition and the chemical compound 3,4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine can each be found between black and white. Where?
Q2 (from Rob Cruse)聽 A piece of crockery which you are fond of; two amphibians making way; two musical instruments that may be worn; vegetables that should Be Prepared; and fruits that you ascend and descend. All of these are the talk of the town - but which town?
Q3 (Music)聽 Why might you find all of these 'undercover'?
Q4聽 If Cyndi's are high and sparkly, Gary's barely sees us through the year, George's is not spoken about and Reg's just wants to dance, why is everybody talking about Dan's?
Q5聽 If the element between iron and nickel were found by 'Grasshopper' it would become an illegal substance. If found by a tragic osteopath and socialite it would create a chicken. And if found by a well-known singleton diarist it would give her some distinctly male characteristics. Can you explain?
Q6 (Music - from Jim Coulson)聽 Apart from playing these pieces of music, what else could we be playing?
Q7 (from Martin Berzins)聽 A breed of beef, a fermented sauce and half of a dairy product suggest one trio. A solo sailor, a 19th century Prime Minister and an American who made guns suggest another trio. When they come together each year there is often coverage by the 麻豆社 - on which long-running programme?
Q8聽 Why might a Spenserian shepherd, a Wilkie Collins detective and three villages in the Test valley all provide Christos Tsiolkas with hard-hitting sequels?

Which Nobel laureate's legacy includes a Biblical love lyric, a doll intended to trap a rabbit, a superlatively-coloured facial feature and an entire musical genre?
Don't write to us: there are no prizes, but you can see if your solution matches ours at the beginning of the next programme.