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With each team having just one remaining match to play, this is how the RBQ 2020 league table looks, going into today's contest.
1聽 South of England聽 聽 Played 3聽 Won 2聽 Drawn 1聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 56
2聽 Wales聽 聽P3聽 W2聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 59
3聽 North of England聽 聽P3聽 W2聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 58
4聽 Midlands聽 聽P3聽 W1聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 55
5聽 Scotland聽 聽P3聽 W1聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 51聽
6聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽P3聽 W0聽 D1聽 L2聽 Pts 46

Last time, Tom asked: Why might you find Beth Ditto, Harry Angstrom and a member of the Monkees at a castle in County Cork?
Beth Ditto was the singer in the Us rock band Gossip. Harry Angstrom is the everyman hero otherwise known as Rabbit, of the John Updike novel sequence that began in 1960 with Rabbit, Run. The member of the Monkees we were looking for was the late Peter Tork.聽
Allowing for standard English pronunciation, Gossip, Rabbit and Tork are words that suggest garrulousness or a tendency to verbalise. The Irish might describe it as having the Blarney, after the famous stone at Blarney castle in County Cork which is supposed to bestow verbal gifts on all those who lean over the ramparts and kiss it.

Q1 (from Alex Melnick)聽 How did a small amount of money, the easternmost point of Ireland, a city in Tasmania, a lot of blood, and the third most populous city in Texas, all come to hold second place in the United States?聽
Q2聽 San Francisco's speeding Bullitt unites a man calling the shots for a group of vengeful widows, a troubled fashionista, and a flashy hero of the racetrack. Why?
Q3 (Music)聽 Why might these three pieces help you get to the other side?
Q4聽 Male mirth, female cursing and the language of legumes: how would each give up some space to produce a lethal crime, female apparel, and a fairy tale challenge for Jack?
Q5聽 In what way do a pioneering computer scientist, Margo Channing's biggest fan, the 'Last King of Scotland', William the Conqueror's half-brother, and Alfred Jarry's grotesque hero, form聽 a sequence?
Q6 (Music - from Chris Neale)聽 Why are the first four of these pieces all brought together by the fifth?
Q7 (from Tim Haughton)聽 Why might a poor mark in your exam allow you to turn excellence into fairness, stride into escape, and a flower into a festival?
Q8聽 The disciple brother of James, a barrel maker and someone who works in an office together turn their hand to poetry.Someone in a Biblical den takes 1,440 minutes to get to a Scottish island where they win several Oscars.Someone ostentatiously smart moves from the capital of the Isle of Man to a part of south Manchester, and becomes Prime Minister, but not for very long.Who are they all?

If a computer company scores minus 6, a disgraced pop duo score minus 3, and the people who turned down the Beatles score 1, which heavy metal band scores 6?
Don't write to us: there are no prizes, but you can see if your solution matches ours when Tom reveals it next time.