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Tom asked: How might you size up compromising photos in 1946, a ransom demand in 1998 and sleight of hand on the stock market in 2015?
The size they have in common is Big - because they all refer to movie titles which are The Big something. Compromising photographs are central to the plot of the Bogart movie The Big Sleep, made in 1946. A ransom demand in a movie of 1998 might lead you to the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski. And a 2015 film uncovering decidedly risky dealings on the stock market was The Big Short.

Q1聽 Where might the Duchess of Cambridge, the writer of The Debt To Pleasure, and the star of Worzel Gummidge, reasonably go to test their eyesight?
Q2聽 Can you place in order of rank: Billy Campbell's detective, a comedian soon to develop a taste for time travel, and a poet who wrote that 'most women have no characters at all'?
Q3聽 Music:聽 Which underground station completes the compass?
Q4 (from Tim Ball)聽 Take a mythical ship, load it with goods, and send it first to a city in North Dakota, and then to a city in Florida, slowly.聽
Q5 (from Stephen Durnford)聽 Why might you find a sightless one, who isn't, a North American one, who isn't, and a titled one, who isn't, celebrating an anniversary in the Midlands countryside?
Q6聽 Music: Why is it appropriate that we've placed the last of these after the others?
Q7聽 How might Groucho's unusual encyclopaedia, and Henri Matisse's model, muse and manager, find themselves in the ancient kingdom ruled over by Croesus?聽
Q8 (from Jonathan Perry) Why might the following all give you a sense of deja vu: the singers of Kyrie and Broken Wings; a famous footballing father; a Polynesian island paradise; normal vision; and a diamond David Bowie single?聽聽

Why might the King of Beasts claim to have cousins in California, Devon, Cornwall, Germany and Selkirk?
Sorry, there are no prizes! The answer will be revealed next time.