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We asked: In whose world might a pathetic cuckoo attend a funeral march in a tempest, and join a passionate hunt by moonlight in spring?
The answer is Beethoven's - because the question contains the nicknames of eight of his sonatas, all but one of them for piano.聽
Piano sonata no.8 is the Pathetique; no.25 is the Cuckoo; no.12 is the Funeral March and no.17 the Tempest. No.23 is the Appassionata, no.18 the Hunt and no.14 the Moonlight. And the odd one out (although we didn't ask this) is the final one, Spring, which is the name of his violin sonata No.5 in F major.

Q1聽 Why would a singer with a Black Bottom and a musical orphan's benefactor look up to an American folk artist, and which heavyweight champion boxer of the 60s might in turn look up to them?
Q2聽 Why might Edgar's foul fiend, a cartoon spirit with Kenneth Williams's voice, and Charlie Cairoli, appear insoluble?
Q3聽 Music:聽 What do these pieces have in common?
Q4 (from Peter Slater)聽 Why might you prefer to avoid the journalist son of the late Bishop of Whitby, the midwife Jennie Lee, a town near Altrincham and a former 麻豆社 radio newsreader?
Q5 (from Terry O'Brien)聽 Why might the following form a portentous quartet: Herbert's invasion story, Daniel's 365-day chronicle, Patrick's great hunger, and Ernest's post-meridian event?
Q6聽 Music: What could be the family connection?
Q7 (from Neil Hadfield)聽 Which landmark on Floyd Road, London SE7, might get you part of the way towards the ground between Fedioukine and Causeway, where Lancashire is found in Yorkshire, and a Mourneful place beneath the Slieves?
Q8聽 What could be considered contradictory about: a former English chess champion taking a holiday in a California tourist resort; a writer best known for Yorkshire-set thrillers visiting a historic East Sussex abbey town; and a northern cartoonist corresponding with a South American footballer?

Dev Patel getting lost; Riz Ahmed trying to blow things up; Copenhagen getting a sculpture; and Frank Skinner singing. Can you put these in the correct order?
There are no prizes! - but you can see if you're right when we reveal the solution next time.

The Round Britain Quiz league table going into today's programme stands as follows:
1聽 The Midlands聽 聽W1聽 D0聽 L0聽 聽Total points 22
2聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽 W1聽 D0聽 L0聽 聽Total points 18
3=聽 South of England聽 聽W0聽 D1聽 L0聽 聽Total points 21
3=聽 North of England聽 聽W0聽 D1聽 L0聽 聽Total points 21
5聽 Scotland聽 聽W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 聽Total points 19
6聽 Wales聽 聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 聽Total points 17