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Going into today's contest all of the teams have played three times in the current series, and this is how the RBQ league table stands:
1聽 Midlands聽 聽Played 3聽 Won 3聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 63
2聽 North of England聽 聽P3聽 W2聽 D1聽 L0聽 Pts 63
3=聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽P3聽 W1聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 53
3=聽 Scotland聽 P3聽 W1聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 53
5聽 Wales聽 聽P3聽 W1聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 51
6聽 South of England聽 聽P3聽 W0聽 D1聽 L2聽 Pts 58聽 聽

Last week we asked why Martin Scorsese might approve of a Scottish goalkeeper, the inventor of the hole-in-the-wall cashpoint, and a 'shrewd and knavish sprite' in Athens?
The sprite we were thinking of is Puck, in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, who is also referred to as Robin Goodfellow. The man generally credited with the invention of the ATM cash machine is the scientist James Goodfellow. And Ryan Goodfellow is a goalkeeper currently playing for Edinburgh City.
As Goodfellows, they might attract Scorsese's attention because one of his most successful pictures was Goodfellas.

Q1 (from Nigel Choyce)聽 What meal might you have shared with the following: a generic chauffeur, a founding club of the Football League, a wet participant of the winning Boat Race team and a small amount of salad dressing?
Q2 (from Thomas Halliday)聽 The owner of a Magic cockatiel consumes a crab soup, and passes through a member of Celtic FC with a Misunderstood manager. What could he be playing at?
Q3 (from Ivan Whetton) Music: Why might this music bring to mind a type of rechargeable battery, a 17th century plotter and Prufrock's life-measurer?聽
Q4聽 Explain how you could turn from: getting the ball over the line in rugby, to attempting聽 musical piece for the first time; manoeuvring a seagoing vessel, to packaging and dispatching a young bull; leaving your bread under the grill for too long, to raising a glass to a stream in northern Britain?
Q5聽 If Don Draper, Basil Fawlty's father and a castle frequented by Gibbs are found in the middle of a town in Kent, what time of day is it?聽
Q6聽 Music: Why might these suggest the protocol of buttons?
Q7 (from Sarah Rowland Jones)聽 Why might a household Baby, with Blake's small innocent, and a Bronte heroine, with Bogart's bird, together lead you West-ward?
Q8聽 Why might it seem possible to inter insectivorous mammals in Shropshire, a New Year offensive in the Cotswolds, Arsenal football club in Chiswick, and both Leopold and Molly in WC1?

This week have a think about the following question:
Why might The Glossy Years, The Dancer Upstairs, Nathaniel's Nutmeg and One Pair of Hands all prove confusing for literary critics?
We'll provide the answer next time.