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We asked: When faced with a Venetian mystery, an apocalyptic threat from space or a tour by Bob Dylan, why had you better avert your gaze?
The answer is because they refer to:
Don't Look Now, the Nicolas Roeg horror film starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, about the couple in Venice looking for clues about their small daughter's death, based on the story by Daphne du Maurier;
Don't Look Up, the 2021 satire by Adam McKay about a comet hurtling towards earth and the complacent reaction of the political establishment; and
Don't Look Back, D.A. Pennebaker's classic documentary about Bob Dylan's 1965 tour, which includes the famous sequence of him holding up and throwing away placards bearing the lyrics to Subterranean Homesick Blues.
So all of them are advising you to avert your gaze in one direction or another.

Q1聽 If, one night, you encountered Caxton's successor, the current US Secretary of State and Neville John Holder, what might they be about to set off in?
Q2聽 What property connects a Marvellous scientist who became an ironically huge success, Richard Matheson's 1956 title character, and a submarine crew that included Raquel Welch?
Q3 (from Ivan Whetton)聽 Music: What miraculous concoction did these people have cause to thank?聽
Q4 (from Michael Gedrim)聽 If you were to use shortcuts to go from the Pelican to the Peace Garden, then the First, and finally the Yellowhammer, how would you arrive at an arrangement that secured the first in the list and the largest in the union?聽
Q5聽 What connects the murderous student Mr Edison, the Pulitzer Prize-winner who provided Sinatra with an autumnal hit, and a young star who was lost in space?
Q6聽 Music: Who might grant these people admission?
Q7聽 Why might the Grimm Brothers' old woman, Tolkien's fourteen-foot Fangorn, Bernini's Daphne and Patrick Ness's nocturnal visitor share something worse than their bite?
Q8 (from Chris Channing)聽 What is inhuman about: an avian superhero on Broadway; a captivating vamp incarcerated in South America; and a prodigious Victorian cause celebre; and which shape-shifting maidens of legend might identify with them?

If the 'Father of the Poor' provides a home for Lionel Messi and often competes with the patron of headaches, why might you languish on the beach with the patron of Pisa, or head for somewhere more bracing to meet the patron of pig-keepers?
Kirsty will reveal the solution next time and you can see if you came up with the same answer!