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The Round Britain Quiz league table going into today's contest stands as follows:
1 South of England聽 聽Played 2聽 Won 2聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 43
2 Wales聽 聽P2聽 W1聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 39
3 Midlands聽 聽 P1聽 W1聽 D0聽 L0聽 Pts 22
4 Scotland聽 聽P1聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 19
5 Northern Ireland聽 聽P1聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 18
6聽 North of England聽 聽P1聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 17

At the end of the previous edition we asked: Which of our regular Round Britain Quiz teams might initiate a meeting with the director of Walkabout, then with the singer of 'All Tomorrow's Parties', and finally with a Scottish actor who played Merlin?
The answer is Northern Ireland - because the letters NI initiate a sequence that continues with Nic (as in Nic Roeg, the director of the cult movie Walkabout), progresses to NICO (who sang with The Velvet Underground on the song 'All Tomorrow's Parties', and others) and finally to NICOL (as in Nicol Williamson, the Shakespearean actor who played Merlin in John Boorman's Dark Ages thriller Excalibur). So you add a letter each time.聽
Kirsty will have another teaser at the end of today's programme.

Q1 (from Ian Pittaway)聽 Which musical Scot might connect eight consecutive steps, half of a rock dinosaur, and one who predicted that the insurrection would go unbroadcast?
Q2 (from Anne Mitchell)聽 Why could you get tangled up by a bachelor boy, a Dawley man, a Fabian woman, a Wonderful salad and a new watcher of the skies?
Q3聽 Music: What horticultural connection might there be between these pieces?
Q4聽 How could a small coin, a tall tree, a grower of fruit and an aqueduct near Stockport assist Miss Miller with her investigations?
Q5聽 If yesterday was mainly Lillian Bellamy, before Microsoft Azure led to Diana's stepmother, why might tonight see Passepartout's master followed by the first Poet Laureate of Vermont?
Q6聽 Music: What links this piece to a Swiss creation dating from a year without a summer, the first palindrome and the six-foot alter-ego of Stuart Goddard?
Q7 (from Stephen Durnford)聽 How might a stick of Ferula communis used as a hiding-place, a vicious eagle and a case of nocturnal hepatic regeneration, take you eastward to a rockface?
Q8聽 If sounds are slower off the coast of Florida but faster in a car in the capital of Texas, why might an Indonesian dragon be comfortable and a Russian place sad?

Why might it be dangerous to encounter any of the following, if accompanied by a riotous Dickensian hero? An archaic measurement of precious metals; a hot priest; a Corporal who tried not to panic; and part of a Vivaldi violin concerto?
See if you've arrived at the same solution as us when Kirsty reveals the answer next time.