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This is how the Round Britain Quiz league table for 2022 currently stands, going into today's contest, with all six teams having played twice.

1聽 South of England聽 聽 Played 2聽 Won 2聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 43
2聽 Midlands聽 P2聽 W1聽 D1聽 L0聽 Pts 42
3聽 Scotland聽 P2聽 W1聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 40
4聽 Wales聽 聽P2聽 W1聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 39
5聽 North of England聽 聽P2聽 W0聽 D1聽 L1聽 Pts 37
6聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽P2聽 W0聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 37

Kirsty asked: How did an extra-terrestrial voyage, a Satanic dwelling and an awful dream help Melies become a pioneer?
Well done if you recognised the name of Georges Melies (1861-1938), an early pioneer of cinema and most particularly of special effects and on-screen illusions. His short horror, sci-fi and fantasy features have become classics of the genre, involving multiple exposures, time-lapse photography and other devices not tried before.
The question references three of his creations: A Trip To The Moon (1902), House Of The Devil (1896) and A Nightmare (1896). Sequences from the first of these appeared in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo, which in part pays tribute to Melies and his contribution to the magic of the silver screen.

Q1聽 What's the numerical connection between Ruskin's illuminated buildings, Empson's varieties of uncertainty and Lawrence's supports to sagacity?
Q2聽 How could you get the following mixed up? A multi-award-winning television star, DJ and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador; a rhesus macaque who became an unwilling pioneer; and a composer who made a stagework of the Bluebeard legend.
Q3聽 Music: What comes next in this sequence?
Q4 (from Stephen Moore)聽 Can you explain why a bride's mother might want to visit the football teams from Luton, Northampton and Yeovil, but pass up a similar visit to the team from West Bromwich?
Q5聽 Why could a compound formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid give you a basis for an other-worldly Uncle, a child's ability to make you spend money, and the process of carbon capture?
Q6聽 Music: Why might the subjects of this piece sally forth with Colfer's criminal mastermind, a football club in Bergamo and John Ravenscroft?
Q7聽 聽Why could you be forgiven for labelling a vast Russian museum, the ninth papal castle, a roasted hillside and the father of Jesus, as though they were all from the same valley?
Q8 (from Dr Andrew Doole) If you put the letters in order you'll have continental novels, two attempts at a Brazilian football team, a group of ancient Celts, and a people who erected a Wonder of the World for their goddess, to name but five. Who is keeping in touch?聽

How might an Official War Artist for posters, the composer of The Haunted Ballroom聽and F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional screenwriter all help you to pass the time?
Good luck working this one out: we'll begin the next edition of Round Britain Quiz by revealing the solution.