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Q1听 Simon Bar-Jonah, Jan Ludvik Hoch and The Caretaker gather to mourn the Master. Which Master?

Q2听 A shanty town in the Depression, the principle of the听free market, and a 21st century programme of health insurance, are all in the dictionary, but a long way apart - so what do they have in common?

Q3听(Music)听 Why might these make you think of Tanya Rachevskaia's Montparnasse tombstone, Dante's lovers in marble, and a glittering highlight of the Golden Period?

Q4听 If I told you that the writer of this question came from Galway, why might you expect him to claim a kind of kinship with someone from the Croatian coast, a citizen of Strasbourg, a denizen of Gdansk, and the late Muhammad Ali?

Q5 (from Christopher Garner)听 Explain who the following are, and who their common creator was. One just too young to be a Swubble, but just too old to be an Unwin; one re-named after a German-born composer; one who is no-one and whose ship keeps sinking?

Q6 (Music)听 What links these three pieces, and why would it not be a weighty problem for the Hollies?

Q7听 What kind of box would suit namesakes of Spiro, Ernst Stavro, Captain Charles Cunningham and Mr Nice?

Q8 (from Quintus Benziger)听 What kind of companion links a male trio who journeyed down a river, a group of men who cut down a field, and a pair who frequented an Italian city?

Tom asked: How could the State of Louisiana, a shark that's surprisingly spotted, and Beecham's encores, all help the chicken?

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The Pelican State is the nickname for the state of Louisiana, and a Zebra shark is a species听which is striped when young (hence its name)听but then听becomes spotted as an adult. These both give us names for common pedestrian crossings in the UK - and conductor Sir Thomas Beecham used to give his concert encores the nickname 'Lollipops' - which would also assist in crossing the road.

Have a think about this, just for fun,听until the next programme:

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If the middle Kardashian sister met one of the Cambridge Five and a youthful spy in British India, what game might they play?