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Last week's teaser was from listener James Smith. He asked:

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Where would you find the following in control: an error indicator in Microsoft Excel, a Sherlock Holmes story, diphenolchloroarsine and a double word score?

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The error indicator which sometimes pops up in Microsoft Excel is a green triangle. There is a Sherlock Holmes story (in His Last Bow) called The Red Circle. Diphenolchloroarsine was a key ingredient of the World War II chemical agent known as Blaukreiz or Blue Cross. A double word score in Scrabble is indicated by a pink square.

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A green triangle, a red circle, a blue cross and a pink square are the symbols on the four buttons of a Sony Playstation controller.

All of today's questions have been chosen from the listeners' ideas we've received over the past year.

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Q1 (from Barbara Jennings)听 What binds together an oleaginous fictional clergyman, a police officer, a bullfighting horseman, the ladies and gentlemen of the Press, a 1950s Prime Minister and an intellectual district of London?

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Q2 (from Judith Ainsley)听 Put the following in order: A South Bank landmark, the protagonist of a Bette Davis film, a river in the south west of England and a female farm animal.

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Q3 (from Bill March)听 Music - Where might these singers be led by finding questions in a mailbox?

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Q4 (from Richard Ellis)听 Why would one be very concerned by the absence of an early morning flagship, tailless inhabitants on a contested outpost, and Shakespeare's croaking birds?

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Q5 (from Paul Slade)听 What's the fatal connection between Billy Lyons, Laura Foster and Al Britt? And which one's lover gave Jamaica's capital threesome a singular success?

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Q6 (from Ivan Whetton)听 Music - Two of these usually work together, the听other gives additional security. Can you explain?

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Q7 (from Richard Hookway)听 How might the battle of 1066, the Fonz, Bach in the movies, Wilson of Walmington, a suave cricketing thief, and a reluctant hitch-hiker, find themselves on first-name terms?

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Q8 (from Richard Saunders)听 How might you progress from a lover of Charlie Chaplin to Ursus maritimus, then to what you might hear from Julian and Sandy, and finally to UGM-27?

This is how the Round Britain Quiz league table looks as we enter today's contest. Wales are now unstoppable, with four victories out of four: but second place in the series is still undecided.

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1听听Wales听 Played 4听 Won 4听 Lost 0听 Total points 87

2听 South of England听 P4听 W2听 L2听 Pts 77

3听 Northern Ireland听 P4听 W2听 L2听 Pts 62

4听 North of England听 P3听 W2听 L1听 Pts 56

5听 Scotland听 P4听 W1听 L3听 Pts 70

6听 The Midlands听 P3听 W0听 L3听 Pts 45