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Tom asked: Where might you go straight through the landscape to encounter a nursery shepherdess, a displaced Bard, and the 'place of the skull'?

These are all clues to intriguingly-named railway tunnels in the south-east corner of England.

The Bo-Peep tunnel ('a nursery shepherdess') near St Leonards is thought to be named after a local inn.

The Shakespeare tunnel near Dover is named for Shakespeare Cliff, the supposed setting of the scene in King Lear where the blind Gloucester is deceived into thinking that he has thrown himself off the cliff-top and magically survived. The clue says 'displaced' because the cliff and the tunnel are nowhere near Shakespeare's听birthplace, nor the London theatres where he found fame.

The hill of Calvary in Jerusalem is also known as Golgotha - which, according to the Gospels, means 'the place of the skull' because of its resemblance to the shape of a skull-cap. The Golgotha tunnel is on the East Kent railway.

There'll be another teaser at the end of today's programme.

Q1 (from Jim Coulson)听 How might a learning experience for military personnel leave you with the leftovers - and why would they all be the same, only different?

Q2听 Of Human Bondage, 9 for 57 in 1994, possible predecessors of the Inuit, and the remover of a vile jelly: in which part of the UK will you find them?

Q3 (from Keith Scholes)听 Music - What would make you want to eliminate all of these?

Q4听 Why might Cervantes and Byron have considered writing about the North Stand of Elland Road, Sonny Crockett and 'Lofty'?

Q5听(from Alan Stockwell)听 A French one became a King; an English one has a coat of many colours; one is friends with a bear in Nutwood; and a small one was jeered at because of听a deformity, but rose above it. Who are they, and why would everyone prefer not to mention them?

Q6 (from Simon D Forrest)听 Music - Why would these pieces end, respectively, the blue, the red, the green and the purple?

Q7 (from Charles Gilman)听 Why might Winston Churchill's low spirits, the attractiveness of Anna Sewell, the majesty of P.G. Wodehouse and the immortal servant of Richard Adams be considered their b锚tes noires?

Q8听 Why might a former Olympic field athlete throw a party, inviting the following guests: a furious Scotsman, an optimistic South African, a Chilean musician, a supporter of the Green Party resident in West Africa, and a Greenlander who was unable to stay for very long?

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Augustus created Stephen as a home for Ben, but was rather late for the opening ceremony. Will made an acrobatic attempt to stop it. Stephen is now Elizabeth, and they all stand in silence. Can you explain?

There are no prizes, but the solution will appear at the beginning of next week's programme.