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Tom's closing question last week was:

Take Peggy Mitchell's sister to the Dance of the Seven Veils, going via the Italian Social Republic and a tragic Spanish motorcyclist.

Peggy Mitchell's sister in EastEnders (played by Anna Karen) is named Sal. The Dance of the Seven Veils, meanwhile, is a notorious聽feature of the opera 厂补濒辞尘茅, by Richard Strauss. That might lead you to conclude that the way from one to the other involves adding a letter at a time.

The Italian Social Republic was the Republic of Salo, established in Italy under Mussolini in 1943. Even if you've never heard of him you may now conclude that the motorcyclist is named Salom - in full Luis Salom, the Grand Prix rider tragically killed in an accident in 2016.

So the sequence is Sal-Salo-Salom-厂补濒辞尘茅.

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

The Round Britain Quiz league table going into today's contest, after nine fixtures,聽stands as follows - if ranked聽according to聽the number of outright wins.

1聽 SOUTH OF ENGLAND聽 Played 4聽 Won聽2聽 Drawn聽1聽 Lost 1聽 Total points 75

2聽 NORTH OF ENGLAND聽 P3聽 W2聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 55

3聽 WALES聽 P2聽 W2聽 D0聽 L0聽 Pts 40

4聽 SCOTLAND聽 P3聽 W1聽 D1聽 L1聽 Pts 54

5聽 THE MIDLANDS聽 P3聽 W1聽 D0聽 L2聽聽Pts 53

6聽 NORTHERN IRELAND聽 P3聽 W0聽 D0聽 L3聽 Pts 46聽聽聽

Q1聽 Where might you be preparing for battle if your arsenal featured spears, gunpowder, rocket and a bombe?

Q2聽 In what situation might a hawk, a monkey and a mole all be likely to get the blame?

Q3聽 Music - Why might you be listening to Marie Lloyd?

Q4聽 An athletics ceremony, held periodically, awards medals to seventy-nine winners, forty-seven runners-up, and an indeterminate number of third places. Fifty cans of beer are available as refreshment. By this logic, how many police officers are needed to keep order?

Q5聽 One answered to Nanki-Poo, another used music to introduce sexual politics after the watershed, while聽a third has traded in her Test Match bat for a pen. What unites them - and why might they feel at home among the pages of A.S. Byatt's 'Frederica Quartet'?

Q6聽 Music - How could the addition of the first to the second give you the third?

Q7聽(from Richard Condon)聽 Where would you be if you were discussing the management of: an alloy of tin, antimony and copper; a Romanian motor car; an ill-fated ocean liner; a fruit salad; and an island in a seat of learning?

Q8 (from Richard Spicer)聽 How might a boatswain and a pilot claim kinship with the 'mute confederate' Carlo and the 'gentleman and scholar' Caesar?

Can you connect the Prime Minister's residence with Samuel Pepys and the island of Martha's Vineyard?

Warning: it's a tough one this week. There are no prizes, but you can check if your solution matches Tom's when he explains at the beginning of the next edition. Good luck!