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Last week Tom asked: Why might the King of Beasts claim to have cousins in California, Cornwall, Devon, Germany and Selkirk?
This was about breeds of cat: the 'King of Beasts' is of course the lion, the greatest cat of them all, and he has much smaller cousins all distinguished by the epithet 'rex'. The California rex, Devon rex, Cornish rex, German rex and Selkirk rex are all popular breeds of domestic cat.

Q1 (from Bill Armitage)聽 What is the link between a great composer who wrote one opera, a distinguished politician who served one presidency, an eminent artist who sold one painting, and a renowned footballer who scored one goal?
Q2 (from Tom McCoy)聽 Which Prince might question the following, and why: a drawing tool of moderate softness, a bunch of comically unteachable students, an inverted supertonic, or a sojourn in northern Corsica?
Q3聽 Music: By numerical logic, what might we play next in this sequence?
Q4 (from Mark Bloomfield)聽 Can you make a case for a staycation in Oxbridge, the site of two battles in 1777 (against the British), a diplomat, a set of sails, and a set of orders?聽聽
Q5 (from Tim and Sofia Smith-Laing)聽 How might a troglodytic anthropophage be related to Philip Heseltine and an unwelcome interruptor - and how might a member of the same group help you show deference?
Q6聽 Music: Explain what these pieces have in common.
Q7聽 Why might Santa be amused by a Vietnamese pastry-chef in London, the site of Smeaton's Tower, and an azada?
Q8 (from Terry O'Brien)聽 In which weekly publication might Raymond's lengthy one, Robert's universal dismissal, Christopher's Weimar-set departure and Philip's misleadingly-titled debut, not find a welcome?

In whose world might a pathetic cuckoo attend a funeral march in a tempest, and join a passionate hunt by moonlight in spring?
There are no prizes! but you can see if your solution matches ours at the beginning of the next edition.