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With just two matches left, the 2021 league table going into today's competition stands as follows:
1聽 North of England聽 聽Played 4聽 Won 3聽 Drawn 1聽 Lost 0聽 聽Total points 82
2聽 Midlands聽 聽P3聽 W3聽 D0聽 L0聽 Pts 63
3=聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽P4聽 W1聽 D0聽 L3聽 Pts 69
3=聽 Scotland聽 聽P3聽 W1聽 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 53聽聽
3=聽 Wales聽 聽P3聽 W1 D0聽 L2聽 Pts 51
6聽 South of England聽 聽P3聽 W0聽 D1聽 L2聽 Pts 58

The question was: Why might The Glossy Years, The Dancer Upstairs, Nathaniel's Nutmeg and One Pair Of Hands all prove confusing for literary critics?
These are the titles of books by authors whose surnames are also those of literary giants.
The Glossy Years is an autobiography by Nicholas Coleridge.The Dancer Upstairs is a novel by Nicholas Shakespeare.Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a work of non-fiction by Giles Milton.One Pair Of Hands is a novel by Monica Dickens, who (unlike any of the others) is directly descended from her famous namesake, Charles Dickens being her great-grandfather.
Tom will have the last teaser question of the current series at the end of today's edition.

Q1 (from Joe Houlihan)聽 If Charles Dickens' last novel contains the work of Erskine Childers, and both are embraced by Alan Turing's foe, which country are we in?
Q2 (from John McIntosh)聽 How could a short-term 19th century Prime Minister, a 20th century humanist campaigner and a Victorian manufacturer and town builder help you make it through the winter?聽
Q3聽 Music: Who might have cause to be suspicious of these?
Q4 (from J. Michael Walton)聽 If the second is a bird, the third a relation, the fourth a number of relations and the fifth a place for growing fruit, what's the first, and why?聽
Q5 (from Lynne Edmondson)聽 In what sort of work might you find a small winged mammal, a German-speaking part of Italy, a late rapper who didn't have wings, and a volcanic lump in the Forth?
Q6聽 Music: Which 20th century cultural figure do these pieces all suggest?
Q7聽 Among German mountains, the good one is inventive, the beautiful one is musical, and the precious one is entertaining - but the flowery ones are treacherous. Can you explain?
Q8聽 What could make you doubt the nationality of: Edward, a composer of comic operas, Nancy, a journalist who met a tragic end, and Dawn, a revered comedy writer and performer?

Today's teaser has been set by Malcolm Ruthven:
What might connect a pair of dear old ducks with a Devonian denomination and a panorama by Frith?
Join us next time to discover the solution.