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Teams from all over the UK will face Kirsty Lang's cryptic questions across the series, with Kirsty offering support and the odd hint where it might be needed.

This eighth contest features the second meeting of Wales and The South of England.

You can follow the questions in each edition on the Round Britain Quiz webpages. Each week's questions will be posted on the day of transmission.

Teams:
Myfanwy Alexander and Cariad Lloyd
Paul Sinha and Marcus Berkmann

Questions in today's edition:

Q1 - (from James Rossdale) Why might meeting a Welsh star and a high-ranking policeman end up with you feeling sorry for them, but ultimately considering it a happy accident?

Q2 - Where would you find these people fighting over a hot potato in the 70s and 80s?
Alfonso Joseph d’Abruzzo
Harry Bratsburg
Jameel Joseph Farah
Loretta Jane Szwed

Q3a - MAIN
Music: once you’ve heard these three pieces I’d like you to tell me why they might lead to aposiopesis

Q3b - ONLINE VERSION
The following clues to our musical tracks might leave you… hanging. But why?
A meticulous feline from a hit stage musical.
The final, incomplete opera by an Italian maestro.
A legendary British soap character, known for her sharp tongue and endless cigarettes.

What connects them — and how might they lead to aposiopesis?

Q4 - Why might the creator of a famous fictional attorney, a prolific Bond novelist, someone who becomes a presidential adviser by mistake, and TWO Barefoot Contessas, all be prepared to get their hands dirty if they came round to my house?

Q5 - What sound reducing method would end this sequence? A naval friend, the dispensing of a punishment, a parasitic arachnid and a parable from the Sermon on the Mount?

Q6a - MAIN
Music: What link can you conjure up between the following tracks?

Q6b- ONLINE VERSION
See if you can conjure up the link between these four clues to our musical tracks:
A synth-pop classic that drifts into monochrome.
A disco anthem about a shadowy historical figure with a mystical reputation.
A haunting protest song from the 1930s, part of its title now shared with a Marvellous movie character.
A show tune from a Hollywood star, crazy about a boy who lived… long before his most famous version appeared.
What binds these four songs together, and which festive band might they help bring to mind?

Q7 - Why might you confuse a Billy Wilder romantic heroine, one of Charlie’s (original) Angels, a girl with a cat called Salem and a young singer with Taste?

Q8 - (from Nick Miller) In which atlas would you find the following? And where are they exactly?
The Island of Reil
The Haversian canals
The Sylvian aqueduct
Passavant’s Ridge
McBurney’s Point
and the Torcula of Herophilus/Herophilos – also called Herophilus’s Winepress.

Host: Kirsty Lang
Recorded by: Phil Booth
Sound Design: Chris Maclean
Production Coordinator: Caroline Barlow
Producer: Carl Cooper

Questions set by:
Lucy Porter, Alan Poulton, Paul Bajoria and public contributors.