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Tom asked: If Abba recorded a minus two, Fleetwood Mac a minus three and Simon & Garfunkel a minus four, what might we be talking about?

This was about song titles which refer to golfing terms. Two under par is an eagle (Abba's song Eagle appeared on their 1978 release Abba: The Album). Three under is an albatross (recalling Fleetwood Mac's no.1 hit of 1969). Four under - needless to say extremely rare - is known as听a condor (and Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water album included their arrangement of the听folk tune El Condor Pasa).

Well done if you worked it out: Tom will set another teaser question at the end of the programme.

Standings in the 2015 series after four games:

Scotland听 Played 2 Won 1 Drawn 0 Lost 1 Total points 29

Midlands 听P1 W1 D0 L0 Points 20

South of England 听P1 W1 D0 L0 Points 17听

Northern Ireland 听P2 W0 D0 L2 Points 23

Wales听 P1 W0 D0 L1 Points 16

North of England 听P1 W0 D0 L1 Points 12

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Q1听 Can you rearrange: something that smells of rotten eggs into a rapid transport project; a volcanic emission into a defunct computer operating system; and a laxative magnesium compound into a text-speak exclamation?

Q2 (from Ronald Monroe)听 What's deceptive about a tree-dweller said to look ursine; a vegetable said to be sweet; and a fruit acknowledged as pyriform? And what are they all really?

Q3 (Voices)听 If this were a music question, which instrument would we hear?

Q4 (from Ivan Whetton)听 Why might you find the following in Rhodes's company: a gathering of morris men, the rescuer of a well-held cat, and two actors in a Saga?

Q5听 Why might the man who documented Bob Dylan's tour of Britain be interested in a US prosecuting official, the unified atomic mass unit, and a teddy boy's haircut?

Q6 (Music)听 Listen to these three pieces and suggest another to complete the set.

Q7听 What would Fred Hoyle think of a writer of pulp Westerns, a Restoration Archbishop of Canterbury, a prison reformer, and British India?

Q8听(from Michael Trevett)听 Where would you be, what would you be doing, and with whom would you be doing it, if your companions were the main settlement on the Isle of Mull, the capital of New Zealand, a long South American river and a French town where a rebellion was brutally suppressed in 1793?

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Ulm in Germany; Philadelphia, New York, Chicago; Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Dubai. To what does this sequence of places refer?

No need to contact us with the answer: it's just for fun, and Tom will reveal the answer at the beginning of the next programme.