大象传媒

Q1聽 How might we begin with a powdered meal and progress by steps to a flying mouse, a bright-eyed composer and finally to the object of Compo's affections?
Q2聽 Why might Dr Frankenstein, Malcolm Tucker's second cousin once removed, and one of the developers of the Volcanic rifle, have concluded that it's a funny old world?聽
Q3 (Music)聽 Which of these four pieces describes the other three?
Q4 - from David Gilmore:聽 What relationship is there between the US government, a patriarch of Wimbledon, a passive resistor of slavery, a cola-drinking basketball player and just about everybody else (from the Widecombe area)?聽
Q5聽 Who lost one to a whale? Who lost one many years later from injuries sustained after a riding accident in 1937? Who married one? And who didn't really lose one while appearing in an Australian soap?聽
Q6 (Music) - from Ben Willcocks:聽 Can you explain how these three might help you avoid having to do the washing up?
Q7 - from Keith Scholes:聽 Where might you go to gather a hot Christmas treat, a leonine killer in a Sherlock Holmes story, a French violin string, a Machiavellian aristocrat, and Carroll's gullible and ill-fated youngsters?
Q8 - from Alan Mortiboys:聽 Why might Velcro be the fastening of choice for Pink Floyd, the Stax record label and the Donmar Warehouse?

Why might you be nervous about a film based on the life of Henri Charriere, a Schumann piano suite, a 1970s TV series starring Wendy Craig, and the operatic forerunner of Miss Saigon?
No need to write to us: just think about it and see if your answer matches Kirsty's when she reveals the solution at the beginning of next week's edition.