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Kirsty asked: 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?聽
The answer is that they might give you 'butterflies' - because their titles are butterflies (in either English or French).
Papillon is the film based on the adventures of Henri Charriere, who survived incarceration on the notorious 'Devil's Island' in French Guiana. It starred Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen and was remade in 2017 with Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek.
Papillons, Op.2 was a suite of pieces for piano by Robert Schumann written when he was 21.
Butterflies was the Carla Lane sitcom which ran on 大象传媒 television from 1978-83, based around the Parkinson family and starring Wendy Craig with Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Andrew Hall.
Madama Butterfly, Puccini's opera premiered in 1904, inspired the musical Miss Saigon.

Q1 (from Michael Hipkins)聽 How could Alan Clark's controversial history of the Great War, depending on gender, produce either a smuggler of drugs or a person viewed with affection in the North-east?

Q2 (from Mickie Wynne-Davies)聽 How do a Scottish castle, the ghost of Elly Kedward and a former Prime Minister connect to a writer of dystopian fiction?
Q3聽 Music: What do these three pieces have in common?
Q4 (from Jonathan Perry)聽 Why might you or I complete the following sequence: The Spice Girls, the Hindu god Brahma, the guard-dog offspring of Echidna and Typhon, the inventor of the Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blaster?
Q5聽 Why might James Brown want you to take him to the setting for a Wordsworth sonnet of 1802, a Venetian prisoner's last lookout, and a place where he'd be feeling groovy?
Q6 (from Martin Jameson)聽 Music: Explain why the fourth describes the other three.
Q7 (from Alex Melnick)聽 Why would addressing a letter to the composer of a Christmas Song, the creator of a Norwegian Hole, an MI6 officer who created an MI6 officer, the originator of Elyot Chase and a Mocking presenter, have caused a problem for the typing pool?
Q8聽 What's the connection between one of the most prolific British writers of detective stories, tectonic plate theory, and Wensleydale cheese?

Why would the sound of clapping be out of place in the company of cricketer Richie, actress Yvonne and singer Gilbert?
There are no prizes but you can see if your answer matches ours when we reveal it next time.