Programme 8, 2023

The rankings so far this series, going into today's contest, are as follows:

1 Northern Ireland Played 2 Won 2 Drawn 0 Lost 0 Total points 43
2 North of England P2 W2 D0 L0 Pts 39
3 South of England P3 W1 D1 L1 Pts 54
4 Midlands P3 W1 D0 L2 Pts 59
5 Scotland P2 W0 D1 L1 Pts 37
6 Wales P2 W0 D0 L2 Pts 34

Kirsty asked: If Harry uses his design skills, Jeremy presses clean washing before putting it away, and Tom just sits patiently... who are they?
Well done if you realised these are famous names which are also two-word sentences: Harry Styles, Jeremy Irons, Tom Waits.

Q1 (from Jane Ann Liston) What might Sergio Leone make of Allan Quartermain's companion, a Michael Jackson album and a citrus fruit?
Q2 Why might you be likely to find an original Sex Pistol, Althea's Wimbledon partner, a journalist and peer who got to the heart of the matter, and a Yorkshire baritone, in or around a National Park - and which one?
Q3 (from Dr Oliver Thomas) Music: Why might the following come to the Rescue in your hour of need?
Q4 (from Mark Nellthorp) What communicative deity successfully bands together: the fourth Greek capital, melodious Marlow's loveliest word, and the final tale from a Bloody Chamber?
Q5 Why does no-one write to a Bond villain created by Kingsley Amis, Elvis's manager, a Trapped musician or an entrepreneur with a secret recipe?
Q6 Music: Can you place these in order from east to west?
Q7 Why might a rugby-playing and fund-raising hero, Stevenson's unfinished novel, and the Master of the King's Music, obstruct your progress?
Q8 (from Robbie Lumsden) If one person can connect a cowardly lion and a defacer of library books, and another a peer interested in prison reform and an inmate at Fotheringay Castle, who would you need to connect a Bloomsbury painter and her novelist sister?

Which is the odd one out from: a racing driver's card game, Mrs Routledge's flowers, a noisy sporting implement, some geometric flooring and an assumed name?
Don't write to us because sadly there are no prizes: but you can see if your answer matches ours when Kirsty reveals the solution next time.