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Tom Sutcliffe chairs the latest heat of the cryptic general knowledge quiz. Northern Ireland take on the Midlands.

Question 1
Northern Ireland

If Côte d’Ivoire comes fourteenth and China twentieth, where are Cyprus, Argentina and Ghana?

Question 2
Midlands

What have a bunch of wimps been doing down a mine in North Yorkshire, and why might it matter?

Question 3
Northern Ireland

How much do you have, in old money?

Question 4
Midlands

What connects this music with an exuberant patriotic celebration, and a venerated football stand?

Question 5 – listener question from Lawrence Mayes in Herefordshire
Northern Ireland

How does adding a narrow walkway to: half of a pair of drums; a French pachyderm; and a man associated with law enforcement in the USA, produce: a prestidigitator; a pantomime hero; and a comic creation from Staines?

Question 6 – listener question from Charles Gilman in Egham
Midlands

Why might a subtle shade of Greene, Caine cast as a pilgrim, and a ceramic artist, all feel tormented?

Question 7
Northern Ireland

What connects a pair of atmospheric radiation bands, a towering art-deco masterpiece, and a court procedure offering rapid resolution when it’s six of one and half-a-dozen of the other?

Question 8
Midlands

If you can find the key to the link between Noddy and his companions, the St Custards skool dog, an exclusive address on Piccadilly, and Artemisia absinthium, you’ll realise there’s an odd one out. Which?

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