22/10/2012
Tom Sutcliffe presides as Alan Taylor and Michael Alexander of Scotland take on Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland.
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Why might you find Julia Roberts and King Lear's daughters on a pedestrian crossing in Louisiana?
This is just the first of the mind-bending puzzles the teams in today's contest have to tackle. Alan Taylor and Michael Alexander of Scotland take on Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland, in a return fixture following Northern Ireland's victory a few weeks ago.
Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair, to award points and to give the teams the gentlest of verbal nudges when they seem to be struggling. As usual the programme features two questions devised by Round Britain Quiz listeners. The programme was recorded in County Antrim: but does this give the Northern Ireland team any home advantage?
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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QUESTIONS IN THIS PROGRAMME
1. Why might you find Julia Roberts and King Lear’s daughters on a pedestrian crossing in Louisiana?
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2. Artistically, what single event connects Thomas Hardy, Beryl Bainbridge and Robin Gibb, and why?
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3. (Music): How could combining Aptenodytes forsteri, Miss Amelia’s sad place of work and the location of a Greek chorus produce this?
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4. (Music): Why could this song, the First Lady of Fleet Street, a painter of circuses, and one who wrote songs for a colored singer, all find themselves on the same Chicago record label?
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5. (From Richard Condon) Why would an eccentric Flywheel, a pampas dweller and what he wears, and a top dog, come to a similar end?
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6. (From Jane Ann Liston) How could a strong wind, some rind and a ruler, when each paired with a horse, be said to be more recent successors to the mythological harriers of an ancient prince?
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7. What size would a vehicle have to be to captain England, a heavenly body have to be to interview a serial killer, and a commotion have to be to create modern architecture?
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8. Can you put these in their proper order – and explain?Ìý Mrs Michael Corleone, the Great Gatsby, Pierre Lazareff’s trend-defining creation, and half of Daubentonia madagascariensis?
LAST WEEK'S TEASER QUESTION
Why might you find a sanctimonious hypocrite, a lover of reading and the subject of a song by Danny Kaye taking a short-cut into another dimension?
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Answer: The linking concept is ‘worms’. A lover of reading is a bookworm; Danny Kaye sang about the ‘Inch-worm’ in the film ‘Hans Christian Andersen’; and an archaic term for a hypocrite is a ‘maw-worm’, which was also the name of a character in Isaac Bickerstaffe’s 18th century play ‘The Hypocrite’. Collectively they might create, or pass through, ‘worm-holes’ – which are pathways between dimensions in theoretical physics.
THIS WEEK'S TEASER QUESTION
Which restless quintet would you associate with a second crop after the harvest, what you’d have if you’d been making a collage, and an unappetising-sounding broth?Ìý
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No need to contact us – it’s just for fun – the answer will appear next week!
Broadcasts
- Mon 22 Oct 2012 15:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Sat 27 Oct 2012 23:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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