16/09/2013
Tom Sutcliffe returns with a new series of the panel game of cryptic connections, between regions of the UK. The first contest pits The Midlands against Scotland.
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'In what way could a major Scottish river, a senior barrister, an area of well-trimmed grass, and Birkin's lover, be of material interest to a Nottingham smith?'
Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for the first contest in the 2013 season of the much-loved cryptic quiz between UK regions. The first match pits The Midlands against Scotland, attempting to answer the programme's trademark questions which require lateral thinking across a wide field of knowledge, from literature, history, music and the natural world to current affairs and popular culture.
The series includes more selections than ever from listeners' own question ideas, which can be submitted by e-mail or via the programme's webpages.
Wales have dominated the contest in recent years, so the other teams will be going all-out to loosen the Welsh grip on the Round Britain Quiz title. The champion team will be the one that wins the greatest number of matches across the series.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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QUESTIONS IN THIS PROGRAMME
1. (From Alan Frankland) In what way could a major Scottish river, a senior barrister, an area of well-trimmed grass and Birkin鈥檚 lover be of material interest to a Nottingham Smith?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
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2. (From David Barnes) Eleanor Thornton鈥檚 perch, some second rate entertainment and one well-versed in anthologising could lead you to unparalleled mental exercise.听 How?
3. Music question: How might these three be linked to the events of 1665?
4. Music question: Why should these songs lead you to the Oak King鈥檚 antithesis, and an Edgbaston honouree who finally took Bradman for a duck?
5. (From Dave Taylor) What egotistical addition can transform:
A citizen of 鈥渘o mean city鈥� into a quantum physicist;
A Berkshire dessert into an international soccer superstar;
Split peas into the designer of the dream sequence in Hitchcock鈥檚 Spellbound?
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6. (From Jen Parry) Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Mikhail Bulgakov, TE Lawrence and Francis Wheen were all familiar with literary disaster.听听Can you elucidate 鈥� and explain why Dickens came off better than the rest?
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7. (From Stephen Gore) The first closed a gap in 1883; the second was adopted, along with 25 others, in 1965; the third shares a name with an actress who gave birth on the same day as a Duchess; and the fourth (and, we are told, the last) might remind you of literary ornithocide. 听Who are they?
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8. Which novels by David Lodge, Julian Barnes, Anthony Burgess and Iris Murdoch might seem to be the result of diplopia?
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THIS WEEK'S TEASER QUESTION
Why might it be appropriate for an unscrupulous saloon-bar owner 'out west' to slip a knockout beverage to half a Tyrannosaurus rex?
There are no prizes: but the solution will appear in next week's edition.
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Broadcasts
- Mon 16 Sep 2013 15:00麻豆社 Radio 4 FM
- Sat 21 Sep 2013 23:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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