Programme 4, 2015
Northern Ireland take on Scotland in the contest of lateral thinking and cryptic connections, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair to ensure fair play.
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Northern Ireland take on Scotland in the contest of cryptic connections, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair to ensure fair play. Val McDermid and Roddy Lumsden of Scotland are defending their Round Britain Quiz champions' title. The challengers from Northern Ireland are long-standing regulars Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney.
The programme's trademark questions will require both sides to delve into the most arcane depths of their knowledge, spanning words coined by famous authors, culinary recipes, British rock albums and curious historical mishaps. If that's whetted your appetite, jojn Tom and the teams for the fourth contest of the 2015 series, when Tom will also be revealing the answer to the teaser question left hanging at the end of the last programme.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Last week's teaser question
Tom asked: What's similar about Lady Chatterley, a man without whom German electronic music wouldn't have been the same, and Mrs Charlie Brooker?
Lady Chatterley's first name, in the D.H. Lawrence novel of 1928, is Constance or Connie.
Konrad or 'Conny' Plank (1940-87) was the German audio engineer and producer in whose Dusseldorf studio Kraftwerk and other electronic bands made their most influential records in the 1970s. He started his career as a stage sound engineer for Marlene Dietrich.
Mrs Charlie Brooker is the TV presenter Konnie Huq (b. 1975).
So they are all Connies,聽but only 'similar' because the spelling is slightly different in each case.
Questions in today's programme
Q1聽 Take us from the Eastern portion of a European capital unified in 1873, to a Genoese sauce, and then to an idiosyncratic explainer of economics.
Q2聽 'The nerd induced a galumphing boredom in me'. To which three men does this sentence owe its currency?
Q3 (from Andrew Ennis): The Olympic wrestler Arrichion in 532BC; the drifter Glyndwr Michael in 1943; the Canadian doctor Ralph Steinman in 2011. Why, each in their own way, were they a little late for the party?
Q4 (Music)聽 Can you suggest a connection which might remain nameless?
Q5 (from Harris Mercer): Why could German thunder, a scrum from Montevideo, and a Starling's companion, make you dinner?
Q6聽(from Caroline Fisher-Carver):聽 Which English county links the following: an affectionate ghost, rebellious farmers,聽a place for rum, a Gallic inlet and a smart London address?
Q7 (Music/voices): What sort of pieces might each of these tastefully accompany?
Q8 (from Paul Weston): Which melody might make you think of a rendezvous with an extra-terrestrial visitor; the rise and fall of a musical alien; and a romantic film set in a fantasy kingdom?
Rankings before today's contest
This is how the teams stand after the first three contests of the series.
The Midlands聽 Played 1 Won 1 Drawn 0 Lost 0聽 Total points 20
South of England聽 P1 W1 D0 L0聽 Total points 17
Wales聽 P1 W1 D0 L0聽 Total points 16
Scotland聽 P1 W0 D0 L1聽 Total points 15
North of England聽 P1 W0 D0 L1聽 Total points 12
Northern Ireland聽 P1 W0 D0 L1聽 Total points 10
Today's teaser question
If Abba recorded a minus two, Fleetwood Mac a minus three and Simon & Garfunkel a minus four, what might we be talking about?
No need to email or write to us with the answer: it's just for fun. Tom will reveal the answer and you can find out if you're right at the beginning of next week's quiz.
Broadcasts
- Mon 9 Nov 2015 15:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sat 14 Nov 2015 23:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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