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Programme 8, 2024

Kirsty Lang chairs another contest of wordplay and cryptic connections, with Scotland taking on Northern Ireland for the second time this series.

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Kirsty Lang welcomes back the pairs from Scotland and Northern Ireland in another revenge fixture, after Northern Ireland's victory the last time these teams met. Val McDermid and Alan McCredie are the Scotland team, and Paddy Duffy and Freya McClements represent Northern Ireland.

Questions in today's edition:

Q1 What could Hobson's employer, Robert E. Howard's Barbarian and Pauline McLynn be said to have jointly contributed to the history of detection?

Q2 (from Michael Beech) What links an aborted Carnegie Hall performance by a sensitive soloist, a quiz player changing his mind, and a traditional art form in Coimbra in Portugal?

Q3 Music: Which Tears for Fears song could you expect to hear next in this sequence?

Q4 (from Graham Bingham) If the following make a sequence: the father of the Living Dead, a cinematic pioneer, a monolithic sci-fi author, a Big Deal in a White House, and the Swazi companion of 'I' - which Arthurian brothers could come next?

Q5 If a Central African rebel movement bypasses Crawley and this piece of paper would take you to London from here, why might you sing about the number 8.124?

Q6 (from Robert Crawley) Music: Why might the band behind the fourth piece perform any, or all, of the other three?

Q7 If Denzel of the Netherlands teamed up with Gorgeous George, and Rachel's sometime boyfriend joined forces with the writer of 'Plastic Jesus', where would you find them all?

Q8 (from Peter Green) Explain how the following come between five and twenty: an untouched domain, a Fast and Furious action man, and an actor who portrayed a detective who sucked.

Producer Paul Bajoria

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Sat 4 May 2024 23:30

The 2024 League Table

The rankings of the teams so far in this Round Britain Quiz 2024 series are:

1  Wales      Played 3  Won 2  Drawn 0  Lost 1  Total points 52
2  The Midlands      P2  W2  D0  L0  Pts 44
3  Northern Ireland     P2  W2  D0  L0  Pts 41
4  Scotland    P2  W1  D0  L1  Pts 38
5  South of England    P3  W0  D0  L3  Pts 50
6  North of England    P2  W0  D0  L2  Pts 37

Last week's teaser question

At the end of the previous edition Kirsty asked:  If a military library contained the books The Golden Bough, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, In Parenthesis and You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down, who might be in charge of it?
You probably noticed that none of these works is especially appropriate for a military library, except for In Parenthesis - so the key lies in the names of the authors. They are, respectively, J.G. Fraser, Angus Wilson, David Jones and Alice Walker.
They thus share their surnames with characters in the sitcom Dad's Army - and the person who'd be in charge of them is therefore Captain Mainwaring.

Well done if you spotted that connection. Kirsty will provide another teaser question at the end of today's quiz.

This week's teaser question

Can you see the value in connecting Elsie from a Salford soap, a rapid head movement, a baby marsupial and a French flower?

Don't write in with your answer, just keep it in mind and see if you're right when Kirsty gives her solution next time.

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  • Sun 28 Apr 2024 16:30
  • Sat 4 May 2024 23:30

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