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Programme 8, 2021

Wales and Northern Ireland tackle the conundrums in the notoriously tough lateral thinking contest, with Tom Sutcliffe.

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Tom Sutcliffe asks the questions, as Wales try to avenge their defeat at the hands of Northern Ireland earlier this season. Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards play for Wales, against Freya McClements and Paddy Duffy of Northern Ireland.

There's a generous helping of questions suggested by listeners this week, and as usual the programme ends with a teaser you can puzzle over between now and the next episode.

Producer: Paul Bajoria

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 1 May 2021 23:00

Rankings

Going into today's contest, the 2021 RBQ league table stands as follows:
1  North of England  Played 3  Won 2  Drawn 1  Lost 0  Total points 63
2  Midlands  P2  W2  D0  L0  Pts 41
3  Scotland  P2  W1  D0  L1  Pts 35
4  Northern Ireland   P2  W1  D0  L1  Pts 34
5  South of England  P3  W0  D1  L2  Pts 58
6  Wales  P2  W0  D0  L2  Pts 31  

Last week's teaser question

Tom asked: in what way might a Blue Peter pet, a bodyguard called Bullion, and Kate Hudson's Mum, all have had their chance to shine?
The answer is that they are, or were, all called Goldie. Goldie was the name of the golden retriever on Blue Peter in the 1980s, looked after by presenter Simon Groom; the actor and musician Goldie played a character called Bullion, or 'Bull', in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond adventure The World Is Not Enough; and Goldie Hawn is the mother of the actor Kate Hudson.

Questions in today's programme

Q1 (from Duncan Jones)  How in 2020 might we all have had additional empathy with Edmond Dantes, Ivan Shukhov, Sydney Carton's doppelganger, and a property-owning member of the Bufo family?
Q2 (from Terry O'Brien)  How might the following make you think of a dodgy domestic defence: Helen's Pepysian protagonist, Ted's fishy ode, Flashman's creator, Russell's linguistically unconventional narrator, and the creator of a young dweller in the dumping ground?
Q3  Music: What names would Jack give these performers, and which order should they come in?
Q4 (from Simon Meara)  What, appropriately, connects the home of the Yellowbellies and an illegal hunter from a folk song, the left in Germany, the North American bobcat and the London Internet Exchange?
Q5 (from Peter Slater)  The following could have done it: the 33rd President of the USA, the late Ms Kappelhoff, Chairman Mao's followers and the Nabob of Sob. Keith Flint claimed he did do it. Christie Brinkley's second husband has always claimed he didn't do it, and, furthermore, that he's not guilty. Who are these people, and what is it they may have done?
Q6 (from Paul Maki)  Music: Which synth-pop band might provide a place for all of these?
Q7 (from The Revd Oliver Harrison)  Why might a Peckham road sweeper's chief tool, tin in the land of Oz, and the vessel of an ancient Greek hero, not be quite what they seem? 
Q8 (from Cameron Hall)  If you were weighing up your progress from an author of Arthurian tales to a singer who wanted to be taken to the river, then to an album celebrating  its 50th birthday this year, and finally to the nickname of a London mayor, what would you have missed out?

This week's teaser question

Paul Hollywood, Fergus Henderson, Mike Oldfield, Horace Rumpole, Mark Carney, Philip Treacy and Castor fiber: what might they all be looking for, and what might it turn out to be instead?
There are no prizes: but you can see if you've been thinking along the right lines when we reveal the solution next time.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 26 Apr 2021 15:00
  • Sat 1 May 2021 23:00

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