
Programme 6, 2022
Kirsty Lang hosts the notoriously tricky cryptic quiz, with Scotland taking on Northern Ireland for the first time this series.
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Kirsty Lang welcomes the pairs from Scotland and Northern Ireland to the Round Britain Quiz library this week. Val McDermid and Alan McCredie take on Paddy Duffy and Freya McClements, both teams still looking for their first win of the 2022 season.
It will help them if their memory banks contain details of soap operas, Victorian literature, 80s pop songs and landmarks in Prague - but they still face the task of making the necessary connections to arrive at the full answers. Kirsty provides prompts along the way, but deducts points according to how much help she has to give.
The programme includes questions based on ideas sent in my RBQ listeners in recent months.
Producer: Paul Bajoria
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Rankings in this year's series
1 South of England Played 2 Won 2 Drawn 0 Lost 0 Total points 43
2 Midlands  P2 W1 D1 L0 Pts 42
3 Wales  P2 W1 D0 L1 Pts 39
4 North of England  P2 W0 D1 L1 Pts 37
5 Scotland  P1 W0 D0 L1 Pts 19
6 Northern Ireland  P1 W0 D0 L1 Pts 18
Last week's teaser question
The four clues give us, respectively, a Troy weight; the actor Andrew Scott; Mr Jones from Dad's Army; and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, from which the salient section is Winter.Â
If you're a fan of the TV drama Midsomer Murders you may have worked out that Troy, Scott, Jones and Winter are the names of Detective Sergeants, past and present, in that long-running show. They have worked with successive DCIs Tom Barnaby and John Barnaby - so the 'riotous Dickensian hero' is Barnaby Rudge, in the novel of that name set amid the Gordon Riots of the 1780s.
Phew. You deserve your six points if you worked all of that out.Â
Questions in today's programme
Q2Â Why could one be unsettled by the producers of Bond, the creator of Another Green World, and an Argentinian for whom love preceded a climax?Â
Q3Â Music: In what way does the last one describe all of the other three?
Q4 (from Ridley Burnett)Â What kind of search might involve a crooner attempting to find big game, but instead encountering a boorish humanoid, an overheated vulpine and a couple of departing waterfowl, and finally stumbling upon an unpleasant canine memento?Â
Q5Â Which might be worth the most: a man whose animals made it out of Kabul, a passionate and resilient stalwart of the Street, Louise Brooks' hair or Morgan's royal saga?
Q6 (from Ivan Whetton)Â Music: Why might these prove an impediment to foreign travel?
Q7Â Why would you expect to make progress with the aid of Helios's wayward son, the county where you'd find Guildford and Camberley, a French chair and an assiduous attention to duty?
Q8 (from Terry O'Brien)Â How might an affectionate act of marine rescue, an Irish pirate, an American pioneer of computing, and the servant hired to keep a woman in the attic, possibly help Hemingway with a definition of courage?
This week's teaser question
You can see if your solution matches ours at the beginning of the next edition of Round Britain Quiz.
Broadcasts
- Mon 2 May 2022 15:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Sat 7 May 2022 23:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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