蜜芽传媒

(9/12)

Teams from all over the UK will face Kirsty Lang's cryptic questions across the series, with Kirsty offering support and the odd hint where it might be needed.

This ninth contest features the second meeting of The North of England and The Midlands.

You can follow the questions in each edition on the Round Britain Quiz webpages. Each week's questions will be posted on the day of transmission.

Teams:
Frankie Fanko and Stephen Maddock
Jenny Ryan and Stuart Maconie

Questions in today's edition:

Q1 (From Simon Meara) Can you unravel the connection between鈥�
A multiple-Grand-Slam-winning tennis player, the English footballer with the most caps, a distant state in northeastern Ethiopia, and a Welsh traffic instruction?

Q2 If we start with David Byrne asking 鈥淲ell, how did I get here?鈥�, then find ourselves carving ice sculptures with Celine Dion, what might Lionel Richie and The Commodores have to say to us?

Q3 Music: While you listen to these three pieces, ponder what they all might contribute to the Kyoto Protocol.

Q4 I鈥檓 going to give you some directions, and you have to tell me the four buildings you鈥檒l pass, where you are, and what鈥檚 playing on the radio?
Turn off the highway, and you鈥檒l spot a place of worship.
Keep going past a place of liquor,
Drive on until you pass a place of learning,
And finally, you鈥檒l find a place to spend a penny.

Q5 Why might a small mountain lake, an island in the Inner Hebrides and the iconic Miss Sarkisian all be contained within a hexagon?

Q6 Music: What culinary connection can we take away from these pieces?

Q7 (from John Kennedy) What mischief might be made by鈥�
Kenny鈥檚 glamorous companion, a phallic highwayman, a sneaky observer, a Romantic painter who is no stranger to a roll in the Hay, and an ex-political correspondent who loves to make waves on his narrowboat, if they were all on a wild ride through a mountain pass in Pakistan?

Q8 What links鈥�
Robert Falcon Scott, Boaty McBoatface, Anthony Ammirati, Max Verstappen, and Lech Walesa. And who is the odd one out?

Clues to the tracks featured in the music rounds (Skip these if you want to play along when the programme airs)

Q3
Clip 1: A German composer whose 1960s instrumental invites you on a stroll through a famously shadowy landscape.
Clip 2: A brooding track from a band at the height of their gothic phase, lost somewhere in the wilderness.
Clip 3: A 19th-century Hungarian composer, whose piano piece imitates the gentle whisper of nature.

Q6
Clip 1: Half of an iconic folk-rock duo, this American artist released a solo, reggae-infused track of loss and quiet hope.
Clip 2: A post-punk pioneer, with a debut hit named after somewhere closer to home than it sounds.
Clip 3: A 50s heartthrob, with a smooth ballad imagining the perfect romantic partner.

Host: Kirsty Lang
Recorded by: Phil Booth
Sound Design: Chris Maclean
Production Coordinator: Caroline Barlow
Producer: Carl Cooper

Questions set by:
Lucy Porter, Alan Poulton, Paul Bajoria and public contributors.