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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 eleventh contest features the second meeting of The North of England and Northern Ireland.

Teams:
Jenny Ryan & Stewart Maconie
Paddy Duffy & Freya McClements

Questions in today's edition:

Q1 (from Duncan Jones)
On which day of the week in Yorkshire might you encounter:
A Danish queen in Cheshire
A Scottish duke in Devon
An 19th century American explorer in Lancashire
And Some professors in Bedfordshire

Q2
Why would a Boston poet with a love of nature, a Hollywood actress with a peek-a-boo hairstyle, and a bespectacled Cold War spy all be wandering through an art gallery together?

Q3 Music: Which author might these four have cause to fear?

Q4 (from Thisbe Archer)
Where would you find together….
A British surgeon and pioneer of aseptic surgery
An admirable film of 1957
Yusuf Islam
Perhaps the greatest goalkeeper in Aston Villa’s history
And a rock and roll pioneer from Lubbock, Texas?

Q5 (from Mark White)
How are…
The name of ‘The Millers’ stadium in Rotherham.
A Klondike chronicler
A hotel heiress (with a Kapital moniker)
And Harry Kane’z new home
…all connected, in this order, by a single letter in 1979?

Q6 Music: what is the crowning achievement of these pieces of music?

Q7 (from Ivan Whetton)
Following a short, repeated sequence of notes - why would the introduction of:
The Scot associated with Baker Street
The man who gave his name to the stinking corpse lily, or the painter of the Sistine Madonna,
lower the tone for Brad and Janet?

Q8
Why might these actors have been in a flap over missing out on a classic film?
Polanski’s Macbeth, the on-screen husband of Mrs. Bucket, the Mission: Impossible master of disguise who starred alongside his wife in Space: 1999, and the Ice Cold in Alex star who played Thomas Wolsey?

TEASER QUESTION:

What links:
Capability Brown
Henry VIII’s older brother
The Rolls Royce engine from the Spitfire
Asteroid 2054

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, and public contributors.

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