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Programme 5, 2017-18

Scotland take on the North of England in the regional cryptic challenge, with Tom Sutcliffe asking the questions.

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Why does finding the connection between DeMille's epic, an Agatha Christie whodunit, a re-telling of The Taming of the Shrew. and the framing of Timothy Evans, lie in your own hands?

It can only be Round Britain Quiz asking this type of question - and Tom Sutcliffe will be putting it to the regular teams from Scotland and the North of England in this week's contest, recorded in the Scottish Borders. Val McDermid and Alan McCredie play for Scotland, opposite Stuart Maconie and Adele Geras of the North of England. Both teams are looking for their first outright win of this year's tournament.

The programme includes some more of the best listeners' question ideas sent to us in recent months, and Tom will be revealing the solution to the teaser question he left unanswered at the end of the previous programme.

Producer: Paul Bajoria.

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 16 Dec 2017 23:00

Last week's teaser

Tom's question was: If The Wooden Horse, Whisky Galore and The Code of the Woosters are the first three, why could you find the fourth at St James' Park?

The writers of those three titles are, respectively, Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and P.G. Wodehouse. Each of these writers shares a name with an 18th century British Prime Minister - Walpole, Compton and Pelham (P.G. Wodehouse's initials stand for Pelham Grenville).

These were in fact the first three British Prime Ministers in sequence. The fourth, succeeding Henry Pelham in 1754, was the Duke of Newcastle - which is why you might look for him at a landmark of that city, the football ground St James' Park.

Rankings so far in this series

All six teams have now played at least one match in the current series. The league table before today's fixture looks like this.

1  SOUTH OF ENGLAND  Played 2  Won 1  Drawn 1  Lost 0  Total points 41

2  THE MIDLANDS  P2  W1  D0  L1  Pts 38

3  WALES  P1  W1  D0  L0  Pts 23

4  SCOTLAND  P1  W0  D1  L0  Pts 19

5= NORTH OF ENGLAND  P1  W0  D0  L1  Pts 16

5= NORTHERN IRELAND  P1  W0  D0  L1  Pts 16

Questions in today's programme

Q1  Why might an energetic indoor game, followed by an argumentative session of campanology and a trip to see a movie set on Skull Island, rounded off with a sociable evening around the piano, be a harmonious way to spend a day?

Q2  If Frazier's was freezing, Mann's was enchanted and Proulx's had a spinal injury, what did Baldwin want you to do on his?

Q3  Music - Why might these people rule over Commissario Brunetti's creator, Sergei Sedov's father, and Jean Reno?

Q4  Why does finding the connection between DeMille's epic, an Agatha Christie whodunit, a re-telling of The Taming of the Shrew, and the framing of Timothy Evans, lie in your own hands?

Q5  Which well-known slapstick character, after impertinently addressing an American woman, might sustain ocular bruising and renal soreness, and then make a hasty get-away?

Q6 (from David Collard)  Music - What do these pieces have in common with the author of 'the finest French novel in the English language' and Aldous Huxley's story of artists and intellectuals?

Q7  Why should we feel very affectionate towards a Revolutionary Daughter, Peter's shadow seamstress, Forfarshire's saviour and a pen-pushing desk-sucking blotter-jotter?

Q8 (from Colin Daffern)  In the1970s and 80s, why might your Saturday afternoon entertainment have been provided by Wainwright's favourite fell, a city devastated by a Fat Man, the offspring of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, and a man you'd have hesitated to call Shirley?

This week's teaser

If a gathering includes twelve who are religious, thirteen who are guiltless, thirteen who are courageous, and eight who are city-dwellers, why would only one make an impression - and who are they all?

There are no prizes - but you can see if your solution matches Tom's when he explains at the beginning of the next edition.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 11 Dec 2017 15:00
  • Sat 16 Dec 2017 23:00

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