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.
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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.
1Â SOUTH OF ENGLANDÂ Played 2Â Won 1Â Drawn 1Â Lost 0Â Total points 41
2Â THE MIDLANDSÂ P2Â W1Â D0Â L1Â Pts 38
3Â WALESÂ P1Â W1Â D0Â L0Â Pts 23
4Â SCOTLANDÂ P1Â W0Â D1Â L0Â Pts 19
5= NORTH OF ENGLANDÂ P1Â W0Â D0Â L1Â Pts 16
5=Â NORTHERN IRELANDÂ P1Â W0Â D0Â L1Â Pts 16
Questions in today's programme
Q1Â 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?
Q2Â 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?
Q3Â Music - Why might these people rule over Commissario Brunetti's creator, Sergei Sedov's father, and Jean Reno?
Q4Â 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?
Q5Â 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)Â 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?
Q7Â 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)Â 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±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sat 16 Dec 2017 23:00±«Óãtv Radio 4
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