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Radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions on unpredictable fields of knowledge

Radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions drawing on unpredictable fields of knowledge

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Round Britain Quiz: 07/07/2014

07/07/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, 07/07/2014

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the contest of lateral thinking and cryptic connections.

The contest of cryptic connections this week features the North of England versus the Midlands, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair.

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Where could you find a bowl for washing, a European Royal dynasty and the people they ruled over, a navigable waterway and something to read, all together in a crescent? 

Tom Sutcliffe promised to provide the answer to that question in this latest edition of the ever-popular lateral thinking quiz. This week Adele Geras and Diana Collecott of the North of England are hoping to take revenge on Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles of the Midlands, who beat them on their previous encounter earlier in the series. 

As always, they'll need to muster arcane snippets of knowledge they never knew they possessed, from Classical literature and popular culture, from history and music and science. The programme also features some of the best recent question ideas sent in by listeners. 

Producer: Paul Bajoria.

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