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

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Round Britain Quiz: Programme 3, 2015

02/11/2015

Programme 3, 2015

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, Programme 3, 2015

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

Northern Ireland take on the south of England in the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections, chaired by Tom Sutcliffe.

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If Darlington is worth 550, why would Manchester be worth twenty times as much as Liverpool - and why is Motherwell worth Manchester and Liverpool added together?

Tom Sutcliffe welcomes teams from the South of England and Northern Ireland this week, clashing for the first time in the current series. This year the South of England is represented by the author and Independent columnist Marcus Berkmann and the science writer Simon Singh. Playing for Northern Ireland are the writer Polly Devlin and the historian and commentator Brian Feeney.

They'll need to muster all of their arcane general knowledge and powers of lateral thinking, to tackle RBQ's trademark cryptic questions.
As always the programme includes question ideas suggested by listeners - and Tom will be revealing the answer to the teaser he set at the end of the previous edition.

Producer: Paul Bajoria.

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