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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: Programme 3, 2020

Programme 3, 2020

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, Programme 3, 2020

Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish cryptic quiz

Northern Ireland plays the South of England in the notoriously challenging cryptic quiz, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair

If you're a regulator with no real powers, a bureaucrat who's anonymous and unaccountable, or someone who's drunk - in what sense might you sympathise with Samson in Gaza?

This and other baffling puzzles await the panel in Round Britain Quiz, in which the Northern Ireland pairing of Paddy Duffy and Freya McClements meet the South of England's Paul Sinha and Marcus Berkmann for the first time this season. Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair, and will be deciding how many points to award to the teams, depending on how much help they've needed in unravelling the solutions.

There's the usual scattering of question ideas suggested by listeners to the programme, and Tom also has the answer to the teaser question he asked at the end of the previous edition.

Producer: Paul Bajoria

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