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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 2, 2024

Programme 2, 2024

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, Programme 2, 2024

The contest of lateral thinking and cryptic connections, chaired by Kirsty Lang.

Kirsty Lang puts cryptic questions to the teams from Northern Ireland and Scotland in the second contest of the series.

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Kirsty Lang is in the chair, armed with more of Round Britain Quiz's trademark cryptic questions. Northern Ireland, the defending RBQ champions, will be hoping they can repeat last year's triumph, as they begin this year's campaign with a match against the Scots. 

Freya McClements and Paddy Duffy play for Northern Ireland, against Val McDermid and Alan McCredie for Scotland.

Questions in today's programme:

Q1 (from Barbara Jennings)  Which gas has the following effects? Applied to a tree, it makes a mess. Applied to a limb, it causes damage. Applied to a bird, it produces a cry of pain or a famously controversial American poem. And applied to everything, it makes room.

Q2  Why might a short story by Gogol give Bradley Cooper, Nicole Kidman and Gerard Depardieu a wry smile?

Q3  Music: Can you name the four people in the spotlight here, and why are they still burning?

Q4 (from Derek Evans)  Who are these: a radio acknowledgement, what Americans find in the bathroom, ericaceous compost, and an actress who was to the manor born.

Q5 (from Simon Meara)  A girl with an auric device, a girl fleeing an alien invasion and a woman who didn't see things in black and white all share their name with the 39th and the 40th - although we don't know which is which. Can you explain?

Q6 (from Rob Webb)  Music: How might the first three be heard in the fourth (with a minor spelling correction)?

Q7  In which Moroccan city might you have found, at a particular time, the inhabitant of a plastic box, a saintly King of Hungary, an Italian car and a French car?

Q8  Why do a player piano, a grumpy person, a protective plate for a keyhole and a Karmic reptile all take a very long time indeed, in the end?


Producer: Paul Bajoria

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