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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

Round Britain Quiz: Programme 12, 2024

Programme 12, 2024

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, Programme 12, 2024

The contest of wordplay and cryptic connections chaired by Kirsty Lang

Kirsty Lang chairs the last contest of the current series, in which the North of England and Scotland face the trademark cryptic questions.

(12/12)

Kirsty Lang welcomes back the North of England and the Scots for the closing match of the 2024 series. With the results very tight this year, Scotland could take the overall series title if they win today. Stuart Maconie and Adele Geras face Val McDermid and Alan McCredie.

Today's questions:

Q1  Which Borough Treasurer's list might include the main thoroughfare of any town, the companion of Mr Smith and Mr Jones, something you might attach to the collars of felines, and (very nearly) where orphan Anne Shirley grows up?

Q2  What would French women conclude about mitochondria and other structures in a cell, the strait connecting the Aegean with the Sea of Marmara, and Britain's most common bats?

Q3 (from James Francis)  Music: Why might all of these please a cat?

Q4  The common origin of romantically-inclined geriatrics, an expression of pity for people or creatures, an object made from cowhide and an ancient town on the Clyde, is anything but colourful. Can you explain why? 

Q5  If I gave you an old-fashioned tanner, the town where Henry James died, a lot of Lockheed SR-71s and Piscine Molitor Patel, could you give me the rest of the song?

Q6  Music: Why might these three do their bit for the environment?

Q7 (from Simon Dooker)  How could the following be said to contribute to an English Victorian poet's most famous work: an American baseball legend, the home ground of Solihull Moors, the colour of Carly's conceited lover's scarf, Rumer's coming-of-age classic, and what a fabled runaway duo dined on?

Q8 (from Frank Paul)  How often would you expect accurate information from items belonging to the following: a deceased relative who lived to be 90, the bride whom Compeyson jilted, and those obeying the first words of 'Funeral Blues'?


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