28/07/2014
Scotland take on the South of England for the last time this year in the game of cryptic connections, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair.
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Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair and the teams from Scotland and the South of England are in the spotlight, as the contest of cryptic connections reaches the penultimate match of the series.
Roddy Lumsden and Val McDermid play for Scotland, while Marcel Berlins and Fred Housego represent the South of England. Last time these teams encountered one another the Scots won convincingly, so the pressure is on the Southerners to turn the tables if they're to achieve a respectable finish on the RBQ league table for 2014.
As usual a knowledge of literature, history, music, geography, the natural world and popular culture will all be helpful to the teams in unravelling the programme's trademark convoluted puzzles. Some of the best are drawn from the mailbag of suggestions received from RBQ listeners in recent months.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Questions in this programme
Q1听 Scotland
Which is the odd one out among the works of Korszak Ziolkowski in South Dakota, of D. Erdenebileg on the Tuul River in Mongolia, and of Andy Scott at Falkirk?
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Q2听 South of England
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(From Stephen Pollock-Hill) What connects Reacher鈥檚 creator, an architect who designed a capital city a long way from home, and the warm ocean conditions in the Eastern Pacific?
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Q3听 Scotland
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Music Question
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Please put them in order of size.
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Q4听 South of England
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Music Question (from Peter Vigurs)
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Which of the other teams might most easily see the connection?
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Q5听 Scotland
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Why might a cartoon tower block be a suitable home for at least one President of Ireland, the Scots explorer of the Niger, and the lead singer of Ultravox?
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Q6听 South of England
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(From Ronald Monroe) You might expect the largest to have a specific gravity of 1; another may have been produced by aphids; still another sounds as though it might almost have written songs in the South of France. What are they?
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Q7听 Scotland
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What鈥檚 so tragic about the creator of the Jumblies, the first book in Faulkner鈥檚 Snopes trilogy, the bobby of Lochdubh and the game of Reversi?
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Q8听 South of England
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Why might James Gandolfini, an Army Game actor, the relationship between participants in a discourse and half a Californian city, all be welcome in a choir?
Last week's teaser question and answer
What would make the Sire of a political dynasty, the First Lady of Song, and the arch-chronicler of the Jazz Age, converge on a Killarney sports stadium?
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They might all be looking for their ancestry at the Fitzgerald football stadium in Killarney, because they are all famous Americans with that surname.
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The Sire of the political dynasty is John Francis (鈥楬oney Fitz鈥�) Fitzgerald, father of Rose Kennedy and grandfather of JFK. The First Lady of Song was famously the nickname of Ella Fitzgerald; and the arch-chronicler of the Jazz Age is the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby and other definitive portraits of America between the wars.
This week's teaser question
Eliot, Welles and Gordon Murray all had one; who, foolishly, went after many more?
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Don't write to us: there are no prizes, but you can see if you're right when we reveal the answer next time.
Broadcasts
- Mon 28 Jul 2014 15:00大象传媒 Radio 4 FM
- Sat 2 Aug 2014 23:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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