Programme 7, 2015
Wales play Scotland in the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections, with Tom Sutcliffe asking the questions.
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Tom Sutcliffe chairs a contest between the Welsh and the Scots, in the first of this season's 'revenge' fixtures. Last time these teams met, Wales beat Scotland by a single point. Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards are the Welsh team, while Scotland is represented by Val McDermid and Roddy Lumsden.
The challenge is thrown down from the off, as the teams are asked: 'Why could Philip Pirrip, a short high-pitched cry, and the Saint who decided how we should calculate Easter, all have been seen by our grandparents in the mirror?' Tom will be providing clues whenever the teams are getting too bogged down or pursuing false trails, but they'll have points deducted for every kindly nudge they need in the right direction.
As always, several of today's questions have been selected from the many ideas submitted by listeners over the past year or so.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Last week's teaser question
Tom asked: If you subtract an Agatha Christie sleuth and a musical based on H.G. Wells from a Lancashire folk group, how much are you left with?
The sleuth is Tuppence, of Agatha Christie's husband-and-wife detective partnership Tommy & Tuppence Beresford whose adventures were recently dramatised by 大象传媒 TV.
The musical Half A Sixpence, a vehicle for Tommy Steele and first performed in 1963, was based on the H.G. Wells novel Kipps.
These add up to fivepence. The Lancashire group, winners of New Faces, and subsequently prominent on the folk circuit and on TV variety shows in the 1970s, was Fivepenny Piece.
So the answer is that you're left with nothing.
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Questions in this programme
Q1 (from Kieran Sidley)听 Why could Philip Pirrip, a short high-pitched cry, and the saint who told us how we should calculate Easter, all have been seen by our grandparents in the mirror?
Q2 听Why would a wild dog, a game of numbers, a hillock in permafrost, a foreign language and a drummer form a sequence - and in which order should they come?
Q3听 (Music)听 Listen to these three songs: who is singing, who are they singing to, and which is - very subtly - the odd one out?
Q4听 Why could multiplying Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and J.R.R. Tolkien result in Jane Smiley?
Q5听 If you started your journey with a diesel engine on the island of Sodor, you might encounter along the way a politician with a wild hairstyle, an upper cut, and a no-good inhabitant of Llareggub - and end up with an idiot. How so?
Q6听 (Music)听 What might link these extracts with someone who never lived, but whose death was nevertheless reported by the New York Times?
Q7听 Why might you invoke Jefferson's disgraced Vice-President if you asked: 'Did you get the messages? Are you greeting? Do you want a piece?'
Q8听 (from Stephen Gore)听 In which apparently unproductive source might you look for novels by Evelyn Waugh and Iain M. Banks, and an orchestral work by George Benjamin?
Rankings before today's programme
The Round Britain Quiz league table at the half way stage in the series:
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=Wales听 Played 2听 Won 2听 Drawn 0听 Lost 0听 Total points scored 38
=South of England听 P2听 W2听 D0听 L0听 Pts 38
Midlands听 P2听 W1听 D0听 L1听 Pts 41
Scotland听 P2听 W1听 D0听 L1听 Pts 29
North of England听 P2听 W0听 D0听 L2听 Pts 31
Northern Ireland听 P2听 W0听 D0听 L2听 Pts 23
This week's teaser question
In which country of the world are Albert, George, Edward and Victoria all physical features - and what are they?
No need to contact us with the answer: it's just for fun, and Tom will explain all at the beginning of next week's edition.
Broadcasts
- Mon 30 Nov 2015 15:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sat 5 Dec 2015 23:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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