Programme 11, 2016-17
Tom Sutcliffe oversees another cryptic contest, with Wales and Northern Ireland appearing in their final clash of the season.
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Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for the penultimate clash of the 2016-17 season, with David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander of Wales taking on Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland. If Wales take the victory today they will have won all four of their games in this series, and will be looking unstoppable in their bid to become RBQ champions. Northern Ireland will be going all out to prevent them - but it all depends how the questions fall.
The panel will need all their powers of recall and logic, as they struggle to connect apparently random elements from history, cinema, classic children's television, politics and natural history into some sort of pattern. The winners will be the pair who find the answers with the minimum need for clues and guidance from Tom.
Producer: Paul Bajoria.
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Last week's teaser question
We asked: In what sense do a beautiful cup-bearer, the mother of King Minos of Crete, a priestess transformed into a cow, and a nymph transformed into a bear, all now encircle their lover?
The answer is that these are mythological figures whose听names have been given to the four largest moons of Jupiter. Respectively they are Ganymede, Io, Europa and Callisto - and all were beloved of (or seduced by) Zeus or his Roman equivalent Jupiter/Jove. They therefore 'encircle' their lover by orbiting him.
There'll be another teaser at the end of today's programme.
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Questions in this programme
Q1 (from Huw Jones)听 What, in the UK, links a Southern belle, part of a fantasy game, a fish-hawk and a melancholy musical genre?
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Q2听 Which Roman Emperor connects Tamora's vengeful enemy, the son of Sepulchrave and the Popish plot?
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Q3听 Music - Explain the connection?
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Q4听 What cause should the author of Trouble At Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term At St Bride's have to dislike Danger Mouse's arch-enemy, one whose life was changed by a 'Poop-poop!' and Mr Jackson?
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Q5 (from Peter Effer)听 In what way do Margo Leadbetter, the final resting place of the Royal Yacht Britannia, the site of Newgrange, and Peter Hain's old constituency, sound like a progression?
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Q6听 Music - How could this music, a Danny Kaye ventriloquist comedy, a hill in County Mayo, and Jules Romains' rural doctor, lead you to the US Bullion Depository?
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Q7 (from Sam Bright)听 What do Yossarian's Major, the cricketing father of footballers Phil and Gary, and the man serving a life sentence for the murder of Bobby Kennedy, have in common with a buzzard, a fox and a badger?
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Q8听 Explain how retrospective fury, a song and dance man, the Diet of Worms and a lustful 18th century adventurer could lead you to a better class of person?
This week's teaser question
This week's puzzle has been suggested by James Smith.
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Where would you find the following in control: an error indicator in Microsoft Excel; a Sherlock Holmes story; diphenolchloroarsine; and a double word score?
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Don't write or e-mail with the answer, it's just for fun - Tom will reveal the solution next time.
Rankings in the series so far
Can anyone stop Wales from making it a clean sweep? This is how the league table stands going into today's contest.
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1听 Wales听 Played 3听 Won 3听 Lost 0听 Total points 63
2听 South of England听 P4听 W2听 L2听 Pts 77
3听 North of England听 P3听 W2听 L1听 Pts 56
4听 Northern Ireland听 P3听 W2听 L1听 Pts 51
5听 Scotland听 P4听 W1听 L3听 Pts 70
6听 Midlands听 P3听 W0听 L3听 Pts 45
Broadcasts
- Mon 9 Jan 2017 15:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sat 14 Jan 2017 23:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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