Programme 2, 2024
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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Last week's teaser question
The answer is because they are all Waltons. Michael Learned (sometimes billed as 'Miss Michael Learned') was the American actress who played the mother, Olivia Walton, in the fondly-remembered TV series The Waltons. Each programme ended with the family calling out goodnight to one another as the lights went out in the house.
The presenter of Radio 4's books quiz The Write Stuff was, for many years, the writer James Walton.
The composer Sir William Walton was born in Oldham in Lancashire in 1902.
The angler is Isaak Walton, whose 1653 book The Compleat Angler is regarded by many as the ultimate celebration of the pleasures of fishing, and a classic of writing about country life.
There'll be another teaser question at the end of this programme.
This week's teaser question
There are no prizes, so there's no need to write to us: but Kirsty will let you know if you've got the right solution at the beginning of next week's edition.
Broadcasts
- Mon 18 Mar 2024 15:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sat 23 Mar 2024 23:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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