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Programme 3, 2024

Kirsty Lang is in the chair for the cryptic contest between nations and regions of the UK. This week the North of England take on the Midlands.

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How could you twist Prince Harry's recollections so that they appear to involve fruit of the genus Pyrus, an assegai and a goalkeeper with real personality?

Only in an episode of Round Britain Quiz are you likely to hear a question like this: and sure enough the panel will have to deal with it, and plenty of others like it, in today's programme. Kirsty Lang is in the chair as the North of England team of Stuart Maconie and Adele Geras face the Midlands team, Frankie Fanko and Stephen Maddock.

Today's questions:

Q1 How could you twist Prince Harry's recollections so that they appear to involve fruit of the genus Pyrus, an assegai and a goalkeeper with real Personality?

Q2 (from John Moran) If you add nothing to Oscar, Judy Garland, an acclaimed disco band and a stringed instrument, to what would you need to add nothing to complete the quintet?

Q3 Music: What have these pieces got to do with the number 617?

Q4 (from Charles Gilman) Why, if they scored three goals each, might it help James the crime-writer to deal with childhood, Lewis the comedian to deal with old age, and Norman the film critic to deal with obesity?

Q5 Why might Clint Eastwood talk to a Senegalese band who were specialists in all styles, a Paul Thomas Anderson film with a quiz show backdrop, and a borough where midwives are regularly called?

Q6 Music: Can you rank these from lowest to highest?

Q7 (from Karl Sabbagh) Allowing for spelling variations, why might an area of the Low Countries and a large bird; an insect and part of a ship; a northern town and another name for sage; and a cooking method and a form of transport, all keep you amused?

Q8 Beginning with a Greek singer turned MEP, progress down a Northampton river with an Italian jazz trumpeter and an avant-garde Italian composer - and explain how you'd finally team up with a powerful gaming character in the League of Legends?

Producer: Paul Bajoria

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28 minutes

Last on

Sat 30 Mar 2024 23:00

Last week's teaser question

Last week Kirsty left the following question for you to be thinking about: Why might the singer of 'Born Free', Norma Jeane Daugherty and a prolific writer of short stories be just three of 282?
The answer is that they are all Munros, with a few spelling variations - and 282 is the generally accepted total of Scottish summits above 3000 ft, named Munros after the Victorian mountaineer Sir Hugh Munro.
So they are, in turn: Matt Monro, who sang the John Barry theme to the 1966 movie Born Free; Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Daugherty was her first married name); and the writer H.H. Munro who rose to great fame as a writer of short stories under the pen-name Saki.
Listen for another 'teaser' question at the end of today's edition.

This week's teaser question

Why might a first-century Iranian empire, a lyre-playing son of Zeus, the King of the Fairies and a one-eyed Norse god take you by surprise?

Don't write to us with the answer, but you can find out if you're right when Kirsty reveals the solution at the beginning of the next edition.聽

Broadcasts

  • Mon 25 Mar 2024 15:00
  • Sat 30 Mar 2024 23:00

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