Programme 6, 2024
Kirsty Lang is in the chair for the game of cryptic connections, this week between the teams from Scotland and the North of England.
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Kirsty Lang welcomes back the Scots and the North of England to the Round Britain Quiz drawing room. Both teams are looking for their first win of the 2024 series. Val McDermid and Alan McCredie play for Scotland, against Stuart Maconie and Adele Geras of the North of England.
Today's questions are:
Q1 (from James Bingham) Where might you find the lover of Mikhail's writer hero, the catch-phrase 'Book 'em Danno', a suite of violin concerti and Jagger's man of wealth and taste?
Q2 (from Jeff Flatters) What's the double connection between a Caribbean watering-hole, a group of Celtic cross-dressers and some custard?
Q3 Music: Where might you find these in close proximity?
Q4 (from Jonathan Allum) What's the connection between a 1968 novel by Agatha Christie, a 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury, a 1973 novel by Alastair Maclean and a 2022 novel by Gabrielle Zevin, and why might you have to be careful when explaining it?
Q5 Explain why Isherwood's Cabaret heroine, a Glasgow rock band who celebrated Miss America, and a Gungan General (twice), might help you with dinner?
Q6 (from Ivan Whetton) Music: Who are these people, and why might Potter's Marlowe complete a quartet?
Q7 (from Dave Ruddiman) Why would gravity work against an unauthorised habitation, Caribbean spicing, a contaminant-free facility and a Guy Ritchie thriller?
Q8 (from Charles Gilman) Where do the namesakes of Billy Bunter, Peter Chapman and Harry Angstrom meet, and how did Jane Smiley cover ten times their territory?
Producer: Paul Bajoria
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The Round Britain Quiz league table 2024
1聽 The Midlands聽 聽 聽 Played 2聽 Won 2聽 Drawn 0聽 Lost 0聽 Total points 44
2聽 Northern Ireland聽 聽 聽P2聽 W2聽 D0聽 L0聽 Pts 41
3聽 Wales聽 聽 聽 P2聽 W1聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 35
4聽 South of England聽 聽 聽 P2聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 34
5聽 North of England聽 聽 P1聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 19
6聽 Scotland聽 聽 聽 P1聽 W0聽 D0聽 L1聽 Pts 18聽聽
Last week's teaser question
A book by Madonna, a play by Mae West and a shop run by Vivienne Westwood: what did they all share?
The answer is the name Sex. Madonna's glossy photobook of that name caused controversy on its appearance in 1992. Mae West, never shy of controversy, wrote a play entitled Sex in 1926 under the pen-name Jane Mast, and starred in it on Broadway with considerable success until it was shut down by the police and she was briefly jailed for obscenity. It was also the name of the boutique Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren opened on the King's Road in Chelsea in the mid 1970s, which helped define the look of the punk movement and whose clientele included some prominent punk performers.
Kirsty will have another teaser at the end of today's quiz.
This week's teaser question
Where could you find the Gentlemen's one, inside the Emperor's one, inside the Prince's one - and what are they?
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- Sun 14 Apr 2024 16:30大象传媒 Radio 4
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