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Programme 3, 2015

Northern Ireland take on the south of England in the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections, chaired by Tom Sutcliffe.

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If Darlington is worth 550, why would Manchester be worth twenty times as much as Liverpool - and why is Motherwell worth Manchester and Liverpool added together?

Tom Sutcliffe welcomes teams from the South of England and Northern Ireland this week, clashing for the first time in the current series. This year the South of England is represented by the author and Independent columnist Marcus Berkmann and the science writer Simon Singh. Playing for Northern Ireland are the writer Polly Devlin and the historian and commentator Brian Feeney.

They'll need to muster all of their arcane general knowledge and powers of lateral thinking, to tackle RBQ's trademark cryptic questions.
As always the programme includes question ideas suggested by listeners - and Tom will be revealing the answer to the teaser he set at the end of the previous edition.

Producer: Paul Bajoria.

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 7 Nov 2015 23:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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Last week's teaser question

Tom asked: Why might Fry's solicitor and the greatest of all Victorian engineers give you a clue as to how Jay-Z came out of DC?

The solicitor playedÌýby Stephen Fry, in the ITV drama series set in East Anglia, was Peter Kingdom. Isambard Kingdom Brunel is the engineer we were thinking of. Both of these might suggest Jay-Z's 2006 album Kingdom Come, inspired by a DC comics graphic novel of the same title - hence the reference to 'coming out of DC'.

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Questions in this programme

Q1Ìý To which verb could you add four different prepositions in order to: call for silence, exclude, confine, and finish work?

Q2Ìý (from Peter Vigurs): If Darlington is worth 550, then Manchester is worth twenty times Liverpool, and Motherwell equals Manchester and Liverpool added together. Can you explain?

Q3Ìý (Music/voices)Ìý Why might these make you think of Harry Houdini?

Q4Ìý What might Dr Parnassus do with Moliere's Argan, Soren Lorenson and the squareÌýroot of minus 1?

Q5Ìý Where might you find together the first Irish Eurovision winner, the man whom Donald Sinclair inspired, and Scout Finch's collard-patch friend?Ìý

Q6Ìý (Music)Ìý In which annual competition might these all be contenders?

Q7Ìý The first, cinematically speaking, is repeatedly bloody, whilst a professed dislike of the second was allegedly used as an excuse for a bloodbath. The third is an actress who forms a strong bond; the fourth is also known as Miss Addams; and the fifth is Gilbert's nightmare. What is the sixth, and why is it popularly associated with poets?

Q8Ìý (from Michael Marett-Crosby): If I leave a South African batsman and take the Embassy car to visit a literary mayor of Rye and an apologetic mathematician, why would I end up all alone?

This week's teaser question

What's similar about Lady Chatterley, a man without whom German electronic music wouldn't have been the same, and Mrs Charlie Brooker?

Don't write or e-mail with the answer, there are no prizes - but you can find out if you're right at the beginning of the next edition.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 2 Nov 2015 15:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
  • Sat 7 Nov 2015 23:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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