
Programme 4, 2021
Tom Sutcliffe chairs the contest of lateral thinking and cryptic connections between teams from around the UK. Northern Ireland take on the North of England today.
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Why might Edgar's foul fiend, a cartoon spirit with Kenneth Williams's voice, and Charlie Cairoli, appear insoluble?
Tom Sutcliffe has a whole sheaf of apparently insoluble questions just like this, in the latest Round Britain Quiz. Paddy Duffy and Freya McClements appear for Northern Ireland, opposite Adele Geras and Stuart Maconie for the North of England, all of them taking part from home under lockdown conditions. Tom will be awarding and deducting points according to how many clues he has to give them, and how many times he has to steer them away from red herrings, in arriving at the answers.
As always, there's a generous selection of questions supplied by Round Britain Quiz listeners, and Tom will be revealing the answer to the puzzle left unanswered at the end of last week's edition.
Producer: Paul Bajoria
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Last week's teaser question
The answer is Beethoven's - because the question contains the nicknames of eight of his sonatas, all but one of them for piano.Â
Piano sonata no.8 is the Pathetique; no.25 is the Cuckoo; no.12 is the Funeral March and no.17 the Tempest. No.23 is the Appassionata, no.18 the Hunt and no.14 the Moonlight. And the odd one out (although we didn't ask this) is the final one, Spring, which is the name of his violin sonata No.5 in F major.
Questions in today's programme
Q2Â Why might Edgar's foul fiend, a cartoon spirit with Kenneth Williams's voice, and Charlie Cairoli, appear insoluble?
Q3Â Music:Â What do these pieces have in common?
Q4 (from Peter Slater) Why might you prefer to avoid the journalist son of the late Bishop of Whitby, the midwife Jennie Lee, a town near Altrincham and a former Â鶹ԼÅÄ radio newsreader?
Q5 (from Terry O'Brien)Â Why might the following form a portentous quartet: Herbert's invasion story, Daniel's 365-day chronicle, Patrick's great hunger, and Ernest's post-meridian event?
Q6Â Music: What could be the family connection?
Q7 (from Neil Hadfield)Â Which landmark on Floyd Road, London SE7, might get you part of the way towards the ground between Fedioukine and Causeway, where Lancashire is found in Yorkshire, and a Mourneful place beneath the Slieves?
Q8Â What could be considered contradictory about: a former English chess champion taking a holiday in a California tourist resort; a writer best known for Yorkshire-set thrillers visiting a historic East Sussex abbey town; and a northern cartoonist corresponding with a South American footballer?
This week's teaser question
There are no prizes! - but you can see if you're right when we reveal the solution next time.
Rankings
1 The Midlands  W1 D0 L0  Total points 22
2 Northern Ireland  W1 D0 L0  Total points 18
3= South of England  W0 D1 L0  Total points 21
3= North of England  W0 D1 L0  Total points 21
5 Scotland  W0 D0 L1  Total points 19
6 Wales  W0 D0 L1  Total points 17
Broadcasts
- Mon 29 Mar 2021 15:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Sat 3 Apr 2021 23:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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