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Programme 2, 2023

Kirsty Lang puts cryptic questions to teams from the North of England and Scotland in the cult quiz show

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It's the turn of the North of England and Scotland to face off in the cryptic quiz for the first time this season. Kirsty Lang has the fiendish questions and will be deducting points every time she has to help them towards the correct solutions.

Stuart Maconie and Adele Geras play for the North of England, against Val McDermid and Alan McCredie for Scotland. Kirsty will also have the answer to the question she left tantalisingly at the end of the previous edition.

You can submit question ideas for the show at any time to rbq@bbc.co.uk

Producer: Paul Bajoria

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 22 Apr 2023 23:00

Last week's teaser question

Kirsty asked: Why might you be nervous about a film based on the life of Henri Charriere, a Schumann piano suite, a 1970s TV series starring Wendy Craig and the operatic forerunner of Miss Saigon?Β 
The answer is that they might give you 'butterflies' - because their titles are butterflies (in either English or French).
Papillon is the film based on the adventures of Henri Charriere, who survived incarceration on the notorious 'Devil's Island' in French Guiana. It starred Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen and was remade in 2017 with Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek.
Papillons, Op.2 was a suite of pieces for piano by Robert Schumann written when he was 21.
Butterflies was the Carla Lane sitcom which ran on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ television from 1978-83, based around the Parkinson family and starring Wendy Craig with Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Andrew Hall.
Madama Butterfly, Puccini's opera premiered in 1904, inspired the musical Miss Saigon.

Questions in today's programme

Q1 (from Michael Hipkins)Β  How could Alan Clark's controversial history of the Great War, depending on gender, produce either a smuggler of drugs or a person viewed with affection in the North-east?

Q2 (from Mickie Wynne-Davies)Β  How do a Scottish castle, the ghost of Elly Kedward and a former Prime Minister connect to a writer of dystopian fiction?
Q3Β  Music: What do these three pieces have in common?
Q4 (from Jonathan Perry)Β  Why might you or I complete the following sequence: The Spice Girls, the Hindu god Brahma, the guard-dog offspring of Echidna and Typhon, the inventor of the Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blaster?
Q5Β  Why might James Brown want you to take him to the setting for a Wordsworth sonnet of 1802, a Venetian prisoner's last lookout, and a place where he'd be feeling groovy?
Q6 (from Martin Jameson)Β  Music: Explain why the fourth describes the other three.
Q7 (from Alex Melnick)Β  Why would addressing a letter to the composer of a Christmas Song, the creator of a Norwegian Hole, an MI6 officer who created an MI6 officer, the originator of Elyot Chase and a Mocking presenter, have caused a problem for the typing pool?
Q8Β  What's the connection between one of the most prolific British writers of detective stories, tectonic plate theory, and Wensleydale cheese?

This week's teaser question

Why would the sound of clapping be out of place in the company of cricketer Richie, actress Yvonne and singer Gilbert?
There are no prizes but you can see if your answer matches ours when we reveal it next time.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 17 Apr 2023 15:00
  • Sat 22 Apr 2023 23:00

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