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Programme 11, 2024

Kirsty Lang is in the chair for the penultimate contest in the current series, featuring the teams from the Midlands and the South of England.

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The Midlands and the South of England teams join Kirsty Lang for the penultimate contest in this series of the cryptic quiz. For the final time this year, Frankie Fanko and Stephen Maddock face Paul Sinha and Marcus Berkmann.

Today's questions are:

Q1 In Edinburgh someone shows you to your seat at a wedding. In Poole you're in a place that sends warnings to ships. In Manchester you'd find Simon & Garfunkel's last album with the middle missing. So where has a herb recently become a prison?

Q2 Someone who put his signature on a urinal, two people of very different heights, and Robert John Lange: what kind of dog might they all own?

Q3 (from Daniel Kitto) Music: Why might these all lead to recognition?

Q4 The Hasmonean dynasty, the sweetest innovation of Catherine de Medici, Yankee Doodle's feathered cap, and somewhere you'd go to gamble in China: shouldn't they be Scottish?

Q5 Why do Stravinsky's operatic Turk, an artistic hobby-horse, Cass Elliot and an Ottoman royal tutor appear to be caught in a lava flow?

Q6 Music: Why might you unearth this piece of music, and Bathsheba's feckless husband, and the creator of Z-Cars, at Hissarlik?

Q7 (from Isabel Evans) What links a Scottish dialect and one used by Dante and Petrarch, a sporting individual, and a chemical bond? And why might all of this interest a hermit near Aleppo?

Q8 (from Tom Peach) If the sports stars Michael Slater, Lionel Messi and John Milburn invited you for dinner, who might be on the menu?

Producer: Paul Bajoria

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28 minutes

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Sat 25 May 2024 23:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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The 2024 League Table

With just two games to go, the rankings of the teams at this stage in the series is as follows:

1  Northern Ireland    Played 4  Won 2  Drawn 1  Lost 1  Total points 75
2  Wales    P4  W2  D1  L1   Pts 71
3  The Midlands    P3  W2  D1  L0  Pts 62
4  Scotland    P3  W2  D0  L1   Pts 59
5  North of England    P3  W0  D1  L2   Pts 55
6  South of England   P3  W0  D0  L3   Pts 50 

Last week's teaser question

Last week Kirsty set this question at the end of the programme:
What connects Edward I, an actor who played twins, a treatise against witchcraft and a song by Pete Seeger?

You didn't need to be a fan of a certain London football club to work out that these are all Hammers, of one sort or another. Edward I was known as the Hammer of the Scots because of his aggressive campaigns north of the border. The actor is Armie Hammer, who played the twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss in the movie The Social Network. The treatise is Malleus Maleficarum ('a hammer to the wicked'), a denunciation of witchcraft first published in 15th century Germany. And the Pete Seeger song that fits the theme is 'If I Had a Hammer'.

This week's teaser question

Have a think about this question until it's time for the next edition, when you can see if your solution matches Kirsty's. 

Can you grasp the connection between a tiny fairy-tale character, a hunting dog, a well-chronicled parish, a circus arena and half of a porcine duo? 

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 May 2024 16:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
  • Sat 25 May 2024 23:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

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