Programme 8, 2024
Kirsty Lang chairs another contest of wordplay and cryptic connections, with Scotland taking on Northern Ireland for the second time this series.
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Kirsty Lang welcomes back the pairs from Scotland and Northern Ireland in another revenge fixture, after Northern Ireland's victory the last time these teams met. Val McDermid and Alan McCredie are the Scotland team, and Paddy Duffy and Freya McClements represent Northern Ireland.
Questions in today's edition:
Q1 What could Hobson's employer, Robert E. Howard's Barbarian and Pauline McLynn be said to have jointly contributed to the history of detection?
Q2 (from Michael Beech) What links an aborted Carnegie Hall performance by a sensitive soloist, a quiz player changing his mind, and a traditional art form in Coimbra in Portugal?
Q3 Music: Which Tears for Fears song could you expect to hear next in this sequence?
Q4 (from Graham Bingham) If the following make a sequence: the father of the Living Dead, a cinematic pioneer, a monolithic sci-fi author, a Big Deal in a White House, and the Swazi companion of 'I' - which Arthurian brothers could come next?
Q5 If a Central African rebel movement bypasses Crawley and this piece of paper would take you to London from here, why might you sing about the number 8.124?
Q6 (from Robert Crawley) Music: Why might the band behind the fourth piece perform any, or all, of the other three?
Q7 If Denzel of the Netherlands teamed up with Gorgeous George, and Rachel's sometime boyfriend joined forces with the writer of 'Plastic Jesus', where would you find them all?
Q8 (from Peter Green) Explain how the following come between five and twenty: an untouched domain, a Fast and Furious action man, and an actor who portrayed a detective who sucked.
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The 2024 League Table
1 Wales Played 3 Won 2 Drawn 0 Lost 1 Total points 52
2 The Midlands P2 W2 D0 L0 Pts 44
3 Northern Ireland P2 W2 D0 L0 Pts 41
4 Scotland P2 W1 D0 L1 Pts 38
5 South of England P3 W0 D0 L3 Pts 50
6 North of England P2 W0 D0 L2 Pts 37
Last week's teaser question
You probably noticed that none of these works is especially appropriate for a military library, except for In Parenthesis - so the key lies in the names of the authors. They are, respectively, J.G. Fraser, Angus Wilson, David Jones and Alice Walker.
They thus share their surnames with characters in the sitcom Dad's Army - and the person who'd be in charge of them is therefore Captain Mainwaring.
Well done if you spotted that connection. Kirsty will provide another teaser question at the end of today's quiz.
This week's teaser question
Don't write in with your answer, just keep it in mind and see if you're right when Kirsty gives her solution next time.
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- Sun 28 Apr 202416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 4 May 202423:30BBC Radio 4
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