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Radio 4,28 Apr 2024,28 mins

Programme 8, 2024

Round Britain Quiz

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(8/12) 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. Producer Paul Bajoria

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