Programme 9, 2024

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(9/12) Earlier in the series when Stephen Maddock and Frankie Fanko of the Midlands played Stuart Maconie and Adele Geras of the North of England, the Midlands won emphatically. Can the North reverse the result today? Kirsty Lang provides the cryptic questions and the helpful hints too, if they need them. The questions in today's quiz are: Q1 Why would a breath-freshening confectionery item, the object of Adrian Mole's affections, and a Beethoven piano sonata, be likely to please the Prime Minister? Q2 (from David Brain) Why might racing to the Isle of Man help you to get a pint that's been improved, a lascivious look that results in correspondence, or a visionary who writes quiz questions? Q3 Music: Which entrapped family would particularly enjoy this sequence, and what might be their contribution? Q4 (from Dr Anthony Edwards) If fifth place might make you think of a rifle, fourth place is a Victorian singer in search of something, third place gave us The Iron Heel and second place sounds like the voice of Radiohead, why would first place go to a sort of bookstand? Q5 (from Charlie Wakely) Why could the progenitors of an unusually arch handbag and a poetic account of a seat of learning for women find common cause in a railway station bookshop? Q6 (from Jill Butler) Music: How might these musicians add colour to the lives of Miss Sharp's school principal, a faithless naval officer and a man who set investigations in motion in the mid-19th century? Q7 (from Keith Scholes) Why might a vainglorious poetic king of kings, the voice of Yoda, an obscenity trial, an Argentine midfielder and manager, and the leader of a musical occult meeting, lead you to the real and lyrical origins of some working men? Q8 (from Peter Green) A Scot would know how a high-ranking mafioso and a high-ranking Ottoman leader might come together with a pseudonymous writer killed by a sniper in the First World War, to form the subject of a Peter Blake canvas. Do you? Producer: Paul Bajoria