Programme 6 - Wales vs Scotland
Kirsty Lang referees a contest between Wales and Scotland in the notoriously cryptic quiz. 6/12
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Teams from all over the UK will face Kirsty Lang's cryptic questions across the series, with Kirsty offering support and the odd hint where it might be needed.
This sixth contest features Wales and Scotland.
Questions in today's edition:
Q1: (from Tim Riley) You’re looking for 5 words. Why might a hidden collection that includes facial hair, chocolate icing, Rhone grapes, and wet shredded paper all leave you in pain?
Q2: Why would Maurice Micklewhite, A Henry James Novel, and a Macauley Culkin film from 1991, all be welcome chez nous? And why would it be fun?
Q3: Music: I’d like you to tell me why you might find them all refreshing.
Q4: (from Michael Hipkins)
Here are some directions for a long road journey:
Head clockwise through lush greenery,
then take the rugged southern route.
Continue until the landscape turns golden.
Pass through a bright, white stretch,
Then as the sun blazes overhead,
your destination lies where light shimmers on the horizon.
Where are you?
Q5 Why are…
an inactive element used in welding, episodes in Ulysses, prohibition, racehorses, and 75% pure gold…
…all legal milestones
Q6 Music: Listen to these songs and tell me why they’d all land on their feet.
Q7 (from Alan Hay) Where would these lead you… A supernatural BBC sitcom, a present for Queen Mary, Hostis Publicus and a discontented wife
Q8 (from Stephen Murphy) Why might Wallace's ways of looking, Alfred's thunderbolt and Gerard's morning's minion - hold a seat in Geoffrey's parliament?
Teams:
Cariad Lloyd and Myfanwy Alexander - Wales
Val McDermid and Alan McCredie - Scotland
Host: Kirsty Lang
Recorded by: Phil Booth
Sound Design: Chris Maclean
Production Coordinator: Caroline Barlow
Producer: Carl Cooper
Questions set by:
Lucy Porter Paul Bajoria and public contributors.
On radio
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Last week's teaser question
What drink would all of these love?An admiral who invaded Tokyo Bay, an Italian lake croonera ‘firework’ singer, a cross-dressing artist and a gentleman tennis player?
They’d all love a Babycham (or something similar) as they’re all ‘Perrys’.
Admiral Matthew Perry – 19th century US naval officer who headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853–54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation.Perry Como – known for songs such as Magic Moments, his surname is that of one of the Italian lakes.Katy Perry – her hits include ‘Firework’, from her 2010 album Teenage Dream.Sir Grayson Perry – Turner prizewinner in 2003 who works in a variety of mediums, is best known as a ceramicist, and has a female alter ego called Clare.Fred Perry - A tennis player whose achievements included winning three consecutive Wimbledon gentlemen’s singles championships between 1934 and 36.
So they might all drink perry (an alcoholic drink made from pears), the most famous brand of which is Babycham. Invented by Francis Showering, a brewer in Shepton Mallet, Somerset and renowned for its logo featuring a chamois deer.
This week’s teaser question
What links:Quick setting gypsum plasterScented formulations in a typical concentration of 2-4%And a term for bankers coined in 1964 by politician George Brown
Broadcasts
- Last Sunday 16:30BBC Radio 4
- Today 23:30BBC Radio 4
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