The Round Britain Quiz

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Well you all know that I like a quiz...

These are the questions from this week's "Round Britain Quiz" on Radio 4, probably the most obscure quiz currently being broadcast. Frankly, I think the questions have become a lot easier now, but I'm still quite chuffed if I get half of them half right. I managed to hear about half of this week's show when I was out at lunchtime.

Naturally, R4 publishes the questions, but not the answers - let's see how we get along with this lot...

The questions asked in this week's programme are as follows:
Question 1
North of England

Relatively speaking, can you connect Max Ernst to a New York museum developed by The Ladies, and Kuryakin's gang?

I have MOMA established by the Ladies, and UNCLE, Ilya Kuryakin's agency - can anyone help me with Max Ernst? Was he a Dada-ist?

Question 2
Scotland

What might be the vehicle of choice of Pip’s lawyer acquaintance, a printer of the First Folio, and the Dartford Warbler?

Question 3
North of England

How is this linked to America’s favourite under-achiever, a Devon river, and a letter of the alphabet? (The music clue was a synthesiser version of "The Ode to Joy".

The river is The Dart, Bart Simpson is the under-achiever, The El is the letter of the alphabet, and the movie was A Clockwork Orange - all rapid transit systems (the last being the nickname for Glasgow's Underground)

Question 4
Scotland

Where in the world are we? (Audio question: they played  "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega, "Christopher Columbus" by William Walton, and a version of "On Broadway", so it wasn't too dificult.

On Broadway..

Question 5 – listener question from Vin Sherlock in Nottingham
North of England

Take us with small additions from: a silver symbol; to a racehorse owner and Imam with no shortage of the first; to a type of tale sometimes associated with part of the second; to a French writer whose works might be seen as intellectual versions of the third.

Question 6 – listener question from Roland Howell in Darlington
Scotland

One who had to make a great personal sacrifice, in order to gain wisdom, by an ash tree;
an opponent whom a Tuscan army admired for his courage; and an exploitative pedagogue of the 19 ^th century, had just one thing in common. What was it? And who are they?

Question 7
North of England

On which road might you have encountered the Dark Lady of DNA, a still superhero, London’s Mercurial editor, and Lassie’s father?

The road to Canterbury: A Reeve, and a Knight - don't know the editor, or the third discoverer of DNA though.

Question 8
Scotland

Fred was ginger, Don was psychotic, and Ed was known for his inside leg measurement; but John, unfortunately, was dead. Who were they and where did they come from?

Um, Kings - Barbarossa, Donald the Mad (Scotland), Edward Longshanks (England), and John the Late of France

Comments

Re: Question 5

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Françoise Sagan?

I'm confused by the geographical notations. Since #4 is obviously New York City (and in fact, the Upper West Side, where I live), what does it have to do with Scotland? We do drink a good bit of whisky here, but the Cosmos are still gaining ground even though the Mojitos are pretty much old news these days.

Re: Question 5

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

The quiz is played between two teams from different regions - in this case Scotland v North of England. Oh, and you've got the right Sagan!