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Title: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on September 09, 2008, 01:09:49 PM
I see DS is a fan. Current series ending.Love it.

Mind you, I have cheated. The weekend editon is repeated Monday.

Driving about with Mrs Nick on a Monday I have occasionally dazzled her with my erudition  whistle:

Any other fans?
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 09, 2008, 01:18:38 PM
Not a "fan" but I do listen to it.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Barman on September 09, 2008, 03:29:18 PM
 noooo:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 09:00:53 AM
Somewhat too cryptic for me, mainly because R4 is on 'in the background' and I often don't hear it well... which naturally makes it even more cryptic  confused:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 10, 2008, 09:05:38 AM
I like cryptic.  cloud9:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 03:11:09 PM
Cryptic Crossword?
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 10, 2008, 03:14:14 PM
Anything cryptic.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 03:19:25 PM
Clue:  A thousand in velvet would be a racing certainty
Two words  _ _ _ _ _    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Uncle Mort on September 10, 2008, 03:37:27 PM
Elizabeth Taylor.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 03:38:22 PM
You are on the right lines but five letters and eight letters.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 03:53:04 PM
Grand National
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 03:58:24 PM
Give that man a cigar!


Two words 6 letters & 6 letters

Barton runs like hell.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Barman on September 10, 2008, 03:58:48 PM
Grand National
happ096
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 04:01:35 PM
Give that man a cigar!


Two words 6 letters & 6 letters

Barton runs like hell.

Devil's Gallop

(lovely earworm... )
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 04:04:58 PM
Well done

One word 9 letters

Avian Insurance Headquarters
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 04:13:27 PM
 rubschin:

Cathedral?
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on September 10, 2008, 04:22:02 PM
I thnk some RBQ questions would be in order!
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 04:26:28 PM
Did you answer all the one's from the last prog then?
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 04:28:58 PM
rubschin:

Cathedral?

No Liverpool (Royal Liver Building)


And the connection is .............. Aintree  whistle:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 04:31:14 PM
Ahhh... Avian > Birds > Liver Birds  doh:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 04:32:08 PM
For Nick then...

What links dastardly doings in deepest Suffolk, the fourth planet from the sun, and a monument to Arts and Crafts; and how is the connection revealed by the work of a recent Nobel Prizewinner for Literature?
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Barman on September 10, 2008, 04:39:14 PM
rubschin:

Cathedral?

No Liverpool (Royal Liver Building)


And the connection is .............. Aintree  whistle:
I was going to say that!  cussing:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 04:41:44 PM
rubschin:

Cathedral?

No Liverpool (Royal Liver Building)


And the connection is .............. Aintree  whistle:
I was going to say that!  cussing:

Of course you were  char048

OK whats the link here:

Emma, Linnet, Holly and Willow.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Barman on September 10, 2008, 04:47:33 PM
rubschin:

Cathedral?

No Liverpool (Royal Liver Building)


And the connection is .............. Aintree  whistle:
I was going to say that!  cussing:

Of course you were  char048

OK whats the link here:

Emma, Linnet, Holly and Willow.
I bloody was!  cussing:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 04:49:03 PM
rubschin:

Cathedral?

No Liverpool (Royal Liver Building)


And the connection is .............. Aintree  whistle:
I was going to say that!  cussing:

Of course you were  char048

OK whats the link here:

Emma, Linnet, Holly and Willow.
I bloody was!  cussing:

Alright ~ keep your ............ errrrrr............  redface:

Anywhoo what about the connection question. What links Emma, Linnet, Holly and Willow?
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 04:54:28 PM
Sommat to do with birds and singing?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 04:57:57 PM
Nope
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 10, 2008, 05:15:25 PM
Anyhoo what about the connection question.
What links Emma, Linnet, Holly and Willow?

You sly old Welsh dog.  ;)
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on September 10, 2008, 05:16:19 PM
Close enough ~ yes they are the names of The Queen's Corgis










And I only live here ~ I am NOT Welsh  cussing:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on September 10, 2008, 05:30:26 PM
I am working on an idea about Doris Lessing  rubschin:

Mars is easy
Doris gorrit in 2007
Arts and Craft Monument:Red House- MOrris?
Red Planet
Golden Notebook
The Suffolk one eludes me at present.
Artistic or literary?

Red or Golden?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 06:27:00 PM
I haven't got the answer! It was from the last programme and, as I said earlier it was on in the background  redface:

But... I think the A & C monument is the V&A Museum... and the statue opposite was re-gilded in the last couple of years...

Is there a detective series set in Suffolk?

I have a cunning plan... I'll get the answer off the iPlayer listen again OK   cloud9:

Right.
Mars = red planet, correct
A&C monument = red house, correct

That leaves the Suffolk bit and the prizewinner. It's not Doris Lessing, although the team were going the same route if it's any consolation. Try a different year.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 10, 2008, 07:04:47 PM
I am working on an idea about Doris Lessing  rubschin:

Mars is easy
Doris gorrit in 2007
Arts and Craft Monument:Red House- MOrris?
Red Planet
Golden Notebook
The Suffolk one eludes me at present.
Artistic or literary?

Red or Golden?  rubschin:

Orhan Pamuk won it in 2006 and wrote a book called "My Name is Red"

Suffolk I have no idea, unless it is 'Suffolk red cabbage'  rubschin:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 07:08:36 PM
Bravo!

Apparently there was a famous case in 1827 ... The Murder in the Red Barn which occurred in Suffolk


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barn_Murder
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 10, 2008, 07:17:18 PM
I fear a couple of habitués might get this easily:

Where would you have found the following in a three-legged race, and all without a drop taken?
A storm-stirring sprite; what Jesus wants me for; a sans-pareil; a black leopard; and one who suffered for his sanity on a starry, starry night?

Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Barman on September 10, 2008, 07:56:37 PM
What the fuck...?  shrugs:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on September 10, 2008, 08:51:32 PM
I fear a couple of habitués might get this easily:

Where would you have found the following in a three-legged race, and all without a drop taken?
A storm-stirring sprite; what Jesus wants me for; a sans-pareil; a black leopard; and one who suffered for his sanity on a starry, starry night?



1. Ariel
2.Sunbeam
3.  Steam train or engine of some sort
4. Panther?
5  Vincent (Van G)

Are we in makes of car/bike  (obsolete largely) but the three legged race has me foxed ?

Anyhow it's late.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 10, 2008, 10:02:18 PM
I fear a couple of habitués might get this easily:

Where would you have found the following in a three-legged race, and all without a drop taken?
A storm-stirring sprite; what Jesus wants me for; a sans-pareil; a black leopard; and one who suffered for his sanity on a starry, starry night?



1. Ariel
2.Sunbeam
3.  Steam train or engine of some sort
4. Panther?
5  Vincent (Van G)

Are we in makes of car/bike  (obsolete largely) but the three legged race has me foxed ?

Anyhow it's late.

Motorbikes.
sans-pareil = Matchless

Three-legged race = IOM TT
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on September 11, 2008, 06:44:56 AM
I woke up at three with that three legged solution.Yes.IoM deffo.

But that "without a drop" but?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 11, 2008, 08:21:55 AM
I woke up at three with that three legged solution.Yes.IoM deffo.

But that "without a drop" but?  rubschin:

I am sure TMR will confirm that 'dropping' is two-wheeled slang for 'falling off'.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on September 11, 2008, 08:30:16 AM
 doh:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Pastis on September 11, 2008, 08:30:33 AM
Well done gents!

Without a drop taken ~ no alcohol ~ teetotal ~ TT ~ Tourist Trophy
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on September 11, 2008, 08:33:19 AM
I was going off on some riff about Thomas the Tank engine last night (Sodor and all that  redface:)
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on September 11, 2008, 08:50:31 AM
I was going off on some riff about Thomas the Tank engine last night (Sodor and all that  redface:)

Don't forget Gomorrah.
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on September 11, 2008, 09:50:51 AM
Gomorrah never comes?
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Nick on August 10, 2009, 11:47:01 AM
Been listening to the new series. Either I have got much much cleverer ( angel1) or the questions are dead easy. I think it's the latter  cry:
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 12, 2009, 08:25:15 PM
Been listening to the new series. Either I have got much much cleverer ( angel1) or the questions are dead easy. I think it's the latter  cry:
The latter is certainly the most likely
Title: Re: Round Britain Quiz
Post by: Snoopy on August 12, 2009, 08:48:13 PM
If the last programme I listened to is anything to go by the questions have got easier. But then any question to which you know the answer is easy.