The cryptic questions of Round Britain Quiz have become legendary and you can suggest your own questions to test the teams by going to our Contact Us page.
Monday 1.30-2.00pm Rpt: Sat 11-11.30pm
23 June - 13 September 2008
Six teams from around the UK compete to answer Tom Sutcliffe's puzzling questions which call for a certain degree of lateral thinking and draw upon knowledge in fields as diverse as literature, science, geography, and popular culture.
The 2008 series has now ended. You can catch the repeat of the final show on Saturday night at 11pm, or via listen again.
The final results for the series are as follows:
1st place - The Midlands with 4 victories and 79 points
2nd place - Northern Ireland with 2 victories and 69 points
3rd place - South of England with 2 victories and 68 points
4th place - Scotland with 2 victories and 62 points
5th place - Wales with 1 victory and 77 points
6th place - North of England with 1 victory and 60 points
The questions asked in the final programme are as follows:
Question 1 – listener question from Richard Humm via email
South of England
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?
Question 2 - listener question from Colin Edwards in Cambridge
Wales
Gaius Caesar and Arthur Wellesley, together, might have inspired comment on the tedium of military life. Can you explain?
Question 3 - listener question from Peter Cole in Cardiff
South of England
How might these help you in cyberspace?
Question 4 - listener question from Martyn Wilson via email
Wales
Which of the three composers represented here is the odd one out?
Question 5 - listener question from David Prime in Monmouth
South of England
A medic for whom three stars shone; the patron saint of television; five lines of humorous poetry; and a doubly-converted advocate of penal reform. When did they become separated from six of their equals?
Question 6 - listener question from Jude Rymer in York
Wales
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?
Question 7 - listener question from Jeff Flatters in the Rhondda
South of England
If males on a Devon hill teach, and guns on the same hill shout, and urban music on the same hill hunts, which is the odd one out?
Question 8 - listener question fromPeter Vigurs in Stoke on Trent
Wales
What connects: a fugitive from Sodom; a lyric charmer; a ruler of the Alhambra; and why would they have profited from modern advice in a Bob Dylan documentary?
If you'd like to submit a question for potential inclusion in the next series please doContact Us.
Last week's teaser question was: If you had been the most prominent member of a group whose members also included Robert Winter, Christopher Wright, John Wright, Thomas Percy and others, how would you be commemorated?
Answer: The answer is that you’d be Guy Fawkes, because these are names of other members of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. So your annual commemoration would be to be burnt on a bonfire.
