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I've just been listening to this on Radio 4, and thought it might interest some of you here if you haven't heard of it before. It's a cryptic quiz, and the questions are printed on the website so you can read them whilst you listen. I find it very tricky, but I still enjoy the show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qxpr
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Edwin Mead wrote:I've just been listening to this on Radio 4, and thought it might interest some of you here if you haven't heard of it before. It's a cryptic quiz, and the questions are printed on the website so you can read them whilst you listen. I find it very tricky, but I still enjoy the show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qxpr
Cheers Edwin. Enjoyed those. Very tricky but managed to get the gist of some of them. Wouldn't get the full six points very often though.
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I had a few questions accepted for RBQ (some years ago). I never heard them on air but friends said they had. Here is one i sent:

Question –
How can animal fat with some electrical current added give you a brilliant footballer who, when a Member of Parliament is replaced by the Big Apple, leaves you with enough rope to hang yourself.?


Answer -
lard (put in amp ) lampard (replace MP with Big apple) lanyard
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I thought of a question for the show. Just thought I'd post it here to see what people think.

How would a meeting of David Ike followers, 54, a lost continent and a gangster rapper in the top left corner, tell you who's playing.

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They are abbreviations of football teams that you see in the top left corner of the tv screen.
A meeting of David Ike followers = AV (alternative view) = Aston Villa
54 in Roman numerals = LIV = Liverpool
A lost Continent = MU = Manchester United
A gangster rapper = MC = Manchester City
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Mark James wrote:I thought of a question for the show. Just thought I'd post it here to see what people think.

How would a meeting of David Ike [sic] followers, 54, a lost continent and a gangster rapper in the top left corner, tell you who's playing.
Hmm. I wouldn't have got it anyway, but it didn't help that until I'd read the answer I misparsed the question as:
How would a meeting of:
  • David Icke followers;
  • 54;
  • a lost continent; and
  • a gangster rapper in the top left corner
tell you who's playing.
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Gangster rapper is a good bit too specific for MC - an MC to my mind is just as likely to introduce the bingo at Butlin's!
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The Round Britain Quiz is back on today at 3pm! Woo! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qxpr
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Back next week.
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A question submitted by me will feature on next week's episode (7th October @ 3pm). And last week a question was submitted by a Dave Taylor which I am pretty confident was Countdown's Dave Taylor.
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Ryan Taylor wrote:A question submitted by me will feature on next week's episode (7th October @ 3pm).
While I have nothing insightful to contribute, this is sufficiently awesome that it warrants some kind of comment, so here you go.
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The question submitted by Tony Atkins from Berkshire on last week's show was not from me, in case you were wondering.
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Tony Atkins wrote:The question submitted by Tony Atkins from Berkshire on last week's show was not from me, in case you were wondering.
Ha, I was actually.
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