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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 seventh contest features the second meeting of Northern Ireland and The Midlands.

You can follow the questions in each edition on the Round Britain Quiz webpages. Each week’s questions will be posted on the day of transmission.

Teams:
Paddy Duffy and Freya McClements – Northern Ireland
Stephen Maddock and Frankie Fanko – The Midlands

Questions in today’s edition:

Q1 (from James Douglas) What trip transforms…
Francis into a Frank, David into a Michael, Albert into a Fred, Alf into an Archie, and Basil into a Royal?

Q2 Why would a French refusal bookending a roman nine allow you to get intimate with the following …
Basil Brush’s first ever magical mister
Eisenhower’s running mate
One of the gal pals from Sex in the City
And Marilyn and Audrey’s ghost singer

Q3a – MAIN
Music: (from Phil Ware)
Can you tell me, why might Miles have united these artists a very long time ago?

Q3b – ONLINE VERSION
Why would a world tour by the bands behind Ventura Highway, Heat of the Moment, and Carrie have been much easier a very long time ago, especially if they’d gone on stage after Agharta?

Q4 What is the ecclesiastical connection between:
Francesco Stephen Castelluccio
Artichoke, tomato, mushroom and prosciutto
A gardening business in Philadelphia
And a 1725 contest between Harmony and Invention?

Q5 Look closely at this travel itinerary and see if you can uncover the secret destinations:
Take a promenade around the Colosseum, or an opportunist visit to the land of Carthage.
Enjoy origami at the Freedom Monument or talk about the climate at Machu Picchu.
Search a comparison site near the Eiffel Tower, or hibernate in The Alps.
What’s the hidden link between these sentences?

Q6a – MAIN
Music: What’s the connection. There’s a common thread here, but don’t be fooled… One of them is not all that it seems…

Q6b- ONLINE VERSION
A solo keyboard piece named for a harpsichordist
A riff-heavy track from an Ohio garage-rock band at the height of their commercial powers
A swaggering Manchester groove from the late ’80s
A brooding 1970s track from a famously fraught album
Each of these tracks hints at something precious, yet one’s shine is a clever illusion. What ties them together, and which stands apart?

Q7 (from Simon Meara) What links…
Some Dutch Caribbean islands
A lifesaving mnemonic
An Agatha Christie novel featuring Mr. Cust
A defunct cinema chain
And why might they make you think of Mississippi’s capital?

Q8 What links …
A composer who taught Liszt and wrote exercises for nimble fingers
Jamie Lee’s father
Dostoevsky’s final masterpiece
A reggae band who Don’t Turn Around
& A famous TV matchmaker.
And which of them is the imposter?

Host: Kirsty Lang
Recorded by: Phil Booth
Sound Design: Chris Maclean
Production Coordinator: Caroline Barlow
Producer: Carl Cooper

Questions set by:
Lucy Porter, Alan Poulton, and public contributors.

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