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This is the BBC. Hello

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and welcome to another contest of

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wordplay connections and mental contortions. Last

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time Scotland played Northern Ireland earlier

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in the series, Northern Ireland were

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the victors. Let's see what happens

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this time round. It is

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a warm welcome back to Val McDermott and

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Alan McCready. Fran McClelland and Patty Duffy are

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back for Northern Ireland. Well, the

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very best of luck to you all. I'm very

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happy to be handing the teams their question papers

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now because it's only fair to let them see

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often very long and wordy

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questions written down. And

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while the teams read through the questions with

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mounting horror, I'll give you the answer to

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last week's cliffhanger question, which I left you

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to think about. It went

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as follows. The military library contained

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the books, the Golden Bough, Anglo-Saxon

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Attitudes, In Parenthesis and You Can't

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Keep a Good Woman Down. Who

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might be in charge of it? The

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key, as you might expect, is in

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the names of the authors of those

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titles who are respectively JG

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Fraser, Angus Wilson,

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David Jones and Alice Walker.

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They all share their surnames with the

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characters in Dad's army. So the answer

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as to who might be in charge

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is Captain Mannering. So

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let's invite today's team to fall in.

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Remember, there is a maximum of six

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points available for each question and

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the points are docked for barking up

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the wrong tree. or for

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needing excessive clues from myself.

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We're going to start with you today

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Val and Alan for Scotland. What

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could Hobson's employer Robert

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E Howard's Barbarian and

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Pauline Maclin be said to

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have jointly contributed to the

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history of detection? So

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what could Hobson's employer, Robert E

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Howard's Barbarian and Pauline Maclin have

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said to have jointly contributed to

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the history of detection? I think

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this is for you Val. Well

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yeah, elementary indeed. I'm

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drawn instantly of course to Pauline Maclin, the

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inimitable Pauline Maclin with Mrs Doyle from Father

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Ted. You will, you will, you will. Go

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on, go on, go on. Sorry,

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sorry the Irish team. Which

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led us inexorably backwards as

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it were. To Conan the

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Barbarian, the books,

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having the film I guess. So

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Hobson's employer from Hobson's Choice.

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With the Arthur. And together they make

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Arthur Conan Doyle who of course gave

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us Sherlock Holmes, great

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consulting detective. That is

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absolutely right. Can you tell me a little bit more

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about, you're right it

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is Arthur Hobson's employer but do

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you remember the film that this is

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possibly referring to? Was it?

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Oh Arthur, that's Arthur with

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you know the little one. Correct

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and Hobson was the foul-mouthed butler

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indeed. It was John

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Gilgood. Astonishingly

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he won his only Oscar for

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playing the partner in Arthur. So

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but you're right, the

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greatest contribution to the history of

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detection is arguably that of Sherlock

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Holmes or rather his creator Arthur

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Conan Doyle and the three clues

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in this question give

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us an Arthur Conan Doyle.

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and a well. And that

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is a six out of six. Good.

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Question two to Northern Ireland. Paddy

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and Freya, your next question comes

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from Mike Beach, who listens to

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RBQ from his home in Italy.

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Ciao, Mike. And

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it is, what links an

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aborted Carnegie Hall performance by

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a sensitive soloist, a

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quiz player changing his mind, a

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traditional art form in Coimbra

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in Portugal? So

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what links an aborted Carnegie Hall

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performance by a sensitive soloist, a

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quiz player changing his mind, and

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a traditional art form in Coimbra

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in Portugal? Well, in

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Roembritt and Quiz, it's always imperative to

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look for patterns. We're thinking the patterns

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might be a

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good line of inquiry here. Quiz

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player changing his mind made me think, is

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it terminology that we would often use, especially

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if you've got like a 50-50 answer, is

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that, and you go wrong, is it

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you zig when you should have zagged?

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Is zigzag what we're after here? No.

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OK. Well, so maybe, to

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come at it from another avenue, the

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traditional art form in Coimbra, I've got

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two contenders here. Is

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it patterned tiles, patterned tiles on walls?

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So Northern Portugal is quite big for that kind of

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thing. Will we

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go down for fado? Yes. Fado

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thing? Fado music, yeah. Yeah, the answer's

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in fado music. OK. So are

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we looking for something that's to do with

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wordplay on fado, F-A-D-O? No. No,

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OK. So, I mean,

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in terms of the sensitive soloist, many

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people have been awed by playing Big Andy's Room.

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When you say sensitive soloist, this is a

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pianist, presumably, as opposed to a singer. Yes,

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yeah. A jazz pianist. He

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was somewhat put off his performance by...

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Was this recently? 2011

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to be fair. I

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think you should go to the quiz player

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because it's quite a famous

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incident. Oh, is this,

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oh, it's coughing. It's coughing, isn't it?

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Yes, it's me. Well, they call Major Ingram the

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coughing major, although he wasn't actually the one that

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was coughing. He was the, this was the beneficiary

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of the coughing. So yes, so that's

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what that is. And he was put out and that the

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soloist put off by coughing and he, he, he,

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he, he bent it off. And they're

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coughing in fatter with something with

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the way you use your voice.

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It's, it's a way of showing

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appreciation apparently in Coimbra. It is

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traditional performances of Fado music to

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show appreciation by rhythmic coughing or

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throat clearing noises rather than applause.

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And can you remember the name

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of the soloist who walked

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off stage in objection to the coughing

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at the Carnegie Hall? Trying to think of

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some famous painters like Lang Lang or someone look at

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or, um, no, he's a bit too

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chirpy for that kind of thing. This was a more tortured.

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Um, no,

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I think we might be, I think we might be free. I think

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we've got a stage right

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here. Yeah. So, so

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you did get, get it right that what

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links the, these, these three elements of the

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question is coughing. The jazz

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pianist Keith Jarrett walked off stage in objection

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to the audience coughing and taking photos of

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the Carnegie Hall concert in, in New York

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in 2011. Major

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Charles Ingram was convicted of obtaining money by

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deception after who wants to be a millionaire

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scandal in 2001 because a jury found that

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the fellow contestant, uh, was

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in fact an accomplice who'd been

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coughing to signal, uh, correct answers,

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prompting Ingram to change his

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answer at some significant moments. Um,

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and then we have, uh, yes, you cough

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in a sign of appreciation, um, in the,

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uh, Portuguese city of Coimbra, if, if you

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see a good bit of Fado

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music. Um, so that was a

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bit of a struggle there. So, um, I don't think

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I can give you more than three actually for that

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one, three out of six. And

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that takes us to question three for

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Scotland. Val and Alan, it's

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music time. I want you to

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listen to the following pieces and

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tell me which Tears

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for Fears song might you expect

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to hear next? Don't

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you tell it to the breeze or

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she will tell the birds and bees

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and everyone will know because

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you'd hold the blabbering tree. So

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you heard three bits of

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music there.

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Which Tears for Fears song might you

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expect to hear next? There's

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a sort of graduation involved here. There's

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a crescendo, I think, that's the way I'm

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involved with that. We think the number

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one, although it's a different version that I

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know from my youth, is Whispering Grass. Correct.

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Which the version I know is Donifdale and

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Winter of Deaness. Which is great. Totally,

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it's like the other thing. But

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thanks to that, I do know we can go. You're

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spot on. But

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anyway, it's the name of the song that you want. Number

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two has got a blank at the moment.

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But it may come to us. And

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the third one is Talk Talk. Bye,

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Talk Talk. So we think that

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we're moving towards Shout by

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Tears for Fears. Shout,

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shout, let us all out. So

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I think we're starting off with a whisper.

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Going through something to a talk. And then

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a shout. quite sure

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about the murmur. Or

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the sort of musical equivalent of a murmur. It's

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from a madame butterfly,

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Pacini, and

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it's sung by the chorus. Well,

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I say sung, but there

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is another word for that. Murmur.

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Hum. It is

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the humming chorus. I remember that in the

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butterfly. But you did really

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well, actually, because you listened to whispering grass

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in the ink spots, the humming chorus, the

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madame butterfly, and talk, talk, by talk, talk.

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And you correctly identified that the tears

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for fear song that you might expect

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to hear next is a shunt.

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So all these pieces referred to

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human sound or speech in roughly

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increasing volume. So whispering, humming,

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talking, shouting. And

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I would say five out of six for

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that. So well done. OK,

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question for Northern Ireland and

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Graham Bingham in Brisbane in

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Australia kindly emailed this idea

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to us at

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rbqatbbc.co.uk as you can too,

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if you've got an idea

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for a question that's been

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fermenting in your mind. And

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no, that is not a clue to the theme

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of Graham's question. It

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is, if the following make a

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sequence, the father of the living

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dead, a cinematic

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pioneer, a monolithic

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sci-fi author, a big

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deal in a white house, and

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the Swazi companion of I,

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which Arthurian brothers would

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come next. So if the following make a sequence,

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father of the living dead, cinematic

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pioneer, monolithic sci-fi author,

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a big deal in a white

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house, and the Swazi companion of

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I, which Arthurian brothers would come

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next. So we

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think that the sequence that we're looking for is

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quite simply the alphabet. and

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we're going to start at the beginning. Well, Patty is going

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to start at the beginning. Actually,

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you know what? We might start at the end

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just to give the Swazi companion

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his due because the Swazi companion of A'i,

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that would be referring to Wuthnall and A'i.

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And I think his real name is

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Richard Grant Esterhysen, which is sort of

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not a Swazi language, but he goes

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by Richard E. Grant. And

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now initially when we saw Grant down, as we were

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thinking, oh, there could be a few presidents in here

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and everything, but there was one, but not where we

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thought it was, because the big

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deal in the White House is Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

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Franklin D. Roosevelt. Then

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the monolithic sci-fi office, so the monolith referring

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to the big stone at the start of

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2001, a space odyssey, we're hoping would be

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Arthur C. Clarke. And

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the cinematic pioneer would be Louis

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B. Mayer. And then, well,

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the father of the living dead, we're thinking about A. Lincoln

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for a while, but we're thinking

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maybe George A. Romero. And

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so, yeah, this concludes our alphabet. So

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that, I think the only thing we haven't discussed then is,

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so we've got A, B, C, D, E, which

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Arthurian brothers would come next. So we think

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it's F. So we think it's Gallahad and

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Fancilat. It's the best that we've

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done. Or possibly somebody that wrote

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about Arthurian legends and it's F. I can think

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of a few Williams, William F. Suffling, William G.

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Stewart, any of those? Well,

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I think of Camelot. Maybe

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in that one. Oh, John F. Kennedy? Oh. Exactly.

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And his brother, Bobbie. John F.

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Kennedy, well, and yeah, Robert.

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R.F. Kennedy, yeah. Yeah, so

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it was John Fitzgerald and Robert

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Francis. And of course, the

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Kennedys were known as the 20th

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century Camelot. So yeah, so do

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you just want, just to recap, you're quite

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right, this is all, the answer is all about middle

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initials. So the clues give us

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in order, George A.

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Romero. Louis B. Mayer. Arthur

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C. Clarke. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Richard E.

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Grant. And J.F.K.

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or R.F.K. That's correct.

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We actually had, on the cinematic pioneer, we

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actually had Seth will be the

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mill. But

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I think I can give you this one because

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essentially you got the answer right so it doesn't

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really matter and they were indeed both cinematic pioneers.

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So I'm going to give you five out of six because

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I had to give you a wee bit of help on

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Camelot. And I should just also

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just say for those who are wondering

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about the Swazi reference Richard E Grant

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was born and brought up in Swaziland.

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Okay, Scotland.

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If a Central African

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rebel movement bypasses Crawley

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and this piece of paper would

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take you to London from here

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why might you sing

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about the number 8.124?

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So if a Central African

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rebel movement bypasses Crawley and

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this piece of paper would take you to

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London from here why might

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you sing about the number 8.124?

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I think

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it's the M23 that passes

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Crawley and that's ringing

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vague bells with one

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of the African rebel movements but

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other than that I'm a bit stuck. Well

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you're right.

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M23 is not only a Crawley bypass to pass

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the route from London to Brighton and it

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is also an African rebel movement. So

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let's move to the next bit of

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the question and this piece of paper

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would take you to London from

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here and for

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the benefit of the listeners we

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are not far from Bristol. So

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that would be the M4 going

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to Bristol. This piece of

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paper? A4. Ah yes.

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Slow. Yes, our questions are printed on

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a piece of A4 paper. A4

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would take a step. The A4 is indeed the

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road that runs from London to Bristol and then

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you're looking for a song by the

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same logic although on

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the other side the Atlantic. Route

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66. It is indeed route 66

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and how did you get there? Because

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the clue is why would you sing about

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the number 8.124? Put your mouth

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spraying on there. 8.124 is the

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square root of 66. Oh, yeah the point being

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that a mathematician would describe

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that number as route 66 but R-O-O-T. I

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did give you the

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answer when I said route 66.

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You did get the answer.

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It's just the way you got there but then

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we are talking about roads. But you you I

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think you cleverly navigated your way

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through that question. I'm

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going to give you four out of six

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for that. And

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I just just to recap the

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M23 is not only the Crawley

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bypass it is a rebel

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movement which originated in Rwanda and

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it's short for March 23rd or

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Movement du Valphoye mouth commemorating

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the date on which its political wing signed peace

17:11

accords with the government of the Democratic Republic of

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Congo and of course you've got the the A4

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running from London to Bristol and it's also the

17:18

size piece of paper on which our questions are

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printed. Okay so

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let's go to Northern Ireland

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for question six. Time

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for music and coincidentally after

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a question about Crawley this

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idea comes from Robert Crawley who says

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he discovered RBQ last year and found

17:36

it was a great way of distracting

17:38

himself from his university exams. Well Robert

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I hope you passed and didn't get

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too distracted. Okay

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you're going to hear four bits of music

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and the question that I want you to

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answer is why might the band

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behind the fourth song perform

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any or all of

17:59

the other three pieces. Okay,

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so you had four pieces of

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music. Why might the band behind

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that fourth song perform any

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or all of the other three pieces?

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Well, I hope Robert did better in his exams

18:50

than we've done on this. Well, let's go with

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what we know. The second

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track was Vienna by

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Ultravox, maybe the most famous

18:59

number two song of all time. Then

19:02

one after that was Budapest

19:04

by George Ezra. So we're

19:06

certainly in central Europe. I

19:08

was kind of hoping that the fourth would

19:11

be Franz Ferdinand, kind of a Austro-Hungarian connection

19:13

there. Well, the first one,

19:15

it was a classical piece

19:17

and it sounded quite

19:19

sprightly. I mean, I was

19:21

wondering, was it like Schmetna, like Mavlast or something like

19:23

that from the Czech, instead of the Czech symphonic, something

19:27

that invokes Prague or something like that

19:29

maybe? Well, you actually write with Ultravox's

19:31

Vienna and George Ezra's Budapest, but the

19:33

first piece of music actually, you've got

19:36

to move out of central Europe now.

19:38

It's a symphony

19:41

by an English composer from the first half of

19:43

the 20th century. British?

19:46

Not Britain. Are rivers or Danube

19:48

anything to do with it? No.

19:52

Okay, capital cities? Yes.

19:55

So the band in the fourth song? Yes.

19:58

The fourth song is? I just knew that the

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ceiling was happening with the capital city. Exactly.

20:04

So is it London? It is. Is

20:07

the London Symphony by? Heiden

20:10

to the London Symphony. You said

20:12

it was a British composer

20:15

as well. Vaughan Williams. It

20:17

is indeed Vaughan Williams. Well

20:20

done. So you heard

20:22

Vaughan Williams' London Symphony, followed by

20:24

Altra Vox's Vienna, George Ezra's Budapest,

20:27

and that fourth piece of music was Capital

20:29

Cities, and the track was

20:31

Safe and Sound. So I should say that

20:34

I've also lived in all three of those cities, so

20:36

a bit of a personal ring to

20:38

this question. I

20:42

think I'm going to give you four out of six for

20:44

that, actually. Yeah. Okay.

20:48

Scotland, question seven. If Denzel

20:52

of the Netherlands teamed up

20:54

with gorgeous George, and

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Rachel's sometime boyfriend joined

20:59

forces with the writer of Plastic

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Jesus, where would you find them

21:03

all? If Denzel of the

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Netherlands teamed up with gorgeous George, and

21:08

Rachel's sometime boyfriend joined forces with the

21:10

writer of Plastic Jesus, where would you

21:12

find them all? Well, we've

21:15

lived a little bit farther north from Crawley, and

21:17

I have this horrible image of her

21:20

green bodysuit in

21:22

my head now, which is

21:24

the gorgeous George, which is gorgeous

21:27

George Galloway, and his infamous

21:29

teen, unsileventy big brother.

21:33

One teen never forgotten. You're

21:37

right. George Galloway. And

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Plastic Jesus, is this the marvellous song that

21:42

goes, I don't care

21:44

if it rains or freezes as long as I've got my

21:47

Plastic Jesus? That is indeed what. I

21:49

could sing it if you want, but... Yeah, go on. I

21:51

don't care if it rains or freezes as long as I've

21:53

got my Plastic Jesus sitting on the

21:55

dashboard of my car. Hallelujah! And

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so on. That's right, it was

22:01

a humorous ad spoof. Do

22:03

you remember who it was written by? Well,

22:05

we came to it indirectly. Yeah,

22:09

we got the Densil van Nevellens was one of

22:11

these things that was annoying for quite a long

22:13

time. But we actually

22:15

got to that through Rachel's

22:17

sometimes boyfriend, Ross. So

22:20

certainly we had Galloway, we had Ross. So we knew we were

22:22

going to be in Scotland. Then I

22:24

got Denzel Dumfries, who is the Dutch

22:27

football player. And

22:29

then that led us to Dumfries and Galloway. So we

22:31

knew where we were going with

22:33

the writer of Plastic Jesus. Because

22:36

Dumfries and Galloway is a Scottish council.

22:39

And also in Scotland we have Ross and Cromartie.

22:42

So we are presuming that the guy

22:44

who wrote Plastic Jesus was called something

22:46

Cromartie. Mr Cromartie. You've

22:48

got so much. So we have been

22:51

sent home on this last question. You

22:53

have indeed. Well

22:56

done. Well, you're absolutely right. The

22:59

connection when I asked you, where would you

23:01

find all these people? And you'd find them

23:03

in Scotland because each of the pair of

23:05

clues, there were two pairs, produces a compound

23:07

Scottish place named Dumfries and Galloway and Ross

23:09

and Cromartie. And just to fill you in,

23:11

it was indeed George Cromartie, an

23:14

American folk guitarist who wrote Plastic Jesus.

23:16

And thank you for that rendition, Val. Well,

23:19

I think that is six

23:21

out of six for Scotland. Well done.

23:25

Final question to Northern Ireland. And

23:27

this comes from Peter Green, who

23:29

lives in Belden in West Yorkshire.

23:33

Explain how the following come between 5

23:35

and 20. An

23:39

untouched domain, a

23:41

fast and furious action man, an

23:44

actor who portrayed a detective who

23:46

sucked. So explain how

23:48

the following came between 5 and

23:50

20, an untouched domain, a fast

23:52

and furious action man, and an

23:54

actor who portrayed a detective

23:57

who sucked. Well,

23:59

in a very easy way. meaningful and technical sense. Sixes

24:01

and sevens is between five and twenty and

24:03

that's kind of where we find ourselves a

24:05

bit. We know a few of

24:08

these things about the Fast and Furious action man we

24:10

are supposing is Vin Diesel and

24:13

then the actor who portrayed

24:15

a detective who sucked, I mean I

24:17

think that might be quite literally a

24:19

sort of a man with a fondness

24:22

for a confection, Telly Savalas, as Co-Jack.

24:24

You took the lilypops. Yes,

24:26

you're right about the character

24:29

but it's somebody new.

24:31

We've been chatting about that had

24:33

the sneaking suspicion that somebody knew

24:35

you had played Co-Jack. It's deliberately

24:37

misleading. So are we talking

24:39

about Roman numerals? We are. So

24:42

the five is in V and then the 20 is

24:44

in is XX so we're looking for things in between

24:46

that. Kind of, yes. Okay,

24:48

you're certainly on the right track. You're

24:50

on the right track with V as

24:53

the Roman numeral for five and

24:55

how that takes you to 20. So

24:58

the first two

25:01

letters of Vin Diesel's names are VI which would

25:04

be six. Yes.

25:06

So the oldest began with VI, the

25:09

other thing? They've all

25:11

got VI in them, yes. All

25:13

the answers have VI in them. Okay.

25:16

So an actor was VI in it.

25:20

Vince Vaughn played Co-Jack? You would be good casting, wouldn't

25:22

he? This actor

25:24

is African American. He also played

25:26

in pulp fiction where he was

25:29

quite a sort of intimidating presence.

25:32

Oh, well let's have a look at the

25:35

untouched domain for a minute. This is

25:37

VA as well. I mean is it like

25:39

a domain name? Yes. Virgin Islands or something?

25:41

Yes. Virgin Islands. Virgin

25:43

Islands, absolutely correct. Yeah. Okay, so

25:45

then an actor who was in

25:48

what section? John

25:51

Travolta is Vincent Vega but that's

25:53

the character. Yeah. How

25:55

about getting, because we still got a final bit of the

25:57

question, why would that take you to 20? Look

26:01

at what you've written down. So

26:03

you've got V, V-I, V-I-N, Covindiesel. It's

26:11

graduating, isn't it? V, V-I, V-I-N.

26:15

Is it 20 in a foreign language? Yes.

26:17

Vain. So Vain.

26:19

Vain, exactly. Vainty would be in French.

26:21

And Vain, how do you spell Vain

26:24

in French? V-A-N-G-T. V-A-N-G-T, exactly. So that

26:26

takes you there. So that you should

26:28

be able to deduce number

26:31

four from that. You'd think so, wouldn't you? So

26:33

he is V-A-N. Ving,

26:37

Ving, Vingramps. Vingramps,

26:39

exactly. Vingramps, who played Kojak

26:41

in a very short-lived

26:44

reboot and was also in Pulp Fiction.

26:46

So the clues take us from V,

26:48

the Roman numeral for five, to Vain, the French for

26:51

20, by an incremental

26:53

addition of letters. We

26:55

had V-I, the internet name for

26:57

the US Virgin Islands, hence the

26:59

untouched. And then we had Vin

27:01

Diesel, the action hero from Fast

27:03

and Furious. And

27:05

Vingramps, who played Kojak, finally

27:07

taking us to Vain, French

27:09

for 20. I

27:12

think I'm going to give you three out of six for that,

27:14

because I had to give you quite a

27:16

bit of help. But well done for

27:18

getting there in the end, because that was a very tricky

27:20

one from Peter Green. I'm going to resist

27:22

giving you the final scores in

27:24

French, but the tables have turned

27:26

in this round, because Scotland have

27:28

21 and Northern Ireland have 15.

27:31

But well done, everyone, because that was a tough

27:33

contest today. It is the Midlands and

27:35

the north of England's turn in the hot seats next time,

27:37

for which I hope you join us. And

27:40

I hope that you'll have a chance

27:42

to think about this question between now

27:44

and then in a spare moment or

27:46

two. And it is. Can you see

27:48

the value in connecting Elsie from a

27:50

Salford soap, a rapid head

27:53

movement, a baby marsupial

27:56

and a French flower? And that question will

27:58

be on our website all week. want

28:00

to remind yourself of it until next time

28:02

from all of us at Round Britain Quiz.

28:04

Goodbye.