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This is the BBC. Hello

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returning to our Cotswold Library today

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are the Midlands and the North

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of England teams playing the return

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fixture following the victory by the

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Midlands earlier in the series in

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which they got a perfect score

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24 out of 24. Frankie Franco

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and Stephen Maddock will be hoping

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to repeat that

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result. Welcome back to

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Stuart Baccone and Adele Garris from the

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North of England team. Good luck to

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all of you. We'll get started in

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a minute. We just have to hand

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out today's question papers to the panellists so

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they can get the measure of the task

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ahead and while we're doing

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that I'll give you the solution to the puzzle

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I set at the end of last week's contest

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and that question was can you

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see the value in connecting Elsie

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from a sulphured soap, a

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rapid head movement, a

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baby marsupial and a French

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flower. It's a question

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that might best see people of a certain age

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I suspect, maybe a greater age

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than most of us here because Elsie is clearly a

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tanner. A rapid

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head movement would be a bob,

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the marsupial is a joey

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and the flower is a florin

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and they're all names or nicknames

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for pre-decimal coins. There's more

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detail on that answer on our web pages

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if you want to have a look. So

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let's see if our teams have had time to

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spot anything of value in the their opening

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question today, Frankie and Stephen. Why

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don't you start us off, please,

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with this first question. Why

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would a breath freshening

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confectionery item, the

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object of Adrian Moll's affections,

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and a Beethoven piano sonata,

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be likely to please the

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prime minister? Why would a

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breath freshening confectionery item, the

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object of Adrian Moll's affections,

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and a Beethoven piano sonata,

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be likely to please the

2:30

prime minister? So

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we're going to start here with the object of

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Adrian Moll's affections. So of course, Adrian

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Moll being the fictional

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teenage diarist in

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the stories by Sue Townsend. And

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we believe his beloved was

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Pandora Brathwaite. That's

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right. We doesn't immediately suggest any reason

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why that would please

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the prime minister, the

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current prime minister, I assume we're talking about

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Mr. Sinek. The Beethoven

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piano sonata, so there's a few that

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have got names, he wrote 32 of

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them, but there's a few that got

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nicknames, whether added by him or by

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some later, publicist or publisher. I

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mean, most famously, the moonlight sonata. Not

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moonlight, okay. There's also a

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tempest. There's

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a patatique. There's

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an apassionata. Okay,

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apassionata. Okay. Well,

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apassionata was a name of the book by Julie Cooper.

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It was, yeah. As is Pandora. Okay.

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So you're not a prime minister, a fan of Julie Cooper.

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Yeah, go to the breath freshening,

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confectionary, I think. Okay, so, another

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Julie Cooper, and we've got

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riders. Did

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she write one called James? Polo, polo men. Yeah,

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polo. So apassionata,

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polo, Pandora. They're

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all Julie Cooper titles that you've rightly identified.

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He's a big fan. Rishi Sunak revealed

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recently that he's been known to curl

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up with a Jilly Cooper novel as

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a way of relaxing and These are

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all titles from her famous series of

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Bonk Busters the Rocha Chronicles Yes,

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I'm gonna give you four out

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of six because you needed a little

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bit of help on getting the right Beethoven

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pianos not but well done on

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that Okay north

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of England The listener David

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brain sent us several questions for consideration this

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year and this is the one that we

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liked best why might

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racing to the Isle of Man help

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you to get a pint that's been

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improved a lascivious

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look that results in Correspondence

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or a visionary who writes quiz

4:47

questions. Let me repeat that Why

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might racing to the Isle of

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Man help you to get a

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pint that's been improved a lascivious

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look? That results in

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correspondence or a visionary

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who writes quiz questions This

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is a sort of archetypal The

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racing on the Isle of Man are the

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famous TT races yeah, but for I believe

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time tile I think I don't know a

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tourist trophy a motorbike race It's exactly but

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the other famous TT race is on the

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Isle of Man. That's why giving us the

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letters TT So if you

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put TT into various things

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you get one after the other

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a pint That's being improved.

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So beer with two

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teases better The lascivious

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look is a leer In

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the middle to get a letter for the correspondence and

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a visionary who writes quiz questions is a

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seer With TT

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in the middle who becomes a setter Absolutely,

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right and it is a Catholic RBQ question

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well six out of six off

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to a strong start north

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of England Okay,

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Midlands This is

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a music question which

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entrapped family would

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particularly enjoy this sequence

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and what might be

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their contribution. This

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is a music question which would particularly

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enjoy this sequence and what might be

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their contribution. So

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the first clip we heard there was Abba with the song So Long. And

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the second was Haydn's Symphony No. 45

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which is known as the Farewell Symphony because

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he was trying to impress upon his boss,

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the Prince of Esterhazy, that the orchestra quite liked to

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go home for the summer to Vienna. Anyway,

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the court was stuck in the wrong place for a

7:38

long time. So he writes a symphony in which in

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the last movement you get fewer and fewer musicians on

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stage. And the musicians just blow out their candles, lead

7:44

the stage. So

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we've had

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so long and farewell and that leads

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us onto the theme from Altheda's Aim

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Pet, the Clement and

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La Fronne show from the 80s. All

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Right, which I believe was by Chas and Dave.

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It's Joe Fagan. Yeah,

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and it was obviously the series

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is about a group of British builders going

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to work in Germany. And then the

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last song was the song that the Spice Girls

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wrote, I think when

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Jerry left, when Ginger Spice quit the

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group sharing my great obviously 90s

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pop knowledge here. They sing Goodbye

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My Friend but the song is called Goodbye.

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Yeah, it was the last of their three

8:28

consecutive Christmas number ones. So

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that gives us so long farewell,

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Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye. So the

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family that would enjoy that is of course the

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Pontrap family from The Sound of Music and

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their contribution would be to sing a song all about it.

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Absolutely right. The clues give us the refrain

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of the song so long farewell, Auf Wiedersehen

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Goodbye. Well, that is a six out of

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six for the Midlands. Well done. North

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of England question four. Dr. Anthony

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Edwards in Northampton says hearing his friend

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Peter Watson getting a question on RBQ

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last year has spurred him on. So

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let's see if we can even things out in

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what has clearly been a keen local rivalry. And

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here is his question. If

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fifth place might make you

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think of a rifle, fourth

9:15

place is a Victorian singer in

9:17

search of something. Third

9:19

place gave us the iron heel and

9:23

second place sounds like the voice

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of Radiohead. Why

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would first place go to a sort of

9:29

bookstand? So if this place makes you think

9:31

of a rifle, fourth

9:33

place is a Victorian

9:35

singer in search of

9:38

something. Third place

9:40

gave us the iron heel and second

9:43

place sounds like the voice of

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Radiohead. Why would first place go

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to a sort of bookstand? Are

9:50

the places places

9:53

for example Winchester makes

9:55

me think of a rifle. Winchester is a rifle

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in that place. The

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said: the single radio head is Thom

10:02

Yorke i'm assuming the sound like base

10:04

because he felt his name with an

10:07

E. so it's not exactly same spell.

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Yes, The Alliance Yes! And so we

10:11

have Winston York and. The Victorian

10:14

singer. we think we know who

10:16

it should be. It's the person

10:18

who sang the last cord. Is

10:20

it? Never was. Only

10:22

so emotional Yasushi the last call our I

10:24

ask them as. And and victorious not

10:27

necessarily a historical reference, could be

10:29

a geographical. and that is a

10:31

geographical. And ah, So

10:34

it would be victorious in

10:36

Australia? Yes, right? Okay, Spam.

10:40

And were worried about the bookstand

10:42

as well. It's

10:44

it's it's a kind of low wouldn't stand

10:46

sometimes you get it will cost as which

10:48

he keeps receipt music and so. On. The

10:52

grading system here with Winston your these

10:54

are bishoprics on a date? I thought

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they might be. Yeah they are. So

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in that case then our plan is

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can to bring. In the

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as soon as they want this now and and

11:04

then turn would the eye and he'll give us

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Durham. Know.

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Oh Judith during his the singer

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using were obe yes okay the

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sounders fc seek Caesar cipher I

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am as so yes So in

11:19

that case then we need filling

11:21

the final father bishoprics which is

11:23

the eye and his own and

11:26

he'll. Have to add over

11:28

bishoprics have been lit, sealed, He.

11:31

Leave. My. Favorite to

11:33

seem to. Westminster.

11:38

London? Yes, this for the. And

11:41

at early on he is that Jutland

11:43

upset, clumsy and he knows it is.

11:45

Yeah, see I guess. Subject. Long as

11:47

Okay so. You're not. Besides as

11:50

an order. yes, France. actually,

11:52

Winchester Winchester insists place. Durham.

11:55

insert or something one of the seekers

11:57

and forth third bishop of london the

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Iron Heel after Jack

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London, Second York, but

12:05

spelt without the E. And

12:07

I had no idea that a Canterbury

12:10

was one of those trolley things for a couple of

12:12

years. But you do now. I do now. Should

12:15

you ever want a small moving bookshelf? That's

12:18

what I want. Congratulations,

12:20

because you've got there in

12:22

the end and I'm going to give you

12:24

four out of six for managing to rank

12:26

the bishops of the UK in ascending order

12:29

from Winchester, to Durham, London, York and Canterbury.

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Very good. So here we are

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at half time and the two teams are

12:36

neck and neck. Question

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five to the Midlands. Stephen and

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Frankie, this question has been devised

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by listener Charlie Wakeley. Why

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could the progenitors of

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an unusually arched handbag

12:51

and a poetic account of a seat

12:53

of learning for women find

12:56

common cause in a railway

12:58

station bookshop? Why

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could the progenitors of an

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unusually arched handbag and

13:05

a poetic account of a seat

13:07

of learning for women find common

13:09

cause in a railway station bookshop?

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Well, I think our way in here is going

13:14

to be we're going to start with the last bit with

13:17

the railway station bookshop. I'm

13:19

wondering whether this is to do with

13:21

penguin books. When Alan

13:23

Lane set up penguin books

13:25

in the what, 20s or 30s, I think it

13:27

was because he was frustrated at not

13:30

being able to find an affordable

13:32

book at a railway station bookshop.

13:34

No, we're on the wrong track. Okay,

13:36

the wrong track is to use a railway

13:38

term. For an arched

13:40

handbag, obviously the most famous handbag in literature

13:42

is the one that contains

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Jack Worthing, left by

13:47

Lady Bracknell, found by Lady Bracknell and

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it's arched because the sort

13:51

of tradition of saying, I've got it,

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a handbag. So,

13:57

okay, so the progenitors. Well

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the progenitor of that is kind of Oscar Wilde

14:03

really, but that's maybe not what we need. It

14:06

is what we need, Oscar Wilde. Wilde

14:10

and the pretensions of the aesthetic movement

14:12

in the 70s and 80s England were

14:16

parodied by

14:20

who? Because

14:22

that will lead you to the next two clues. Not

14:25

go, it's too late for the ones I think. No,

14:27

it's not too late for the ones I think. So,

14:32

oh, well, Princess Ida

14:35

is a, it's sort of about the monstrous

14:37

regiment of women kind of thing. It's

14:40

a feminocracy and it's a satire

14:42

on, I thought on

14:44

politics, but maybe it is on Oscar Wilde as

14:46

well. Well you're looking for a poetic account of

14:48

a seat of learning for women. Right. So

14:51

they are parodying something by,

14:53

I don't know,

14:56

is it Tennyson or someone? No. Yes.

14:59

So they, this is right, this is a parody

15:02

of Lord Tennyson's poem,

15:04

The Lady of Shallot, The Princess. The

15:06

Princess, okay. In his poem,

15:08

The Princess conserves the creation of a women's

15:10

university which is infiltrated by men posing as

15:13

women so they can woo the objects of

15:15

their affections. So you've

15:17

got Oscar Wilde being parodied and you've

15:19

got Lord Tennyson being parodied. So

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the progenitors in each case are Oscar Wilde and

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Alfred Lord Tennyson. Yes. So

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they'd be finding common cause in

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a railway station bookshop. Well

15:31

there is perhaps a railway station bookshop

15:33

called Oscar and Alfred. I

15:35

have to say this bookseller still exists. Oh,

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W.H. Smith. And

15:41

yes, that's right. Can

15:43

you think in which way they were,

15:46

how W.H. Smith might have been parodied?

15:52

In another literary work? No, well think

15:54

back to your two previous answers because

15:57

it's connected to that. Okay. WH

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Smith also parodied in a Gilbert

16:02

and Sullivan work. Can you name

16:04

that? OK. Well,

16:07

it's not the micardo. It's

16:09

not the Pirates of Pentance. We

16:12

have to keep going through your Rolodex and Gilbert

16:14

and Oliver. Not the sorcerer. Not

16:16

the Omen of the Guard. Roddy call. Roddy

16:19

call? It's really a fantastic move. I

16:22

think I'm probably going to have to give you this one. HMS

16:26

Pinnacle? Yes. HMS

16:28

Pinnacle? Yeah. Oh, OK. Yes,

16:30

he does it. So the Victorian

16:32

bookseller, WH Smith, who is a

16:34

spectacularly unqualified First Lord of the

16:37

admirals. Yes. So like the character whose

16:39

name is going to come to me,

16:43

who sings about, I

16:46

polished up the handle so carefully that

16:48

now I'm the ruler of the Queen's

16:50

Navy. That's right. The ruler of the

16:52

Queen's Navy was. And that was a

16:54

point of our people being over promoted.

16:56

And this is the fact that Oscar Wilde,

16:59

Alfred Lord Tennyson, and the

17:01

Victorian bookseller, WH Smith, were

17:04

all parodied in

17:06

works by Gilbert and Sullivan.

17:08

And Oscar Wilde was parodied

17:10

in the opressor Patience or

17:13

Bunthorn's Bride. And then

17:15

you had Princess Ida or Castle

17:17

Adament. That's why

17:20

Tennyson's poem was parodied. And then

17:22

finally, HMS Pinnacle. Now, I think

17:24

probably two out

17:27

of six, because I had to give you so much

17:29

help. A real twist of that

17:31

one. OK, question six for the North of

17:33

England. And this is

17:35

a suggestion from the listener Jill Butler,

17:37

who lives in Sleaford in Lincolnshire. And

17:40

it has some music attached.

17:43

How might these musicians add

17:45

color to the lives of

17:47

Miss Sharp's school principal, a

17:50

faithless naval officer, and a man

17:52

who set investigations in motion in

17:55

the mid-19th century? And

17:57

here's the music. Okay,

18:13

so that was the music. Here's the

18:15

question again. How might those musicians add

18:17

colour to the lives of

18:19

Miss Sharpe's school principal, a faithless

18:21

naval officer and a man who

18:24

set investigations in motion in the

18:26

mid-19th century? Any ideas?

18:31

I don't recognise the music. That is

18:33

a piece of music, thanks to me, like

18:35

some, is it some

18:38

kind of 60s beat, Mersey

18:40

Beatish type thing? And is

18:43

there a colour? Yeah, more

18:45

Midlands, I'd say. Yeah. Oh,

18:47

okay. Briefly famous pop

18:49

band from the 60s from the Midlands with

18:52

a colour in their name. Well, if it was a colour, the one that leads to

18:54

the man is the Moody Blues. No, I

18:56

thought they weren't briefly famous, were they? It's

18:59

a colour pink. Why don't

19:01

you go to Miss Sharpe's school

19:03

principal? Well, we would if we knew.

19:05

Well, if we knew Miss Sharpe's school principal, then

19:07

we'd be able to get a job at Shambhannity Fair.

19:09

Yeah, I cannot remember the name. Do

19:11

you remember the academy she went to? Oh,

19:14

yes. It's

19:16

Pinkerton's. Yeah, and the investigation is

19:19

Pinkerton's. And the investigation is the

19:21

Pinkerton Detective Agency. The

19:24

Faceless Naval Officer. Oh, Faceless?

19:26

Well, one would assume now we're thinking of someone called Pink. Or

19:31

you've had two Pinkerton's. Oh, Pinkerton. Well,

19:34

is he Faceless? Was he involved in famously

19:36

the mutiny on the boat? No,

19:39

more Faceless to his beloved in a

19:43

tragic... Oh, of course

19:45

he's the American sailor in Madame Butterfly. Oh, in

19:47

Madame Butterfly. Yes, exactly. So these are all Pinkertons?

19:51

So they're all Pinkertons? Yes. Oh, and

19:53

that group, which are very obscure people,

19:55

are called Pinkertons. Look at them. Sweet

19:59

Sharpe. Pinkerton's...

20:01

Right, you're getting more

20:03

of on here. Yeah. PNC

20:06

60 psychedelic names. Pinkerton's Sweet

20:08

Shopper. Sometimes when you

20:10

buy sweets, you buy... PNC's Assorted.

20:12

Assorted. PNC's Assorted Colours. Yes! Oh,

20:15

you got there. You're absolutely right. We

20:18

heard a

20:20

piece of music, Mirror Mirror, from

20:22

Pinkerton's Assorted Colours. It was a

20:24

top turn hit. In

20:30

1966, which brought to

20:32

mind Miss Barbara Pinkerton, who's Academy

20:34

for Young Ladies on Chiswick Mall,

20:36

features in the opening chapter of

20:38

Black Lives Matter Fair. And

20:41

then we've got Lieutenant Pinkerton facelessly

20:43

abandoning Madame Butterfly in Pacini's opera,

20:45

and Alan Pinkerton, co-founder of the

20:48

Kingston Detective Agency in the 1850s.

20:52

So well done for getting there. I'm

20:54

going to give you a four out

20:56

of six for that. Question

21:00

seven to the Midlands, and the listener

21:02

Keith Skuls has suggested this. Why

21:05

might a vain, glorious, poetic King

21:07

of Kings, the voice

21:10

of Yoda, an obscenity

21:12

trial, an Argentine

21:14

midfielder and manager, and

21:16

the leader of a musical occult

21:18

meeting, lead you to

21:21

the real and lyrical origins of some

21:23

working men? Why

21:25

might a vain, glorious, poetic King of Kings,

21:28

the voice of Yoda, an

21:30

obscenity trial, an Argentine

21:33

midfielder and manager, and

21:35

the leader of a musical occult meeting,

21:37

lead you to the real and lyrical

21:39

origins of some working

21:41

men? So taking

21:44

these in order, the vain, glorious,

21:46

poetic King of Kings, we

21:48

think is Ozymandias in the poem by

21:51

Shelley, and famously used as the slightly,

21:53

unless you know the poem, slightly cryptic

21:55

title of I think one

21:57

of the last episodes of Breaking Bad.

22:00

kind of regarded as one of the greatest hours of

22:02

television ever made. So

22:05

the voice of Yoda, so Yoda of course

22:07

being the sort of spiritual guru to the

22:09

Jedi's in the Star Wars films, so

22:12

the voice of Yoda would be Frank

22:14

Oz or the voice

22:17

of Yoda he is, I'd

22:20

say. Also the voice of Miss Piggy

22:23

I believe in the Muppet Frank Oz. Then

22:26

the obscenity trial, this was a famous

22:28

caucasian I think the 60s called the

22:31

Oz trial. It was 1971 but

22:33

you're close. I think Oz was a magazine

22:35

I think and it was to do with

22:37

the obscene publications act and it was one

22:39

of those like the Lady Chatterley trial one

22:41

of the things that eventually led to the

22:43

abolition of censorship in the UK and the

22:46

abandonment of the Lord Chamberlain being able

22:48

to stop it. The editors of the

22:51

three of them of an underground

22:53

magazine Oz, Richard Neville, Felix Dennis

22:55

and Jim Anderson were tried to

22:57

for a conspiracy to corrupt public

22:59

morals. The Argentine midfielder

23:01

and manager is Osvaldo

23:03

Ardiles known as Ozzy who

23:06

won the World Cup, football

23:08

World Cup with Argentina in 1978 and

23:11

played for and briefly managed Tottenham Hotspur

23:14

and leader of a musical occult

23:16

meeting so our occult meeting here

23:18

being Black Sabbath we

23:20

are dealing with John Osborne

23:22

better known as Ozzy. Now

23:25

immortalized, Birmingham's greatest now immortalized in

23:27

an enormous bull in New Street

23:29

Station so people come and sort

23:31

of fondly have their photo taken

23:33

with Ozzy when they pass through

23:35

Birmingham. That's alright so how would that

23:37

lead you to the real and lyrical

23:39

origins of some working men? So

23:42

they would all take you to the land of Oz

23:44

but not the one invented by

23:47

Frank L Bourn the country Australia

23:49

so the the working men are

23:51

the Australian group men at work

23:53

whose most famous song is called

23:56

Down Under and was famously

23:58

also ended up in court a few years

24:00

ago because they use a small bit

24:02

on a flute or a pipe of

24:04

some kind. They quote Kookaburra

24:06

Sings and it sits in the old oak

24:08

tree which they thought was a folk song

24:11

but the two elderly schoolteacher ladies who had

24:13

composed this song were very clear

24:15

that it was not a folk song like Happy Birthday and

24:17

took men at work to court and now get a very nice

24:19

little side earnings from having

24:21

done so. Maybe I congratulate you

24:24

both on some excellent trivia in

24:26

your answers but you're absolutely right.

24:29

They are all in various forms, Oz or

24:31

Ozzies and as such they would lead you

24:33

down under which was the title and refrain

24:35

of the hit song by the Australian rock

24:37

band Men at Work and that is six

24:39

out of six. Well done. Final

24:44

question for the North of England and

24:46

this is from Peter Green in Belden

24:48

in West Yorkshire and be warned it

24:50

is fiendish. Scott

24:53

would know how a

24:55

high ranking mafioso and

24:58

a high ranking ottoman leader might

25:00

come together with a pseudonymous writer

25:02

killed by a sniper in the

25:05

First World War to form the

25:07

subject of a Peter Blake canvas.

25:11

Do you? Scott

25:13

would know how a high ranking

25:15

mafioso and a high ranking ottoman

25:18

leader might come together with a

25:20

pseudonymous writer killed by a sniper

25:22

in the First World War to

25:25

form the subject of a Peter

25:27

Blake canvas. So do you? In other

25:29

words, do you know? Well,

25:33

if you mention Peter Blake, the thing that

25:35

leaps to mind is the cover of Sergeant Pepper. Yes.

25:39

It's not that. I'm going to steer

25:41

you away from that

25:43

particular canvas. Yeah. The

25:45

pseudonymous writer killed by a sniper

25:47

in the First World War is

25:50

Sharkey. Yes. Hexi-human-row. Correct.

25:52

To give him his real name. And

25:55

the high ranking mafioso is a

25:58

Don? Yes. That's right. So

26:01

we have Dodd and Saki, the Ottoman

26:04

leader is a bit trickier. Sultan?

26:07

No, it's not that. Okay.

26:11

But you're on the right track. I

26:14

want to say... Scott... Would Scott...

26:17

No, no. To

26:19

know... Is it? Scottish for

26:21

no. Okay. Ken! I

26:25

see. Okay. Oh, okay. Is

26:27

this Kendo Nagasaki? Yes. The

26:30

masked wrestler who's the subject of the

26:32

Peter Blake painting. Brilliant. That is... Can

26:35

I say that? That is brilliant. I

26:37

wonder when you would get that. No! That's

26:40

absolutely right. All of these clues come

26:42

together to form the name of the

26:44

wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, with whom the British

26:46

pop artist Peter Blake had a long

26:49

standing obsession. He did, yes. Yeah, eventually

26:51

painting his portrait. And so

26:53

a Scottish person would... Ken would know a

26:55

high ranking rapier is in the dawn, and

26:57

a high ranking Ottoman is in Arga, and

26:59

then you have Saki, the writer...

27:01

Arga. The Arga Khan.

27:03

Yes. Arga, yes. I

27:05

was going to give you... I was going to say, oh, this

27:08

is a high ranking Ottoman also. Also a

27:10

Southern. Much beloved by the British

27:12

middle classes. Well, I think

27:14

that was pretty impressive, but you did need a bit

27:16

of help, so I'm going to give you four out

27:19

of six. So well done

27:21

for wrestling with those questions, everyone.

27:23

It was a commendable performance all round,

27:25

and it is a draw. 18

27:28

points each. Both

27:30

of these pairs have one more fixture left

27:32

in the current series. It's getting very exciting.

27:34

I hope you can join

27:36

us next time when I will have the

27:39

answer to this little puzzle, which might

27:41

occupy your mind in the intervening days. It

27:43

is. What's the stable

27:45

diet common to toothpaste or powder,

27:48

a sweet-rooted plant of

27:50

the bean family, one

27:52

of the seven deadly sins, and a

27:54

dragon with the head of a rooster?

27:57

And the question is on our Web pages in case you want to

27:59

look... it again. But until next time,

28:01

from all of us here at

28:03

RBQ, goodbye.