On the JUSTtheTalk forum we're attempting to answer every Round Britain Quiz question (apart from the music questions) that's appeared on the website since 2012 when the BBC first started including them there. Answers to many of the quiz questions are available via recordings on YouTube or the BBC site, and answers to all the teasers are available on the BBC site. However there are over 400 questions to which answers aren't readily available. Carl Cooper, the producer of RBQ, has kindly provided me with the original notes for the 2021 and 2022 series, and hopes to supply the rest in due course. In the meantime, we're working through the rest and trying to solve as many as possible. This is a list of questions that are currently wholly or partly unsolved.
2012, programme 8 (22/10/12)
Q6 How could a strong wind, some rind and a ruler, when each paired with a horse, be said to be more recent successors to the mythological harriers of an ancient prince?
Suggestion: Are the harriers the Eumenides, pursuing Orestes?
Programme 9 (29/10/12)
Q2 Why could Martha Jane Canary, Lenin's would be assassin, and a police van, all provide alternative titles to a Tchaikovsky opera?
"Calamity Jane" and "Black Maria" are nicknames for the Queen of Spades. Lenin's would be assassin was Fanny Kaplan but nothing seems to link her to the playing card.
Q5 Who are the following, and whose faithful companions might they be? One sharing a middle name with James Joyce; another with unfortunate spots; a third sharing the name of a ventriloquist’s doll who was famously ‘educated’.
Teddy bears - Aloysius (Sebastian Flyte), Pudsey/My Naughty Little Sister (?), Archie (John Betjeman)
Programme 10 (5/11/12)
Q7 Why could you be forgiven for thinking a Labour Prime Minister, a Daphne du Maurier novel, and a Fred Astaire film, had caused a surprising amount of fuss?
