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.
UPDATE: Carl has now provided the 2012 solutions although there's one question still unresolved.
2012
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?
Note: This appears to be a last-minute replacement for a question about Jimmy Savile, and the sheet has the original question and answer rather than the replacement.2013
Programme 1 (16/9/13)
Q2 Eleanor Thornton’s perch, some second rate entertainment and one well-versed in anthologising could lead you to unparalleled mental exercise. How?
Eleanor Thornton was the model for Rolls-Royce mascot - Silver Shadow? Her perch - grille? radiator? Or bonnet?
Second-rate entertainment - B-movie?
One well-versed in anthologising - Palgrave? Golden Treasury?
Unparalleled mental exercise - Perpendicular? Orthogonal? Skew? Lateral thinking?
2015
Programme 9 (14/12/15)
Q5 How can a reptile, a crab, some underwear and some British money help to keep you afloat?
Q8 What covert connection might there be between: one who, according to [Kipling], smote his bloomin' lyre; a German girl; one who presumed at Ujiji; and the diminutive preferred by the former Viscount Stansgate?
Codenames of Cambridge spies - Homer (Donald Maclean), Mädchen (Guy Burgess), Stanley (Kim Philby). The last ought to be Anthony Blunt but his codename was "Johnson", not "Tony" as the clue suggests.2017/18
Programme 10 (15/1/18)
Q2 In what situation might a hawk, a monkey and a mole all be likely to get the blame?
Suggestion: is it when there's an inside job? The mole is the informer, hawk = hawking the money or goods, monkey- the payment or the one doing the leg work, or tampering with the system. Or is it to do with finance. Financial crash?
[Check solution to Q8 if possible - who is the "pilot"?]
