Unsolved Round Britain Quiz questions

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)

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?

Programme 11 (12/11/12)

Q6 What do the following have in common, and which one is an exception? A wild and colourful group of painters; a force in France commanded by French; a North African garrison; and a group whose balloon couldn't be popped?

Suggestions: fauvism (1), the Desert Rats? (3), the WWI British Expeditionary Force (2)

Programme 12 (19/11/12)

Q7 How does Evelyn Waugh come to be in the 20th century with only one of his early novels - and, for the other three, is once in the 19th century and twice in the 18th?

The works in question are Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief and A Handful of Dust. It was suggested that the answer might be to do with the origins of their titles: Decline and Fall is Gibbon, and Handful of Dust is Eliot, so the only 20th-century one. However Vile Bodies comes either from the book itself or from the Bible, and Black Mischief doesn't appear to be a quote.

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?

Programme 7 (28/10/13)

Q5 What links members of the fungal genus Phallus with an ecclesiastical dairy product, the audience knee deep in hazelnut shells at the Globe, and a fuss?

Stinkhorn, Stinking Bishop, ???, a stink.

Programme 8 (4/11/13)

Q6 If the far eastern one is a shopping area, the central one a good pay increase, the north-western one a wild expanse covered in turf, and the western one a large roof, what are they, and which town clerk made them his business?

Programme 10 (18/11/13)

Q2 What would happen if a lady of easy virtue, two theatrical accoutrements, a pair of fastening devices and a favourite haunt for lovers were to collapse?

Programme 12 (2/12/13)

Q7 One of these didn’t do the task for which it was designed: Sir William Stevenson, a Sanders detective, a Hair song and a hunter. Can you explain?

2014

Programme 3 (2/6/14)

Q7 Why might a toccata for organ, Father Mulcahy and the north wing of the Capitol all sound as if they have no sound?

Programme 4 (9/6/14)

Q6 Why would you need a bright light to see a polar show, understated cutlery, and an optical aid that neither stops nor goes?

Programme 7 (30/6/14)