Also Rans v Mercians

Series 19, Episode 26

Jump To: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Round 1

𓇌 Two Reeds

Internal angles: ~55.9° ~63.1° ~62.6°

Perimeter: ~4871 km

Clue 2

Area: ~1,146,796 km²

Clue 3

Type: Scalene Spherical

Clue 4

Properties of the Bermuda Triangle

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Nagin auter pajais

La nazione confinante a sud, l’Italia

Clue 2

Ihre Nachbarn im Norden (Deutschland), und im Osten, Österreich und Liechtenstein

Clue 3

Sa voisine à l’ouest, la France

Clue 4

Swiss official languages

Romansh, Italian, German, French

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Palindrome songs

2112 by Rush, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by the Crash Test Dummies, Bob by Weird Al Yankovic, SOS by Mamma Mia

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Heard daily on BBC Radio 4

God Save The King, Sailing By (the shipping forecast), the pips, the chimes.

Answer

𓈗 Water

Fled, not surrendered

A gesture of leadership, not a stomach ulcer

Clue 2

Average height, not short

Clue 3

He didn’t refuse his wife’s bedroom advances

Clue 4

Napoleonic misconceptions

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Eddie Murphy in “Coming to America”

Johnny Rotten at the Winterland Ballroom

Clue 2

Barack Obama at the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Clue 3

Alex Turner after Arctic Monkeys won a BRIT

Clue 4

Mic drops

Answer

Round 2

𓇌 Two Reeds

Anne Hyde

Anne Hyde

Clue 2

Victoria of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld

Clue 3

?

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Mothers of queens regnant

Answer

𓃭 Lion

4th: Andrea Ghez

3rd: Donna Strickland

Clue 2

2nd: Maria Goeppert Mayer

Clue 3

?

1st: Marie Curie

Women who have won the Nobel Physics Prize

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

5: 2003, 2007, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021

4: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2020

Clue 2

3: 2001, 2005, 2010

Clue 3

?

2: 2000

Number of Roman numerals in the year

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Scarlett O’Hara, at the start of “Gone with the Wind”

Jo March, at the start of “Little Women”

Clue 2

Harry Potter, in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"

Age of teen protagonist. 16, 15, 14, 13.

Answer

𓈗 Water

?

(e.g.) Downtown by Petula Clark

LEFT of Centre by Suzanne Vega, UP on the Roof by The Drifters, RIGHT, Said Fred by Bernard Cribbins, DOWNtown by Petula Clark

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Red snooker ball being potted

Cube number scores. 64, 27, 8, 1.

Answer

Round 3

𓃭 Lion

Cheese

Janes

Clapman

Isle

Pythons with second letter changed

Answer

Whey

Lassi

Ghee

Cream

Dairy products

Answer

House

Butter

Sponge

Dragon

___fly

Answer

Taps

Dead Man Walking

The Game

Milk

Sean Penn films

Answer

𓈗 Water

First Wives

Breakfast

Cotton

Baby-Sitters

The ____ Club films

Answer

Satin

Rayan

Creek

Tunic

Ancient languages with first letter changed

Answer

Strings

Felt

Breaker

Land

Heart____

Answer

Leather

Hemp

Chiffon

Silk

Materials

Answer

Round 4

Four rhyming words and what they are

WRW CKN DT WN

WARWICK AND TOWN

YRC KN DSH KSP RNJS TR

YORICK AND SHAKESPEAREAN JESTER

DRCN DRC HTCT RLST YL

DORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

RCN DFR STN MFGL DF NGR

AURIC AND FIRST NAME OF GOLDFINGER

Phrases containing parts of a bicycle

BC KNT HSD DL

BACK IN THE SADDLE

HN DL BRM STC H

HANDLEBAR MOUSTACHE

P TT HPDL TTH M TL

PUT THE PEDAL TO THE METAL

TH TR NGSB LL

THAT RINGS A BELL

First, second, third and fourth lines of different famous poems

TW SBR LLGN DT HSLT HYT VS

'TWAS BRILLIG, AND THE SLITHY TOVES

TH TFL TSNH GHRV LSN DHLLS

THAT FLOATS ON HIGH O'ER VALES AND HILLS

THN GSF LLP RTTHC NT RCN NTH LD

THINGS FALL APART; THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD

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