Brasenose Postgrads v Hitchhikers

Series 3, Episode 10

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Round 1

𝝰 Alpha

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

'Dirty' nicknames

Ol' Dirty Bastard, Dirty Gertie, DBC (Dirty but Clean) Pierre, Dirty Harry

Answer

𝝱 Beta

Die

Refer to someone by name

Clue 2

Accuse someone of lying

Clue 3

Speak between the red lines

Clue 4

Forbidden in the House of Commons

Answer

𝝲 Gamma

Westminster Abbey

Turold the messenger

Clue 2

Halley’s Comet

Clue 3

William the Conqueror

Clue 4

Things on the Bayeux Tapestry

Answer

𝝳 Delta

Midnight, 1st January 1970

Brightness of Vega

Clue 2

Temperature of ice/salt mixture

Clue 3

Sea level at Newlyn

Clue 4

Baselines

Answer

𝝴 Epsilon

Railways

Blue Train by John Coltrane, Funiculì Funiculà by Pavarotti, Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk, Last Train to Clarksville by The Monkees

Answer

𝝵 Zeta

P.J. Tracy

Nicci French

Clue 2

Ellery Queen

Clue 3

Grant Naylor

Clue 4

Pseudonyms of writing partnerships

Answer

Round 2

𝝰 Alpha

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

Birdie

Below-par golf scores: Condor (-4), Albatross (-3), Eagle (-2), Birdie (-1)

Answer

𝝱 Beta

April 1st

August 2nd

Clue 2

December 3rd

Clue 3

?

February 4th

Months of the year in alphabetical order

Answer

𝝲 Gamma

Rerebrace

Couter

Clue 2

Vambrace

Clue 3

?

Gauntlet

Arm parts of a suit of armour

Answer

𝝳 Delta

House in Threadneedle Street

Division of labour in pin manufacturing

Clue 2

HMS Beagle

Clue 3

?

Newgate Prison

Background scenes on banknotes (£50, £20, £10, £5)

Answer

𝝴 Epsilon

Phloem

Cambium

Clue 2

Sapwood

Clue 3

?

Heartwood

Layers of a tree trunk

Answer

𝝵 Zeta

Florence Horsbrugh

Barbara Castle

Clue 2

Judith Hart

Clue 3

?

Margaret Thatcher

Women in the Cabinet

Answer

Round 3

𝝰 Alpha

Hash

Pilcrow

Bullet

Dagger

Typographical symbols

Answer

Pot

Stack

Breast

Piece

Parts of a chimney

Answer

Dandy

Blade

Blood

Rake

Dashing young men

Answer

Comb

Zip

Gearwheel

Saw

All have teeth

Answer

𝝱 Beta

Irish

$64,000

Trick

West Lothian

____ question

Answer

Flemish

English

Rat-trap

Header

Bricklaying bonds

Answer

Butt

Cross

Swan neck

Spider

Types of snooker rest

Answer

Alley

Leading

Gutter

Margin

White space on a page

Answer

Round 4

European national newspapers

LF GR

LE FIGARO

DWL T

DIE WELT

LP S

EL PAÍS

TH ND PND NTNS NDY

THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Nicknames for military leaders

LDBL DN DGTS

OLD BLOOD AND GUTS

T HDSR TFX

THE DESERT FOX

H RFT HNL

HERO OF THE NILE

ST RMN NRM N

STORMIN' NORMAN

High-grossing films of the 1940s

CS BLN C

CASABLANCA

T HBS TY RSF RL VS

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

THB LL SFS TMR YS

THE BELLS OF ST MARY'S

BMB

BAMBI

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