BBC Special: Bankers v Science Writers

Series Specials, Episode 56

Jump To: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Round 1

𓇌 Two Reeds

Richard Dimbleby

Ronnie Barker

Clue 2

John Reith

Clue 3

James MacTaggart

Clue 4

Lectures

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Queen Victoria knighted him then banished him

Queen Elizabeth married him then later called for his head

Clue 2

King Richard I knighted one of his companions

Clue 3

King James fought mud monsters with her

Clue 4

Monarchs in Doctor Who

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Donaldson/Scheffler adaptations

Zog, Stick Man, Zog and the Flying Doctors, The Snail and the Whale

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Radio 6 Music hosts

E=MC2 by Big Audio Dynamite (Don Letts), Lust for Life by Iggy Pop, Road Rage by Catatonia (Cerys Matthews), One Day Like This by Elbow (Guy Garvey)

Answer

𓈗 Water

Remote control car

Venus flytrap

Clue 2

Fluffy yapping “dog”, occasionally somersaulting

Clue 3

Paint pot hit by 2s falling from the right hand side

Clue 4

BBC Two idents

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Detectorists 2022 Christmas special

Twenty Twelve series 2

Clue 2

There She Goes series 2

Clue 3

Only Connect series 10 onwards

Clue 4

BBC Four graduates

Answer

Round 2

𓇌 Two Reeds

‘1

Songs of Praise

‘2

Steptoe and Son

Clue 2

‘3

Doctor Who

Clue 3

?

'4 (e.g.) Play School

Beginning in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

An arrow going around a globe

Michael Palin BBC travel shows. Hemingway Adventure, Full Circle, Pole 2 Pole, Around the World in 80 Days

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

John Webster

James Alexander Gordon

Clue 2

Charlotte Green

Clue 3

?

Nobody

Readers of the classified football results

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Honey ___

Aisling __

Clue 2

Caspian __

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Me ___

Bee, Bea, Sea, Too

Answer

𓈗 Water

Stephen Fry and Rob Brydon

Barry Cryer

Clue 2

Jack Dee

Clue 3

?

Humphrey Lyttleton

Hosts of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

He is unconscious in a fire

His rival is in a coma

Clue 2

His rival finds a corpse in the pool

Clue 3

?

He is shot

JR cliffhangers in Dallas

Answer

Round 3

𓃭 Lion

Earth

America

Parliament

Wales

BBC ___

Answer

Blofeld

Agnew

Norcross

Guha

Test Match Special commentators

Answer

No

Drax

Largo

Klebb

Bond villains

Answer

Look North

Johnston

WC Fields

Bogart

Begin with lavatorial language

Answer

𓈗 Water

Britain

Hour

Questions

Row

Last words of Radio 4 titles

Answer

Minute

Petite

Bijou

Pocket

Small

Answer

Uncle Bulgaria

Scott

Auk

Dane

Great ___

Answer

Crime

Shock

Micro

Radio

Waves

Answer

Round 4

Other programmes on BBC Two

G RTB RTS H RLW YJR NYS

GREAT BRITISH RAILWAY JOURNEYS

GRD NR S WRLD

GARDENERS' WORLD

CL NFR MCC NTS

COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS

Q

QI

Events of 1964

TH FR TH RD BR DGP ND

THE FORTH ROAD BRIDGE OPENED

HRL DWL SN BCM PR MMN STR

HAROLD WILSON BECAME PRIME MINISTER

RSS LL CR WW SB RN

RUSSELL CROWE WAS BORN

THF RSTC MPL NTW SRC VDB TBBC TW

THE FIRST COMPLAINT WAS RECEIVED ABOUT BBC TWO

Genres and what Only Connect would be called in them

C RMN D NLY DTCT

CRIME AND ONLY DETECT

DTN GN DLN LYCN NCT

DATING AND LONELY CONNECT

BKN GN DNL YCN FCT

BAKING AND ONLY CONFECT

CR TRM D RM ND N LY BJ CT

COURTROOM DRAMA AND ONLY OBJECT

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