Feeling clever

[girlyswot]

I love the Round Britain Quiz. Ridiculously complex cryptic questions with multiple parts that make you feel exceptionally clever even to get one bit. I love the occasional moments when I get things before the contestants. And I especially love those moments when the terribly highbrow contestants don't get the popular culture references. I remember one time when all of them disclaimed knowledge of Robbie Williams' song, 'Angels'. Today they claimed not to know of Ronald McDonald. Yeah, right.

They have today's questions listed on the website, plus a listener question 'just for fun'. I'd love to know if anyone can solve it without Googling.

Comments

[amamama.livejournal.com]

Cool Quiz! Not that I got any of them, except for the teaser. *feels proud* Truth be told, that one wasn't that difficult. I decided it had to be either birds or beans, and went for birds... I don't think I would've caught the Ronald McDonald either. *shrugs* The Golden Gull is not really my restaurant of choice.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Good attempt, though you've only got part of the answer. Fielding's runners were certainly not birds, and I don't think the white runners are intended as a reference to birds either.

[amamama.livejournal.com]

Meh. I misunderstood - I thought they were all the same - i.e. different varieties. o that what they all had in commonwere that they were birds. I didn't google'em all to check...

[peverell.livejournal.com]

Not I! But then I'm Stupidⁿ. Or maybe my mind doesn't work that way. :)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I like it, too, though I get irritated sometimes by how slow they seem and wonder if they're spinning it out to fill up the programme. Nice to feel sometimes that you know something useful. I'm terrible at pub quizzes with all those questions about soaps.