CAN you beat the boffins behind the trickiest quiz on radio?
Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme have their brains boggled by daily puzzles. Now, as they are compiled into a book for the first time, see if you can solve this selection. Answers below . . .
1.
What comes next? Two-faced god, war god, spring goddess, ????.
2.
They were patented in London in 1845. They are often used in the castration of farm animals. At the height of his success, the Colombian drugs baron Pablo Escobar was spending $1,000 a week on them. What are they?
3.
How likely is it that two or more people in London have the same number of hairs on their head?
4.
France is Marseille. Germany is Hamburg. Italy is Milan. Spain is Barcelona. What is the UK?
5.
Which is the only letter of the alphabet not to appear in the name of any US state?
6.
Jeremy Corbyn boards a train to Newcastle and, having learned from past mistakes, has reserved himself one of the 500 seats. But he is the last to board and finds every other passenger has sat in seats at random, leaving one seat free. Determined to take only the seat reserved in his name, what is the probability Jeremy won’t have to sit on the floor?
7.
Which famous trilogy connects the following five words? Monkeys, city, northwest, summer, Comfort.
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8.
My British friend James Jason works as a DJ at the BBC, where his programme is broadcast on both FM and AM at the same time. His business card says: J Jason DJ FM/AM. I’ve found a pattern in his card. What is it?
- Today Programme Puzzle Book, published by Cassell, £12.99, octopusbooks.co.uk.
Answers
1. Julius Caesar. They are the sources for the names of every other month, starting at January. January is named for Janus, the two-faced god; March for Mars, the god of war; May for Maia, the spring goddess; July for Julius Caesar. 2. Rubber bands. Escobar needed them for his cash. 3. Certain. The maximum number of hairs on a head is around 200,000. There are more than eight million people in London. They cannot all have a different number of hairs as there are not enough options. 4. Birmingham. They are all the second-largest cities in each country by population. 5. Q. 6. 1 in 500. It is equivalent to Jeremy boarding the train and trying to pick his own seat at random from 500 empty ones. 7. Ocean’s trilogy. The words are connected by the five oceans: Arctic Monkeys, Atlantic City, Pacific Northwest, Indian Summer and Southern Comfort. 8. The sequence J J A S O N D J F M A M is more familiar as the initials of the names of the month, from June through to May.
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Age: 18
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