Round Britain Quiz (or RBQ for short) is a panel game that has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1947, making it the oldest quiz still broadcast on British radio.
Originally hosted by Gilbert Harding, teams from various regions around the UK play in a tournament of head-to-head battles. In each half-hour programme, each team faces four multi-part questions with up to six points that are awarded on the host's judgement. The parts of the question generally have a common theme running throughout them, and a degree of lateral thought is often necessary to score full marks.
A game show is a radio or television programme involving members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes.
Quiz shows usually involves members of the public, but sometimes special shows are aired in which celebrities take part and the prizes are given to charity.
A panel game usually involves a celebrity panel answering questions about a specialist field such as sport or music and is often played for laughs as much as points.
The cryptic questions of RoundBritainQuiz have become legendary and you can suggest your own questions to test the teams by going to our Contact Us page.
Six teams from around the UK compete to answer puzzling questions which call for a certain degree of lateral thinking and draw upon knowledge in fields as diverse as literature, science, geography, popular culture and politics.
RoundBritainQuiz will return for a new series in 2006.
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