Below are listed mistakes/omissions etc spotted in the 2009/2010 season.
Sachertorte is named
after Franz Sacher who created it in 1832 for Prince Metternich and
not the hotel in Vienna. The hotel was built 44 years later in 1876
by his son. The first novel
written by Charles Dickens was 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick
Club' (The Pickwick Papers). It was first serialised between 1836 and
1837. A Christmas Carol which is usually regarded as a novella was not
published until 1843. Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity
Shop and Barnaby Rudge were all published before 1843. Arthur Leslie Large invented an electric kettle in 1922 not 1992! (9th November) Dot dash in Morse
code represents the letter A not M (that
is dash dash) The question which read 'Westminster Abbey is neither an abbey nor a cathedral, what is its official designation' points to the answer 'The Collegiate Church of St Peter' rather than the given answer of 'Royal Peculiar' - The Collegiate Church of St Peter is its formal name (formal name is synonymous with official designation) - A Royal Peculiar is a place of worship that falls directly under the jurisdiction of the British monarch, rather than a diocese and the list also currently also includes St Georges Chapel, Windsor and the Royal Chapel of All Saints, Windsor. (24th November) In the Bible Jesse was the father of David not vice versa (8th December) No Bourbon whiskey is made in Lynchburg, Tennessee. This is because Bourbon is made in Kentucky. Lynchburg produces Jack Daniel's which is a Tennessee sour-mash whiskey. (14th December) The island's flag which is made up of two blue and one yellow vertical stripes with a trident in the middle of the yellow stripe is Barbados not Bermuda (19th January) 'The evil that men do lives after them' is spoken by Mark Antony not by Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play (8th February) The Renault logo
is a stylized diamond shape rather than a double diamond. |
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