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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.
Tamara Mellon was co-founder in 1996 with Jimmy Choo rather than founder of Jimmy Choo Ltd.
The question about John Aldridge and Jose Antonio Reyes missing penalties in FA Cup Finals should have included "at Wembley" as the first penalty missed in an FA Cup final was by Charlie Wallace of Aston Villa in 1913 (14th September)

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.
Goliath also refers to frog as well as toad and beetle as the largest of its species.
There are several claimants including Damascus as well as Jericho being the oldest inhabited city in the world. If Jericho is to be the answer it's safer to ask which is the oldest WALLED inhabited city.
Rapidamente is a better answer than 'pronto' for the Spanish for 'quickly'. It would have been better to ask 'Which Spanish word is also used in English slang for 'quickly' 'soon' or 'promptly'?' (13th October)

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)
Mel Gibson voiced John Smith in the 1995 film Pocahontas not the title character, that was voiced by Irene Bedard.
Edward VI reigned from 1547 to 1553 not 1471-1483 that was the second part of the reign of Edward IV. (17th November)

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.
The geographical centre of England has many claimants and differing methods of calculation - if Meriden is the main one then the closest city is Coventry not Leicester.
Accorfing to the RSPB the white-tailed eagle not the buzzard is the largest bird of prey native to England. (16th February)


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