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Below are listed mistakes/omissions etc spotted in the 2010/2011 season.

Ushuaia in Argentina, not Punta Arenas in Chile, is the world's most southerly city (14th September)

James Bond attended Fettes College as well as Eton
Dihydrogen Monoxide rather than Hydrogen Dioxide is an alternative name for water - the latter would be one hydrogen atom and two oxugen! (21st September)

Since the Law Reform Act (1996), the charge of murder no longer applies with regard to the victim dying within a year and a day of the offence. (4th October)

In the absence of a date Hardy Amies as well as Norman Hartnell is as equally a good answer to the question about which designer was appointed royal dressmaker.
Jim Caviezel not Calziel olayed the title role in the remake of the cult TV programme The Prisoner
Lynn Redgrave took the title role in the film 'Georgy Girl', not Gregory's Girl'.
Although the Superbowl Final was played for many years in January it is currently played on the first Sunday in February. (5th October)

There are or have been 'Gordon Bennett' trophies in ballooning and air races as well as motor racing (15th November and 14th December)

The death penalty for murder in the UK was abolished in 1969 not 1996.
Whereas Rod Stewart may have had the most UK album number hits by a British (not in the question!) solo artist, Madonna has had one more.
Guildford is a town not a city.
Helen Mirren, not Cate Blanchett has played Elizabeth I on TV and Elizabeth in a movie in the last decade(16th November)

The name Noah Kaminsky was once considered by Neil Diamonf as a possible stage name. It was not his birth name - he was born Neil Leslie Diamond. (30th November)

In Niagara Falls, Goat Iisland separates Bridal Veil Falls from the Horseshoe Falls not the American Falls (December 13th)

It is incorrect to say that Edmund Halley invented the divng bell. Although in 1691 he completed plans for a diving bell capable of remaining submerged for extended periods of time, its use was first described by Aristotle in the 4th century BC. Guglielmo de Lorena created and used what is considered to be the first modern diving bell in 1535.
Herd, lamentation, eyrar are other collective nouns for swans as well as bevy.
Grand Marnier, Cyaracao and indeed any orange flavoured liqueur as well as Cointreau can be added to vodka and cranberry juice to make a Cosmopolitan cocktail (December 14th)

Wealthy peasants is a better answer than farmers for the kulaks who were eradicated by Stalin.
Rotherham United no longer play at Millmoor, their current home whilst a new stadium is being built is the Don Valley Stadium
The holocene is an epoch not a period.
Frisian is not the second official language of the Netherlands - along with Low Saxon and Limburgish it is a recognised regional language.
Polar explorers Amundsen, Sverdrup and Wisting as well as Nansen used the Fram as their ship. (January 11th)

Pittsburg stands at the confluence of three rivers - Allegheny River and Monongahela River which form the Ohio River,
Leonard Cheshire had two wives - American actress Constance Binney as well as Sue Ryder
Thomas Edison was known as The Wizard on Menlo Park - not Wenlo Park
Guayaquil is the chief port of Ecuador not Peru
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard both held the post of PM of Australia in June 2010 (the date the quiz purports to be correct) (January 18th)

The nuclear power station on Anglesey is Wylfa not Wilfra.
Andy Murray does not come from Lockerbie - he was born in Glasgow and brought up in Dunblane

Alfred Wainwright brought out books about other parts of the country as well as about the Lake District.
Angevin as well as Plantagenet is an equally acceptable answer for which royal house followed the Normans.
Apart from Siena, there are many other palios that are held throughout the various regions of Italy.
Sea monster should have been the answer to what is the kraken - the myth may have been inspired by sightings of a giant squid but that is only one theory.
Steve Jobs as well as Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak was a founder of Apple. (January 25th)

Whereas he was the youngest male winner, Martin Luther King was not the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize - that distinction goes to Mairead Maguire (nee Corrigan) the Northern Ireland peace activist. He was 35 and she was 32 (1st February)

Gillespie Road tube station was renamed Arsenal not Highbury (February 8th)


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