Sirius not
Canopus is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere (17th
September)
Robbie Paul was
playing for Bradford Bulls and not St Helens
when he scored a hat-trick of tries in the Challenge Cup Final. Also
he achieved the feat in 1996 not 1995.
(8th October)
Didier Deschamps not Zinedine Zidane captained
France in 1998 FIFA World Cup (9th October)
There are 20 not
30 possible opening moves in chess. There are eight pawns and each pawn
has two possible moves. There are two knights and each knight has two
possible moves. (23rd October)
3 not
6 lies between 19 and 17 at the bottom of a dartboard (5th
November)
Randolph CHURCHILL
not TURPIN was a former Chancellor of the
Exchequer (19th November)
Hans Blix was a
Swedish UN inspector of weapons in Iraq not
a US inspector
There are numerous other terms for the knot known as the Carrick Bend
Sophocles not Socrates wrote the Theban
Plays
Although Pascal
constructed a calculating machine in 1642 it was not the first - the
word 'mechanical' should have been included in the question to make
it factually correct
Prince Harry not William was born in 1984
Mascarpone is made from cream, coagulated with citric acid or acetic
acid rather than from creme fraiche
Ravioli meaning 'little turnips' is only a suggested derivation not
a definite one.
The Gaelic Athletic Association is not a sport - the question about
its founding should have referred to a sporting organisation
The scaly anteater and trenggiling are alternative names for the pangolin
and should have been included in the answer.
Although the beer Bombardier is now produced by Wells and Young - the
name Wells only appears on the label and therefore (and Young) should
have been in brackets (29th January)
The
lemur is not an ape (25th February)
Although
France and Britain entered the Crimean War on 28th March 1854, the conflict
actually began in October 1853.
The Appian Way terminated at Brindisi and
not in Campania.
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim was published in 1900 not 1960.
Macbeth was
killed by the future Malcolm III in 1057 not 1056—the latter becoming
king in 1058 after he had killed Macbeth’s successor Lulach
who was Macbeth’s stepson (26th February)
'Enigma'
and 'The Ghost' by Robert Harris are novels not
poems
Shakespeare's Measure For Measure is set in Vienna not
Venice
Winchester is in Hampshire not Sussex (5th
March)
Whereas
Somalia has the longest coastline on mainland Africa, Madagascar's is
longer and therefore the word mainland should have been specified. (26th
March)
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