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Below are listed mistakes/omissions etc spotted in the 2012/2013 season.

 

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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