TWC quiz

[Somerset]

1. Pink cricket balls [for limited overs matches]
2. Seeing the Sunrise (by Justin Langer)
3. "Micro-shine" trousers which have a special patch that aid polishing the ball
4. Andrew Strauss
5. Tony Frost
6. Andre Nel and Gunther
7. Allen Stanford
8. Australian fielders wearing blue caps containing a VB logo instead of traditional baggy green caps in a tour match.
9. Woolen sweaters
10. "Feng shui-ed"
11. Nick Knight
12. Old Trafford
13 Green Park (also known as Modi Stadium) in Kanpur, India
14. Bobby Abel
15. Sanath Jayasuriya, Wasim Akram and Shaun Pollock
16. Matt Prior
17. Tim Robinson
18. KILLICK (from Tom Killick)
19. Johnny Briggs
20. Adam and Ben Hollioake
21. New Zealand and West Indies
22. Jacques Kallis
23. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
24. Percy Chapman
25. Mark Butcher and Simon Jones
26. Paul Collingwood
27. The third test in the 2005 Ashes series, at Old Trafford (when Michael Vaughan and Ricky Ponting both scored hundreds)
28. Sylvester Clarke
29. Darren Lehmann and Craig White
30. Graeme Smith
31. Len Hutton
32. He was the first player to bat as night watchman in two tests involving debutant wicket keepers
33. Most test match innings before being dismissed for a duck
34. Daniel Vettori
35. Arthur Morris
36. Peter May
37. Angus Fraser
38. David Gower
39. Graham Gooch
40. Ian Bell
41. Everton Weekes
42. They all had sons who played county cricket for Sussex
43. They all had animal nicknames/were called names of animals
44. They were all ambassadors for hair care/restoration products
45. (no answer)
46. David Gower
47. Mike Gatting
48. Ian Bell
49. Liam Plunkett
50. Dennis Lillee
51. Ian Chappell
52. Eddie Barlow
53. Stuart Broad
54. Joel Garner
55. Shaun Udal

The answers in green I have an element of doubt about but wasn't too unhappy with those responses. The answers in yellow were either educated or random guesses.

 

[Brears]

1. Pink cricket balls [for limited overs matches]
2. Seeing the Sunrise (by Justin Langer)
3. "Micro-shine" trousers which have a special patch that aid polishing the ball
4. Andrew Strauss
5. Tony Frost
6. Andre Nel and Gunther
7. Allen Stanford
8. Australian fielders wearing blue caps containing a VB logo instead of traditional baggy green caps in a tour match.
9. Woolen sweaters
10. "Feng shui-ed"
11. Nick Knight
12. Old Trafford
13 Green Park (also known as Modi Stadium) in Kanpur, India
14. Bobby Abel
15. Sanath Jayasuriya, Wasim Akram and Shaun Pollock
16. Matt Prior
17. Tim Robinson
18. KILLICK (from Tom Killick)
19. Johnny Briggs
20. Adam and Ben Hollioake
21. New Zealand and West Indies
22. Jacques Kallis
23. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
24. Percy Chapman
25. Mark Butcher and Simon Jones
26. Paul Collingwood
27. The third test in the 2005 Ashes series, at Old Trafford (when Michael Vaughan and Ricky Ponting both scored hundreds)
28. Sylvester Clarke
29. Darren Lehmann and Craig White
30. Graeme Smith
31. Len Hutton
32. He was the first player to bat as night watchman in two tests involving debutant wicket keepers
33. Most test match innings before being dismissed for a duck
34. Daniel Vettori
35. Arthur Morris
36. Peter May
37. Angus Fraser
38. David Gower
39. Graham Gooch
40. Ian Bell
41. Everton Weekes
42. They all had sons who played county cricket for Sussex
43. They all had animal nicknames/were called names of animals
44. They were all ambassadors for hair care/restoration products
45. (no answer)
46. David Gower
47. Mike Gatting
48. Ian Bell
49. Liam Plunkett
50. Dennis Lillee
51. Ian Chappell
52. Eddie Barlow
53. Stuart Broad
54. Joel Garner
55. Shaun Udal

The answers in green I have an element of doubt about but wasn't too unhappy with those responses. The answers in yellow were either educated or random guesses.

You look in good shape - I think the links you didn't get were a) Atherton etc - Fishing and b) Croft etc - Pilots. I went with Bobby Abel and also Douglas Jardine for the scrabble question. We'll have to wait and see now.

How's Auckland? I had three years there, played for Eden Roskill - great place.

 

[Somerset]

You look in good shape - I think the links you didn't get were a) Atherton etc - Fishing and b) Croft etc - Pilots. I went with Bobby Abel and also Douglas Jardine for the scrabble question. We'll have to wait and see now.

How's Auckland? I had three years there, played for Eden Roskill - great place.

I was terrible with the links questions, bit too trivial for me tbh - was hoping for more statistically linked players! If you got both of those questions correct, and I'd imagine that would be the case, you're in with a chance as well I'd say. Best of luck.

Nice to hear about your experience in New Zealand, Mt Roskill/Mt Eden is a short drive from where I am. Auckland's summer is very nice at the moment, probably a bit nicer than your English winter I'm guessing. You'll find that theres a large number of New Zealanders on this board too by the way.

Edit: Is Jardine a legal word in Scrabble?

 

[The Sean]

Is there a link to the original questions that I've missed somewhere?

 

[Somerset]

Hmm yes I suppose a list of questions would've helped. Google "wisden cricketer christmas quiz 2008" and theres another forum with all the questions, I'm not so keen to type them all out.

 

[biased indian]

Hmm yes I suppose a list of questions would've helped. Google "wisden cricketer christmas quiz 2008" and theres another forum with all the questions, I'm not so keen to type them all out.

copy paste ...i haven't put the last 10 picture questions

That was the year that was
1 What MCC experiment might Barbara Cartland have approved of?
2 Now retired from Test cricket, Somerset's left-handed opener wrote a handbook for overcoming self-doubt in 2008. What was the title?
3 What Wallace & Gromit secret weapon did the Kiwis covertly experiment with at the 2008 Old Trafford Test?
4 Who didn't care that he broke a world record in 2008. He said: "If it hadn't been pointed out to me, I wouldn't have known."
5 Who started the English season as assistant groundsman but ended up scoring over 1,000 first-class runs?
6 A Test cricketer says he has an alter ego - an Oxygen-starved German mountain dweller. What are their names?
7 Whose excuse for his antics was: "They were complete strangers. One said she was from LA, the other from New Zealand"?
8 What faux pas upset traditionalists on Australia's Caribbean tour?
9 What was good enough for Action Man and Dr Who (Peter Davison) but not Michael Vaughan?
10 With what term of Chinese origin - meaning bowled - did Phil Tufnell baffle the TMS team?

The Allrounders
11 Ganguly signed off his Test career with a golden duck. Which England Test centurion also succumbed to a first-baller this millennium in his final Test innings?
12 In Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, Charters and Caldicott were desperately trying to get to a Test match. Where?
13 In 2008, Lord's registered its sixth consecutive draw. Which venue has witnessed seven Test draws in a row?
14 Who is the shortest batsman to score a Test century for England?
15 Which three players have scored over 3,000 runs and taken 300 wickets in ODIs?
16 Which Englishman in ODIs was the last non-designated wicketkeeper to make a stumping?
17 Who of the regular umpires on the 2008 County Championship circuit has scored the most first-class runs?
18 Name the inter-war England Test player's surname that could score, legally, over 90 points at the start of a Scrabble game?
19 Which Victorian England cricketer shared the same name as an actor who played a long-running character in a British TV soap?
20 Apart from the Waugh Twins, which brothers most recently played together in an Ashes Test?

Test matches
21 Who were England's opponents when they compiled over 300 runs and conceded over 300 runs in the same day?
22 Which player has scored over 9,000 Test runs and taken over 240 Test wickets?
23 Which leading and current Test cricketer once shot a policeman?
24 Who, prior to Kevin Pietersen, last skippered an England Test side having never previously been captain in a first-class match?
25 Before Stuart Broad and Ryan Sidebottom, who were the last sons of Test cricketers to play together for England in the same Test?
26 England's Test XI at Edgbaston in 2008 contained 10 players who had won Test man-of-the-match awards. Who was the odd man out?
27 Both captains at Lord's in May (Vaughan and Vettori) qualified for the Test honours board (for scoring a hundred or taking five wickets). When was the previous time opposing captains did as much in England?
28 In 1999 which Barbados and West Indian fast bowler died aged 44?
29 Within the last 30 years an Australian Test cricketer and his brother-in-law were selected for a Brisbane Test. The brother-in-law had played only two Sheffield Shield matches. Name the pair?

Feats
30 Who in England this summer would have scored 100 runs in a Test session had his final shot cleared the ropes?
31 At The Oval Andrew Flintoff won the Test with a six. Who was the previous England batsman to do this in a home Test?
32 What Test Record did Matthew Hoggard break at Hamilton - overtaking Derek Underwood and Saqlain Mushtaq?
33 What record did AB de Villiers take off Aravinda de Silva this summer?

Who is being described?
34 "Like an aesthete from the Bloomsbury group, with his lean frame, glasses and often unkempt appearance", wrote Michael Atherton
35 "A most contented cricketer. I can visualise him on a sheep farm in Tasmania, sipping lager on the verandah, the ideal temperament for dealing with fast bowlers", said Len Hutton
36 "Even Ray Illingworth said he was tremendous. For him to say that about somebody with three initials who had a southern background and went to public school, he must have been good", Mike Atherton
37 "His bowling is like shooting down F-16s with slingshots. Even if they hit, no damage is done", Colin Croft
38 "He's not by nature a grafter. One suspects that he'd rather order new crockery than do the washing up and, if one day he couldn't see through his back window for weeds, he'd either employ a gardener or simply move", wrote Martin Johnson
39 He celebrated that day as he had all season "with the visual expression of someone who had just been issued with a parking ticket", Martin Johnson
40 "The future of English batsmanship has the technique of Geoffrey Boycott, the patience of Mike Atherton - and the face of a ferret", from a county member
41 "it's a good job your father wasn't a West Bromwich Albion supporter", Jim Laker

What links...?
42 Norman Wisdom, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Fred Tate and James Langridge
43 Mike Atherton, Ian Botham, Douglas Jardine and Andrew Symonds
44 Farokh Engineer, Denis Compton, Graham Gooch and Shane Warne
45 Johathan Agnew, Colin Croft, Andrew Caddick and Ted Dexter

 

[Somerset]

The picture questions were:

46. Biggles
47. Jabba the Hut
48. Sherman (from American Pie)
49. Pudsey Bear
50. Dennis the Menace
51. Forrest Gump
52. Billy Bunter
53. Draco Malfoy
54. Big Bird
55. Shaggy (from Scooby Doo)

You had to associate test cricketers with each fictional character.

 

[Swisj]

18 Name the inter-war England Test player's surname that could score, legally, over 90 points at the start of a Scrabble game? - Killick or Jardine do not score over 90, don't think any player does as you only have 7 tiles and have to use the centre square so can't be triple word score - or have I got scrabble rules wrong?


Test matches
21 Who were England's opponents when they compiled over 300 runs and conceded over 300 runs in the same day? New Zealand - West Indies - Answer does not make sense to me can someone please explain. 588 runs most runs scored in a days play in any test???

Think I must be thick!!

 

[G.I.Joe]

The picture questions were:

46. Biggles
47. Jabba the Hut
48. Sherman (from American Pie)
49. Pudsey Bear
50. Dennis the Menace
51. Forrest Gump
52. Billy Bunter
53. Draco Malfoy
54. Big Bird
55. Shaggy (from Scooby Doo)

You had to associate test cricketers with each fictional character.

Were the associations to be made on a visual basis or literary sense? I'd differ from your answers to these (unless I'm missing something very obvious):

51. Stuart Clark
54. Scott Styris
55. Ishant Sharma

 

[fredfertang]

18 Name the inter-war England Test player's surname that could score, legally, over 90 points at the start of a Scrabble game? - Killick or Jardine do not score over 90, don't think any player does as you only have 7 tiles and have to use the centre square so can't be triple word score - or have I got scrabble rules wrong?


Test matches
21 Who were England's opponents when they compiled over 300 runs and conceded over 300 runs in the same day? New Zealand - West Indies - Answer does not make sense to me can someone please explain. 588 runs most runs scored in a days play in any test???

Think I must be thick!!

You get a 50 point bonus for using all 7 letters at Scrabble so Jardine fits the bill as would Killick, but unfortunately there is only one "K", so I fear that's wrong

As for 21 I presume that refers to 1929/30 when two English teams were playing tests in NZ and WI at the same time

 

[Goughy]

You get a 50 point bonus for using all 7 letters at Scrabble so Jardine fits the bill as would Killick, but unfortunately there is only one "K", so I fear that's wrong

Is Jardine really a legal word in Scrabble? I didnt think it was or am I mising the point?
To legally score over 90 points wouldnt it have to be a legal scrabble word?

EDIT- I know nothing about Scrabble but what about Dolphin? Debuted in 20/21. What does Dolphin score in Scrabble?

 

[fredfertang]

Is Jardine really a legal word in Scrabble? I didnt think it was or am I mising the point?
To legally score over 90 points wouldnt it have to be a legal scrabble word?

EDIT- I know nothing about Scrabble but what about Dolphin? Debuted in 20/21. What does Dolphin score in Scrabble?

wondered how long it would be before that one was spotted - back to the drawing board - dolphin i think scores 84

 

[Goughy]

Where is Scaly when we need him

EDIT- What is Chapman worth? or more likely Hallows?

 

[fredfertang]

Chapman is just 90 I believe

 

[Somerset]

Were the associations to be made on a visual basis or literary sense? I'd differ from your answers to these (unless I'm missing something very obvious):

51. Stuart Clark
54. Scott Styris
55. Ishant Sharma

I'd imagine that the association is more literary than visual - otherwise I'd agree with your answers, but if that was the case, I think there would be too much ambiguity.

 

[Somerset]

Chapman is just 90 I believe

The question asks for a legal word scoring more than 90 points.

Killick was the only interwar player I found to legally score more than 90 points but that was using two Ks, which I overlooked so may be wrong.

 

[Somerset]

Test matches
21 Who were England's opponents when they compiled over 300 runs and conceded over 300 runs in the same day? New Zealand - West Indies - Answer does not make sense to me can someone please explain. 588 runs most runs scored in a days play in any test???

Think I must be thick!!

The questions asks for England's opponents - this refers to two opponents. In the 1930s England sent two touring sides to New Zealand and the West Indies respectively, and several of the tests overlapped. On one particular day, England scored 375/6 in New Zealand, but conceeded 336/2 against the West Indies in the Carribean. So therefore compiled and conceeded more than 300 runs on one single day. Essentially a trick question, I'd agree.

 

[The H]

Hi chaps,

I was the one who put the questions up on the other website, grffinpark.org. The only website with the questions up for a month , hence me taking down the answers there. Think we threw you with the Ian Chappell answer as I believe Shaun Tait is nicknamed Forrest Gump.

However well done, I think you got one or two more than me. Now I'm here I'll definitely be looking in more often.

Paul

 

[Somerset]

Hi chaps,

I was the one who put the questions up on the other website, grffinpark.org. The only website with the questions up for a month , hence me taking down the answers there. Think we threw you with the Ian Chappell answer as I believe Shaun Tait is nicknamed Forrest Gump.

However well done, I think you got one or two more than me. Now I'm here I'll definitely be looking in more often.

Paul

Yes I was surprised that your forum was the only one who had the entire list of questions! I was a bit hesitant to copy and paste them to this topic because I know who long it would've taken to type them all out. You may remember me from last year as I found the list of questions on your forum then too!

I didn't know where else to go with Forrest Gump and Chappell was the best option I could find. Wouldn't have gone with Tait anyway.

I had a quick look at your answers on your forum and I counted 45 answers which we have the same. The ones I think I answered correctly to you were 31, 38 and 39. The ones I think you definitely answered correctly and I got wrong were 45 and 51. Looks like we both were stuck with 4, 32 and 43. I'm not yet convinced about the Scrabble question so not sure which of us is right though I'd fancy your chances more than mine (Jardine rather than Killick). The other one that differed was quote 35, was Boon a guess or are you confident in that? Arthur Morris for me was a pure guess.

 

[The H]

the Boon one was found in a book of quotes by a mate who was also helping..

Yup got 31 wrong, and the other 2 were guesses. Colin Croft has a pilot's licence and its the sort of thing that Dexter would have too, so it seemed logical to put it down, no idea if its right though.

Hopefully a few will put down Marcus Trescosthick's book and that Malcolm Marshall died aged 44.