Winter Warmer Quiz - Competition now closed
By Barmy Kev (assisted by Ged)
January 5 2006
It’s that time of year, so we thought we’d cheer everyone up with a cricket quiz to keep your brain cells warm during the winter. Barmy Kev has come up trumps with a heap of fiendish questions.
MIDDLESEX
TILL WE DIE
WINTER WARMER QUIZ
WITH PRIZE(S)
It’s that time of year, so
we thought we’d cheer everyone up with a cricket quiz to keep your brain cells
warm during the winter. Barmy Kev has come up trumps with a heap of fiendish
questions. Last year’s quiz was totally
Middlesex oriented, so we thought we’d widen the inquiry this year to encompass
world cricket, with just a small nod to parochialism; an England section.
Janet Davis has very kindly
donated a superb prize this year: the much sought after Ashes DVD.
There will also be an award
for the most amusing answer to a question, so even if you can’t get many of the
answers right, you might still be up for an award. Honorable mention is guaranteed for several of
the best spoof answers, but if one wag really is deemed to be exceptional, Ged might even conjure up another
of his memorable small prizes.
Please e-mail your answers
to gedladd@hotmail.co.uk
NOTE: THE CLOSING DATE FOR COMPETITION ENTRIES HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 4 JANUARY 2006.
The answers, the prize
winners and the publishable, humorous responses will be published on this site
as soon after the closing date as the seasonal festivities and seasonal
absences allow. Watch this space for
further announcements.
Good luck to you all.
SECTION A – A FEW FOR
STARTERS
A1/
Which two countries played the first ever
international cricket match?
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A2/
Who was the first player to score 20 ODI centuries?
ANSWER:
A3/
Which champion fast-bowler has the dubious
honour of having scored more "ducks" than any other player in the
history of test cricket?
ANSWER:
A4/
Who was the first batsmen to score 30 Test
match centuries?
ANSWER:
A5/
Who was the first player to score a 100
and take 5 wickets in an innings in an ODI.?
ANSWER:
A6/ Who was the first test player to
score 150 in both innings in 1979?
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SECTION B –
B1/
Name the only cricketer whose surname was the same as the county he played for.
[2 POINTS]
ANSWER:
B2/
In 1939
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B3/
Name the player who took the catch that
secured the Ashes for
ANSWER:
B4/ Who was the first
English bowler to take a hat-trick in an ODI?
ANSWER:
B5/ Who on his test debut for
England score a pair but ended up with 8900 runs?
ANSWER:
B6/ Who played 2 tests for England in 1993 and two more ten years later?
ANSWER:
SECTION C – MEATY, BEATY,
BIG AND BOUNCY QUESTIONS
C1/
Name the captain, batsman and bowler involved in bowling an underarm ball when
ANSWER:
C2/
What was so extraordinary about the century made by
Rick McCosker for
ANSWER:
C3/
Australian T J
ANSWER:
C4/ Which English first-class county had a player in the England Test team
least recently? Name the player. [2 points]
ANSWER:
C5/ Name the only four cricketers to have have scored 1000 runs, taken 100
wickets and held 100 catches in Tests? [4
points]
ANSWER:
C6/ Name the only test cricketer who has never
batted, never bowled and never taken a catch in a test match. Which county did he play for? Believe it or not, this player achieved
another significant test record before he died – what was that record? [3
points]
ANSWER:
SECTION D – MISCELLANY
D1/
Apart from
ANSWER:
D2/ Which
country won the 2002 Cricket World Cup for the blind? [2 points]
ANSWER:
D3/ If every
batsman in an innings got out first ball, what would be the number of the
batsman shown not out?
ANSWER:
D4/ Who are the defending
champions of cricket for the Commonwealth games? [2 points]
ANSWER:
D5/ Which ex international cricketer has the middle name Dylan, acquired as
a tribute to his favourite singer?
ANSWER:
D6/ What was unusual about Denis Lillie’s bat used briefly in Perth in
1979/80?
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SECTION E – AND FINALLY……
E1/ He is
the only wicket keeper to have kept wickets in a five-match Test series without
conceding a single bye. Name him. [2 points]
ANSWER:
E2/ Who
was the only home grown player to play in the Melbourne Australia v England
Boxing day test 2002?
ANSWER:
E3/ Who in a test series 1998/99 lasted a record 101 minutes without
scoring a run? And
who eventually dismissed him? [2 points]
ANSWER:
E4/ Which Northamptonshire cricketer in 1990 batted for 12 successive
innings without scoring a run?
ANSWER:
E5/ Who was the first cricketer who
started a test match as wicket keeper and ended up taking a wicket as a bowler
in the match?
ANSWER:
E6/ And there had to be one
Middlesex-oriented question: How many test innings did it take before Mike Gatting scored his first test century? [2 points]
ANSWER:
MAXIMUM
SCORE: 50 POINTS.
TIE
BREAKER QUESTION: Who, at the end of the 2005 season,
described the
THAT’S
ALL FOLKS – ONCE AGAIN, GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR ENTRIES.