Sunday Times Quiz

[owner2]

As a matter of curiosity did anyone who used Answerbank win anything and is there any dispute over any of the answers in today's ST?

[Maryland]

Yes, I have a dispute! Their translation of Salzburg is wrong. A "burg" is a castle but a "berg" is a mountain. If they have given the prize to someone who said Salt Mountain they are wrong to have done so.

[beagle1]

Looks to me like the majority of the winners were postal, not e-mail. I wonder if that is significant.

[apricot]

Mine were almost all correct too, but I didn't win anything. I have a query on 36a. I had UK but the answer was posted as St Vincent & Grenadines (which are UK). Anyone else have the same as me?

[muscroft]

Yes I'd go along with Maryland re Salzburg - definitely castle and hill or mountain should be down as wrong. I should think no more than 15% of responses were by email so probably 1 in 7 about right. I had the Hotel Martinez (30a) down as Beirut where there is a world famous hotel by that name - sod's law the editor chose the one in Cannes!! Never mind someone's got to win and someone's got to lose but either answers are right or there's a choice - not just sometimes!!

[owner2]

The website I checked said Woody Allen was talking about California, not LA., which proves that the net can't always be relied on for accuracy.I saw another site where the Virgin Islands tourist board was claiming the Columbus quote so the probability of our answers coinciding with the compiler's are probably fairly slim. It was fun while it lasted though.

[paul69]

in my opinion, majority of entries were by email

[wee eck]

re-Salzburg.Burg=castle,fort. But castle=Schloss.I decided on fortified town, so put Salt Town. Q44d- San Salvador is in Bahamas, where Columbus alledgedly made this quotation, so why is the answer Caribbean?

[beagle1]

I'm with you right there, wee-eck, on the Bahamas/Carribean point! I put Bahamas too - think its technically more accurate because that was where he is said to have first landed, although I have to say my first reaction was to say Carribean. Both are right and I guess the editor chose the wider one. Pity - but all good fun - I learned a lot of geography!

[Gaston]

Apricot, St Vincent & the Grenadines is a sovereign state. Part of the Commonwealth, but definitely not part of the UK.

[owner2]

Plenty of dispute then! did anyone win anything or have all the winners hopped it to new zealand and paris already?