• Jan and Nicki Pedersen (both Denmark).
• Jahangir and Jansher Khan (both Pakistan).
• Alex and John Higgins (Northern Ireland and Scotland respectively).
• Phil Hill (USA); Graham and Damon Hill (England).

All unrelated except Graham and Damon Hill (father and son).

In a series 10 match the Chessmen picked up a point on this in their match against the Gallifreyans.

These are the colours and names of the ghosts in the game Pac-Man

• Pinky moves to four spaces ahead of Pac-Man.
• Clyde will chase Pac-Man if more than eight spaces away but otherwise moves to the bottom left corner.
• Blinky chases Pac-Man in Chase Mode and then returns to the maze corner.
• Inky moves to just in front of Pac-Man but its position is also determined by that of Blinky.

The Part-Time Poets scored 2 points on this in their game against the Surrealists.

• In linguistics, an asterisk is used to indicate that what follows is not grammatically correct in the native language.
• In spreadsheet programs such as Excel, an asterisk is used as a multiplication sign.
• In cricket, an asterisk means ‘Not out’.
• On online forms, an asterisk is used to indicate a field that you are required to fill in.

The Scunthorpe Scholars failed to spot this, and their opponents the Beekeepers picked up a bonus point.

• The holes in Swiss cheese are called eyes.
• The nasty little buds on potatoes are called eyes.
• A small area of low pressure and calm in the centre of a tornado or cyclone is an eye.
• The hole at the end of a needle is an eye.

The Korfballers picked up 2 points on this question in a series 12 contest.

• AUGUST: 1+1+2+1+1+1 = 7
• APOLLO: 1+3+1+1+1+1 = 8
• EXODUS: 1+8+1+2+1+1 = 14
• QUIZ: 10+1+1+10 = 22

The Korfballers scored a point on this question against the Shutterbugs.

One thing it is always worth asking is why a clue is not laid out in the normal way. The clues being in capitals can be a pointer to the question being a word puzzle.

• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• 8 Out of 10 Cats
• They Think It’s All Over
• Only Connect

Two points for the Wayfarers against the Bookworms.

Regular viewers will know that Only Connect lends itself to the odd self-referential question.

• The first prime number is 2.
• The next two prime numbers are 3 and 5.
• The next three are 7, 11 and 13.
• The next four are 17, 19, 23 and 29.

The Verbivores proved they could do numbers as well as words by scoring 2 points on this question in their match against the Psmiths.

ACCEPT: Ivanka, if the reasoning is “eldest daughter” otherwise DO NOT ACCEPT: Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany or Barron if the reasoning is “eldest child”

• Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, is an only child.
• Barbara Bush, daughter of George W. and Laura Bush, is the elder of twins.
• Malia, daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, is the elder of two.
• Donald Jr, first child of Donald and Ivana Trump. He is the oldest of five siblings and half-siblings.

In a series 9 match, the Software Engineers spotted this for 3 points in their match against the Welsh Learners.

The question has changed since broadcast in 2014 (where it started with George and ended with Malia). It might have been expected, at that point, that the answer would be Chelsea again …

This depicts Brian Johnston’s legendary piece of cricket commentary, apparently said at the Oval in 1976, when the West Indies’ Michael Holding bowled to England’s Peter Willey. Johnners read out a letter alleging that he had said it, but there is no recorded evidence that he did. Test Match Special boss Peter Baxter has said that the seemingly mischievous letter was sent by ‘a Miss Tess Tickle’.

In series 11, the Polyglots failed to answer this, and their opponents the Yorkers, in keeping with their name, snapped it up for a bonus point.

ACCEPT: ‘Going into battle’, etc

• Series 1 – The court of ‘Richard IV’. Prince Edmund accidentally poisons himself in a plot to steal the throne.
• Series 2 – The court of Elizabeth I. Prince Ludwig kills the entire cast while disguised as the queen.
• Series 3 – The court of Prince George, the Prince Regent. Swaps identities with the Prince, who is then killed in a duel with the Duke of Wellington. Edmund assumes the identity of the Prince.
• Series 4 – World War I trenches. The viewer assumes he is mowed down by machine-gun fire while going over the top (we do not see him die, only running in slow motion across no-man’s-land with his comrades).

The Romantics scored 2 points on this in their series 10 match against the Orienteers.

ACCEPT: anything with five rings

• The Mastercard logo is two interlinked rings.
• Rubik’s Magic was a Rubik puzzle consisting of eight double-sided plastic panels which were hinged together with wires. In its shop-bought or solved state, the puzzle shows three interlinked rings.
• Audi’s logo is four linked rings.
• The Olympic flag is five linked rings (blue, black, red, yellow, green) on a white background.

In series 6, the Educators spotted this on Clue 3 in their match against the Wordsmiths.

How did you do on this? Well done if you did as well as the Verbivores, who took the risk and scored the maximum 5. Considering they ended up beating the Fire-Eaters by 4 points, it was a pretty decisive gamble.

SPORT RELIEF 2012

Mark Gatiss

‘I did know it! We just didn’t get it! It was on the tip of my brain. This is something I would have known when I was eight. I’m very ashamed. Then again, we did win the match.’