WTF?

OK, this just has me perplexed. See I have one of those desk calendars that gives you a trivia question per day. On Friday, it posed the question "Where might you hear people mention the terms penultimate and rover?" The answer given, from a multi-choice set is "On a cricket pitch".

They are valid English words, and I suppose you could fit them into the description of a game but I wouldn't think them distinctively cricket terms in any way. For example penultimate does occasionally get used by commentators in a restricted overs match, but it isn't common. Then perhaps "rover" is just somebody mishearing "over" but I haven't spotted anything else that badly researched. The other questions are very American and rather old which might be a factor (it also makes it a crap calendar generally).

Google does not group the words sensibly, so I'm turning to you. Any ideas?

Mystery #2

Cheap flights Welly to Auckland (and vice versa) $39 one-way inclusive of all fees etc. Why therefore when I booked a return journey did it end up at $78.01. There isn't much scope for rounding errors when you add 39 + 39.

It doesn't give you much faith in their systems. But then I'm making a booking with an airline that goes out of business 2 weeks after the date of my bookings - I suspect there are other risks involved.

The astute amongst you will have worked out that I have made bookings for local QB weekend for Conscription. The even more astute can probably infer that these particular bookings mean that I won't be travelling on to Adelaide for Conjecture the following weekend. Final confirmation of something I have suspected for a while - it is just a con too far.