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threemonkeysOK, 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?
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?
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Date: 2009-03-07 09:59 pm (UTC)Actually another option in the multi-choice was "at an auto dealership". In times gone by, you might have heard "Rover" there too.