The Line & Length Monday XI: answers

Answers to this week's quiz are now available via the link below. Glad to see that it was a bit more testing this week.

This week's theme is cricketers and Oxbridge. Elitist? Maybe, but at least it's different.

Question 1 Which former Middlesex player was the last England cricketer to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge?

Question 2 With which two former polytechnics are Oxford and Cambridge now linked as UCCEs?

Question 3 Who was the first England captain to be a graduate of a university other than Oxford or Cambridge? (Botham and the University of Life doesn't count)

Question 4 Which England leg spin bowler went to Oxford but did not shine academically, being thrown out after, as he admitted, getting "1 per cent in one paper and [being] not so successful in another"?

Question 5 Which 18th-century writer was a student at Oxford and wrote that he played cricket there, giving us an earliest date of 1729 for cricket in that city?

Question 6 What mistake did Chris Scott, the present Cambridge coach, make in 1994 that proved very costly for Durham?

Question 7 What connects the Cambridge coach in the 1990s and the all-rounder who was called up by England while a student at Cambridge in the 1980s? Give both their names.

Question 8 Which India captain held the record for the highest score made for Oxford against Cambridge, 238*, which stood until 2005?

Question 9 Into which profession did almost one third of all Oxbridge cricket Blues go in the 19th century?

Question 10 Which uncle and nephew, both Test cricketers who averaged well above 40, went to Cambridge?

Question 11 Douglas Jardine played in three University Matches for Oxford in the early 1920s and competed against three Cambridge players who would go on to captain England. Name them.

Answer 1 Jamie Dalrymple (thought the former Middlesex line might throw some of you into going for Ed Smith

Answer 2 Anglia Poly and Oxford Brookes

Answer 3 Nasser Hussain (Durham)

Answer 4 Ian Peebles

Answer 5 Samuel Johnson

Answer 6 He dropped Brian Lara on 18 and the batsman went on to make 501

Answer 7 Two Dereks, Randall and Pringle

Answer 8 Nawab of Patuadi Sr

Answer 9 The clergy

Answer 10 Ranjitsinjhi and Duleepsinjhi

Answer 11 Percy Chapman, Arthur Gilligan and Gubby Allen

Comments

[Patrick Kidd]

The answer to Gordon's excellent question is William Webb Ellis, the rugby inventing chap and Oxford's No 3 in 1827:
http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/0/440.html

[Vidhya]

What is the answer to Gordon's question ?

[Gordon]

1. Jamie Dalrymple
2. Anglia Polytechnic and Oxford Brookes
3. Nasser Hussain
4. Bosanquet
5. Samuel Johnson
6. Dropped Lara when he went on to get 501 vs Durham
7. Derek Pringle and Derek Randall
8. Nawab of Pataudi
9. The church
10. Duleepsinhji and Ranjitsinhji
11. A.E.R. Gilligan, A.P.f. Chapma and G.O. Allen

A question to add to the list is "Which sporting name, forever imortalised in a gold cup, played in the first varsity match?"

[GSTEWART]

The answer to question 9 is - The Church

[David]

9 - the clergy

[Jesus M]

I know nothing about cricket, but....
2) Anglia Ruskin- Cambridge and Oxford Brookes- Oxford

Watch out for the Cambridge Blues batsman this year- Frankie Brown....real talent!

[mr grainger]

I refuse to answer these questions as they are too elitist! How about a quiz on well-known cricketing Marxists!

[Vidhya]

Can't expect someone like me from outside England to score too many points in this :-)

1. Ed Smith
4. Ian Peebles ?
6. Dropped Lara when on 18. Lara scored another 483 runs
7. The all-rounder is Derek Pringle (called up for the Lord's Test against India in 1982)
8. Nawab of Pataudi Sr
9. Lawyers ?

[Johnmc]

I hope these are going to get easier as the year goes on...

1 Ed Smith
2 Oxford Brookes & ???
3 Nasser Hussain (I'm sure it must be earlier)
4 Trick question - England don't do leg spinners
5
6 Dropped Brian Lara during his 501
7 Derek Pringle was the player
8 Sunil Gavaskar
9 Lawyers
10 I had a hunch about this one but had to look it up eventually so I won't give it away
11 Gubby Allen and two friends

[Jamie]

Think i may have got half without cheating (honestly!)

1) Ed Joyce
2) Oxford Brookes and Anglia Ruskin Universities
3)Nasser Hussain - Durham
4)Ian Sailisbury
5)Pope
6) Dropped Lara on 18 (he went on to get 501!)
7)Surname Pringle (Derek and Chris)
8) Nawab of Pataudi
9) Medicine
10)stumped
11) Hammond; robbins; allen (Gubby)

[Jmd]

1) Jamie Dalrymple
2)
3) Wally Hammond
4) Ian Peebles
5)
6) Dropped Lara on 0 in his 501* innings.
7) First name? Dereks Pringle and Randall
8) Nawab of Pataudi
9) Banking?
10)
11) Freddy Brown, Percy Chapman, Bob Wyatt