8:39am Saturday 6th February 2010
THE winner of Superbrain 2009 is, for the second year in succession, Ian Dodds, a 51-year-old civil servant with the Government Office North East.
Mr Dodds, from Low Fell, Gateshead, scored a magnificent 293 out of 300 in the North-East’s toughest trivia quiz, which appeared in the paper at Christmas.
It was set by former Superbrain champions David Chisholm and Dave Tucker. Mr Dodds was six points ahead of his nearest rival, Sandi Wood, from Darlington. He said: “The quiz had a lot of tricky questions where you had to read carefully.”
He also succeeded where many failed by identifying picture nine in the North- East round as Catherine Booth, the “mother of the Salvation Army”.
Mr Dodds said: “I recognised her uniform as Salvation Army, but I could not find anything on the internet.
“A colleague is in the Salvation Army, but the picture meant nothing to her. So she showed it to someone who rang someone in London, who went along to the Salvation Army archive.”
Winners were: First – Ian Dodds, £250; second – Sandi Wood, £100; literature round – Sandi Wood, £25; TV/film – Ian Dodds, £25; North-East – Karen Bowman, Shildon, £25; general knowledge – Irene Moore, Marton, £25; pop – A Mason, Spennymoor, £25; sport – Anthony Gold, Sunderland, £25; and pictures – John Deller, Shincliffe, £25.
Luke Newell, from Wrexham, won £50 for the highest score for an entrant outside the region.
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