I was under the impression that the Black Sea ports did ice over during the worst of the winter; if that’s not true, then the “one port” part of the question becomes invalid.
That question to one side, you make one false assumption in your analysis. 
Polycarp, *spelt * is given as the preferred form of the past participle of the verb *to spell * in the two dictionaries sitting on my desk that I have just checked (the *Concise Oxford Dictionary * and the Macquarie Dictionary).
By the way (as a hijack) - happy feast day. I sang at a mass for Australia Day this morning (26 January), which was also the feast of Saint Polycarp.
Interesting! I’m of course American, but thought I was aware of such variants. Oh well – let’s see what Peter has to say about the answers to date.
Thanks!! In America the feast is February 23. Happy Australia Day!!
Yes. The trick being that the answer everyone “knows” isn’t correct actually is. 
Archangelsk, Arctic Ocean (White Sea), the Gulf Stream. Although as others have noted, I suspect Sevastapol and Vladivostok do not usually ice over.
No correct answers so far. This is a trick question, remember.
Cunctator, are you sure that meter isn’t correct spelling?
*Meter *is correct for a measuring device, such as a water meter. The unit of length is also spelt *meter *in the US, but *metre *everywhere else.
As **Askance ** has said, it depends which word you mean. With no other information, I would always assume that *meter * referred to the unit of length. If so, I’d say that the spelling *meter * is incorrect, with the correct spelling being metre. If you’re referring to the measuring device then yes, *meter * is the correct spelling.
*Meter *is correct in the US for the unit of measurement, although I admit it hurts my eyes to see it.
No to Archangelsk – but you’ve got the right idea!!
Ah! Obviously, it’s the word just before the colon, which is of course spelt “wrongly”!!
Baring trick questions like Presidents under Articles of Confederation or that speaker of the house who was president for a day when the elected one refused to take his oath of office on a Sunday, the answer would be 41. Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and thus is given two numbers.
Right idea, wrong port. Murmansk.
The only trick question I can think of is this:
In which city is the University of Warwick?
Here’s the way I heard it. We were talking about the Articles of Confederation in class.
My History teacher, Mr. K: This makes a good bar bet. You ask someone who was the first president of the United States and they’ll say George Washington, but they’ll be wrong. Before the current U.S. government was developed, the government under the articles had a different president.
Some kid: So who WAS the first?
Mr. K: I don’t even remember. The president really had almost no power at all, so his name is extremely obscure.
So before I posted, I checked the ever-reliable (;)) Wikipedia and found out that “Samuel Huntington was an American jurist, statesman, and revolutionary leader from Connecticut. He served as … the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled.”
Anyway, Samuel Huntington was the one I had in mind, but thanks for that link. Looks like there are (at least) three contenders for the title. Consider yourself a valiant warrior in the War On Ignorance.
Coventry.
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You’re on a ship in Atlantic Ocean. Your ship travels East until it reaches the Pacific Ocean. About how many miles did you travel?
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My bra size is 34B. The number is the band size, and the letter refers to the cup size. How long in inches is the band on my bra?
Correct
This is a Panama Canal poser. My guess is about 20 miles.
More like 50, but you got the important part.
What is the name of the Pope’s cathedral church in Rome?
isn’t it just called “the pope’s cathedral”?
how many us states are entirely south of canada?