Upgrade from 1.9.10 to 2.0 RC1. Upgrade process gets stuck on upgrading qtype_multichoice

Debug info: Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '<div class="text_to_html">1</d' to data type int.
UPDATE mdl_question SET name = ? WHERE qtype = 'random' AND category = ? AND CONVERT(varchar, questiontext, 32) = ?
[array (
0 => 'Random (Default for 4th Form Biology Resources)',
1 => '27',
2 => '0',
)]
Stack trace:
line 394 of \lib\dml\moodle_database.php: dml_write_exception thrown
line 247 of \lib\dml\mssql_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 1016 of \lib\dml\mssql_native_moodle_database.php: call to mssql_native_moodle_database->query_end()
line 46 of \question\type\multichoice\db\upgrade.php: call to mssql_native_moodle_database->set_field_select()
line 358 of \lib\upgradelib.php: call to xmldb_qtype_multichoice_upgrade()
line 1352 of \lib\upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 302 of \admin\index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()

unable to fix at this time (bypassed to test)

information:

The varchar value '<div class="text_to_html">1</d' is the first 32 characters of the database field questiontext. I am unsure why the array being passed is trying to match the question text to '0'