Cumann na mBunscol Thír Eoghain TABLE QUIZ 2019 for teams of 4

The annual Quiz is taking place in a number of Tyrone school venues today. The teams with the top two scores in the county will go forward to the Finals 14 March - held in Hillgrove, Monaghan. Reg 11am Quiz 11.30am

There are 10 rounds with 6 questions in each round.

*All teams are to be asked the tie-breaker question. The answer to this question should be kept by the host school. This answer may have to be used by us to separate schools with the same scores in the various heats and can also be used, on the day, to decide the winners of heats in case of a tie.

Please email me your:  top 2 schools & their scores  top 2 schools’ tie-breaker answer. Also, send a photo of these top 2 teams from your heat including medal winners.

*MAX Score: 60 [10 x 6] – Do not include tie-breaker answer in final score

Rounds 7 and 8 need to be photocopied or printed for each team.

Ádh mór!

ROUND 1

1 Who are the current Senior All-Ireland Hurling champions? (Limerick)

2 Which city is situated on the banks of the River Lee? (Cork)

3 Last year two Tyrone players received All-Star awards for men’s football, Colm Cavanagh was one, who was the other? (Padraig Hampsey)

4 Who is the current president of the GAA? (John Horan)

5 Which type of triangle has two equal sides and two equal angles? (Isosceles)

6 is in which Connacht town? (Sligo)

ROUND 2

1 Which county in Ulster has the highest population? (Antrim)

2 Who was the only Tyrone player to win a Ladies All-Star award in 2018? (Neamh Woods)

3 Lough Corrib is in Mayo and which other Connacht county? (Galway)

4 Who are the current Munster Senior Hurling Champions? (Cork)

5 With which sport do you associate Shane Lowry? (Golf)

6 Seamus Callahan plays hurling with which county? (Tipperary)

ROUND 3

1 Which Irish saint was credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland? (Saint Colmcille) [accept Columbkille etc..]

2 Tyrone player Rory Brennan plays for which club in Tyrone? (Trillick St. Macartan’s)

3 Gary Lightbody and Jonny Quinn are in which Irish band? (Snow Patrol)

4 Which county won the 2018 Ladies All-Ireland Intermediate Championship in Football? (Tyrone)

5 Eoghan Ban Gallagher plays football for which county? (Donegal)

6 Which county has won the men’s Ulster Senior Football championship most often? (Cavan) [37 times]

ROUND 4

1 Who is the President of Ireland? (Michael D. Higgins) [D for Daniel]

2 County Carlow teams play in jerseys which have three colours, green and yellow and what other colour? (Red)

3 Derry man Shane Duffy plays for which premiership team? (Brighton)

4 Who are the current men’s Tyrone Senior Football champions? (Coalisland Fianna)

5 The town of Thurles is in which county? (Tipperary)

6 Which team are the current men’s Ulster Senior club football champions? (Gweedore)

ROUND 5

1 What is the most southerly point in Ireland? (Mizen Head)

2 What number do you get when you multiply the product of the first two prime numbers by the number of counties in Munster? (36) [Prime numbers 2,3: x6 Munster counties Ck, Cl, Tp, Ky, Lim, Wat]

3 In which county would you find the Marble Arch caves? (Fermanagh)

4 Which Irish actress stars in the film Mary Queen of Scots? (Saoirse Ronan)

5 Which county knocked Tyrone out of the 2018 Ulster Senior Football championship? (Monaghan) [Healy Park Qtr-Final]

6 Which river runs through the city of Waterford? (Suir) [pronounced ‘sure’]

ROUND 6

1 What megalithic site in County Meath is older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian Pyramids? (Newgrange)

2 Who is the Dublin footballer involved in Dancing with the Stars in 2019? (Denis Bastick)

3 How many All-Ireland Senior Hurling Titles have Kilkenny won? 35 or 36? (36)

4 What is the name of the Irish language TV station which shows GAA Beo? (TG4)

5 In which county would you find the Seamus Heaney centre? (County Derry)

6 If you were watching a programme on RTE called Nuacht, what would you be watching? (The News)

ROUND 7

Try to un-jumble the letters to find the names of Irish people or places in Ireland

Example BUDNIL (a City in Leinster)

D U B L I N

1 ARTA (Where the High Kings Lived)

______

2 DWXOFRE (Viking Town in S.E. Ireland)

3 YRRO SBTE (Ulster and Ireland Player)

4 REYNW (City in County Down”)

5 SHPRUTRO (2019 Open Championship Venue)

6 RGT AI NON (Mythical Land of the Youth)

Answers to Round 7

1 Tara

2 Wexford

3 Rory Best

4 Newry

5 Portrush

6 Tír na nÓg ROUND 8

PICTURE ROUND

Name these six people or places

1 2

3 4

5 6 ANSWERS TO ROUND 8

1 Dean Rock 2 Gemma Begley

3 Giant’s Causeway 4 Niall Horan

5 Healy Park, 6 Johnny Sexton

ROUND 9

1 Belfast man Carl Frampton is a former Wold Champion in which sport? (Boxing)

2 Who are the current Munster Senior Hurling Champions? (Cork)

3 True or False: there is only one city in the province of Connacht? (True) [Galway]

4 The city of Belfast is situated in two counties. Name these counties. (Antrim and Down)

5 Who are the current All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Champions? (Dublin)

6 What cliffs in County Clare are one of Ireland’s most popular tourist attractions? (Cliffs of Moher)

ROUND 10

1 Which town sits where Upper and Lower Lough Erne meet? (Enniskillen)

2 Who are the current Tyrone division 2 champions? (Tattyreagh St. Patrick’s)

3 Was it the Vikings or the Normans who built castles throughout Ireland? (Normans)

4 How many square centimetres are there in a square metre? (10,000)

5 What county is known as the “Orchard County”? (Armagh)

6 In the story of the Children of Lír, what was Aoife turned into after her father discovered what she had done to Lír’s children? (A Witch or demon of the air)

TIE BREAKER QUESTION (For ALL teams)

Team with the closest answer wins. (above or below)

*See instructions on opening page

How many All-Ireland SF finals have Kerry men participated in? (59)

2nd Tie Breaker (only to be used, if necessary, to decide winner and runner -up in heat)

What is the capacity of Parc Ui Chaoimh in Cork? (45,000)