CUMANN na MBUNSCOL TABLE QUIZ 2016 FOR TEAMS OF FOUR

The quiz will be comprised of 10 rounds each with six questions. A set of tie-breaker questions is included to help determine the winner in each venue on the day.

The Quiz is taking place at a number of venues in Tyrone today. The schools with the top four scores in the county will go forward to represent Tyrone in the Ulster Final in Letterkenny on Monday 14th March.

Round 7 and Round 8 need to be photocopied for the teams.

ROUND 1

1 Which county won the Dr McKenna Cup in 2016? (Tyrone)

2 How many counties are in the province of Munster? (six)

3 Who is the current Manager the Derry Senior Football Team? (Damian Barton)

4 Who were the 2015 All Ireland Ladies Senior Football champions? (Cork)

5 Who are the current Tyrone Grade 1 Minor Football champions? (Moortown)

6 Which river flows through Cork? (River Lee)

ROUND 2

1 Five Ulster counties have a shoreline on Lough Neagh, - Antrim, Armagh, Down and Tyrone are four of them, what is the name of the missing county? (Derry)

2 In which County in Munster would you find the town of Tralee? (Co Kerry)

3 Who is the current GAA President? (Aogan O Fearghail)

4 Which county knocked Tyrone out of the 2015 All Ireland Senior Football Championship? (Kerry)

5 Who captained to win the 2015 All Ireland Senior Football Final? (Stephen Cluxton)

6 In what colours do the Tipperary county teams play? (Blue and yellow or gold)

ROUND 3

1 Which county in Ireland has the largest population? (Dublin )

2 Dungiven is a town of which Ulster county? (Derry)

3 How many days are there in the first three months of this year? (91)

4 Which Irish actress was nominated for an academy award in 2016 for the film Brooklyn? (Saoirse Ronan)

5 In which year did Donegal last win the All Ireland Senior Football Final? (2012)

6 Spell the word executive?

ROUND 4

1 Which team are the current Munster Senior Hurling Champions? (Tipperary)

2 Which member of the band One Direction is Irish? (Niall Horan)

3 Which Irish Saints Feast Day falls on February 1st? (St Brigid)

4 Which team were beaten in the 2014 All Ireland Senior Football Final? (Donegal)

5 How many balls are there in a game of snooker? Is it 20, 21 or 22? (22) – 15 reds; 6 colours and the cue-ball.

6 With which sport would you associate Joseph O’Brien? (Horse Racing)

ROUND 5

1 Newry is a town in which Ulster County? (Down)

2 Paul Geaney plays football with which county? (Kerry)

3 Which county won the Clarke Cup in 2015? (Tyrone All-Ireland under 21 Football Championship)

4 What is the name of the highest mountain in Ulster? (Slieve Donard)

5 What number do you get when you multiply the number of days in February this year by the number of sides in a heptagon? (203) – [Heptagon 7 sides x 29 days]

6 Paddy Jackson plays which sport for Ulster and Ireland? (Rugby Union) ROUND 6

1 Who captained Tyrone Under 21s to All Ireland success in 2015) (Kieran McGeary)

2 In the story of the Children of Lir, how many children did Lir have? (4)

3 Who is the current manager of the Clare Senior Hurling team? (Davy Fitzgerald)

4 Which Irish boxer beat Scott Quigg to win the WBA and IBF World Super- Bantamweight titles (Carl Frampton)

5 Who wrote the book ‘In Deep Dark Wood’? (Marita Conlon McKenna)

6 Bealtaine is the Irish name for which month of the year? (May)

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 WOSCNKOTO (a town in Tyrone)

2 OCNRO SCUMNAM (a Monaghan footballer)

3 AAGLN (an Ulster River)

4 MLRTIEI (County with the smallest population)

5 RWOBAR (Second longest River in Ireland)

6 NHCCIALUU (Mythical Hound of Ulster)

Answers to Round 7

1 Cookstown

2 Conor McManus

3 Lagan

4, Leitrim

5 Barrow

6, Cuchulain ROUND 8

PICTURE ROUND

Name these six people

1 2

3 4

5 6 ANSWERS TO ROUND 8

1 Conor McGregor 2 Hozier

3 Joe Canning 4 Imelda May

5 Tiernan McCann 6 Domhnall Gleeson

ROUND 9

1 In which year did Tyrone first win the Ulster Senior Football Championship: Was it 1955, 1956 or 1957? (1956)

2 Which is the largest city in the Province of Connaught? (Galway)

3 In which town would you find Semple Stadium? (Thurles)

4 Who is the Tyrone man who will the European Golf team in this year’s Rider Cup? (Darren Clarke)

5 For which Premiership team does forward Shane Long play? (Southampton)

6 Which team are the current Tyrone Intermediate Football Champions? (Edendork St Malachy’s)

ROUND 10

1 Tyrone star Damian Casey plays hurling with which club? (Dungannon Eoghan Ruadh)

2 Cora Staunton plays football with which county? (Mayo)

3 Which team did Tyrone defeat in the 2015 All Ireland under 21 Football Final? (Tipperary)

4 Who is the current captain of the Irish International Rugby team? (Rory Best)

5 The name of how many counties in Ireland begins with the letter ‘W’? (4) - Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

6 Which County won the 2015 All Ireland Senior Camogie Final? (Cork)

TIE-BREAKER ROUND

Ask one question, team with the correct answer wins. If no result, move on to next question. Question 3 can be used as a ‘nearest to’ decider (+ or -)

TIE-BREAKER

 How many Ladies All-Star Awards has Cora Staunton? (10)

 How many Senior Football All-Ireland titles do Dublin have? (25) [Kerry lead the way with 37!!]

 What is the official crowd capacity of St. Tiernach’s Park, Clones? (36,000)