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A few more.
On farty one?
Miss womanly?
Old west action?
Very less tall on set?
Im palace balls worker?
Whose bugger?

comedians?

A term that could loosely be applied to 1, 2 & 6!

A few more.
On farty one?
Miss womanly?
Old west action?
Very less tall on set?
Im palace balls worker?
Whose bugger?

John, you're an inspiration!

Lads, we should all club together & take him out for a few drinks on his return.

In a slightly disturbing development the police have contacted all the GAA clubs & a number of pubs in the Lurgan/Portadown area advising them to tighten up their security arrangements.

Hopefully just a precaution. Id imagine all potential "targets" on both sides have got something similar.

It probably is. Some clubs have also been told not to use the facilities at the rugby club & council owned pitches.

In a slightly disturbing development the police have contacted all the GAA clubs & a number of pubs in the Lurgan/Portadown area advising them to tighten up their security arrangements.

Great stuff, could have been a cricket score but for Casillas. Can we produce something similar on Saturday?

What's going on here John?
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Currently reading Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East and The Coronation by Boris Akunin.

I read The Name of the Rose a good while ago, it was tough going!

Another Irish connection, Aaron McCusker who plays Jamie Maguire is from Portadown.

Vera is Tony's mother.

Great cross, well taken goal by benny.

Round 1

1   Q. Who is the Dublin football manager?

A. Pat Gilroy
2   Q. Who is the Dublin hurling manager?

A. Anthony Daly
3   Q. How many players are there on an ice hockey team?

A. 6
4   Q. Who philosophically captained Brazil in the 1986 World Cup?

A. Socrates
5   Q. How old must fillies be to enter the 1000 Guineas?

A. 3
6   Q. Which horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup for 3 successive years from 1964?

A. Arkle
7   Q. In cricket what were bowlers who took three wickets in a row originally rewarded with?

A. A hat (hence hat-trick)
8   Q. Who is the oldest ever winner of the men's 100M at the Olympics?

A. Linford Christie (Barcelona 1992)
9   Q. In croquet if your balls are red and yellow what colour are your opponent's balls?

A. Black and blue
10   Q. Russian airline Aeroflot sponsored which county hurling team in the 1990s?

A. Clare (1992-3 Aeroflot were based at Shannon Airport)


Round 2

1   Q. Who rode Aldiniti to victory in the 1981 Grand National?

A. Bob Champion
2   Q. How many players are there on a netball team?

A. 7
3   Q. For which Australian Rules club does Setanta Ó hAilpín play?

A. Carlton
4   Q. Who resigned as Offaly manager at the weekend after just 5 weeks in charge?

A. Richie Connor
5   Q. John Barnes was appointed coach of which international side in September 2008?

A. Jamaica
6   Q. Who did, the now retired, Joe Calzaghe defeat in October 1997 to win the WBO super-middleweight championship? (Bonus point how many fights did he win?)

A. Chris Eubank (46)
7   Q. How many tennis grand slams has Roger Federer won?

A. 13 (one less than Pete Sampras)
8   Q. Who in 1985 scored the first televised English league hat-trick?

A. Ian Rush
9   Q. Who is the only man to win hurling and football All-stars in the same year?

A. Ray Cummins (Cork 1971)
10   Q. Which horse, with a name that sounds as if it came from the Portadown area, won the 1903 Grand National?

A. Drumcree


Round 3

1   Q. Which team has won the Super Bowl the most times?

A. Pittsburgh Steelers (6)
2   Q. Which metric distance is run over 1,321.4 feet?

A. 400M
3   Q. Which Russian goalkeeper was European footballer of the year in 1963?

A. Lev Yashin
4   Q. Which team won the Scottish League for the first time in 1983?

A. Dundee United
5   Q. How many fences are there on the Grand National course at Aintree?

A. 16
6   Q. What did Tom Morris senior and junior win between them 8 times out of the first 12?

A. The Open Golf Championship
7   Q. What does TT stand for in motorcycle racing?

A. Tourist Trophy
8   Q. Who were the only three boxers to beat Muhammad Ali in world title fights?

A. Joe Frazier, Leon Spinks and Larry Holmes
9   Which former Premiership manager was manager of the Kuwait football team when Iraq invaded the country in 1990?

A. Luiz Felipe Scolari
10   Q. Which jockey's 2008 autobiography was titled "Better than sex"?

A. Mick Fitzgerald



Round 4

1   Q. Who rode Shergar to victory in the 1981 Derby?

A. Walter Swinburn
2   Q. Which English club knocked Liverpool out of the European Cup in 1978?

A. Nottingham Forest
3   Q. What Irishman played for the British and Irish Lions a record 17 times?

A. Willie John McBride
4   Q. Who was the oldest ever Olympic Pentathlon winner?

A. Mary Peters (Munich 1972 – now the heptathlon)
5   Q. Which two legendary managers both managed Leeds for exactly 44 days?

A. Jock Stein and Brian Clough
6   Q. In cricket what is the term for an off break bowled with a leg break action?

A. Googly
7   Q. What sport do the Philadelphia Flyers play?

A. Ice Hockey
8   Q. Who interrupted Eric Bristow's run by winning the World dart's championship in 1982?

A. Jocky "the body from Kirkcaldy" Wilson
9   Q. The Munster club football champions Drumcollogher/Broadford come from which county?

A. Limerick
10   Q. Which Spanish city is home to the La Liga team Espanyol?

A. Barcelona



Round 5

1   Q. Which horse gave Tony McCoy his 3,000th winner?

A. Restless D'Artaix
2   Q. In Rugby Union which two countries play for the Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy?

A. Italy and France
3   Q. What is the total of the numbers at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock on a dartboard?

A. 40 (20, 6, 3, 11)
4   Q. Who are the only two boxers to have beaten Lennox Lewis?

A. Oliver McCall & Hasim Rahman
5   Q. Who is the Ulster GAA President?

A. Tom Daly
6   Q. Which country's team always leads the procession at the opening of the Summer Olympics?

A. Greece
7   Q. Who broke his own record of 5 seconds for the fastest booking in English soccer when he was booked after 3 seconds of an FA Cup 5th round match in 1992?

A. Vinnie Jones (Chelsea – Sheff Utd – the ball hadn't left the centre circle)
8   Q. Which of the following wasn't an Olympic sport: live pigeon shooting, one handed weightlifting, golf, sack race or cliff diving?

A. Cliff diving (live pigeon shooting – Paris 1900, one handed weightlifting – Athens 1896, golf & sack race – St Louis 1904)
9   Q. Which country won its first World Cup in 1954?

A. West Germany
10   Q. Name the only club to beat Crossmaglen more than once in the Ulster Club Football Championship?

A. Errigal Ciaran



Round 6

1   Q. Name the only two players to win Inter-provincial medals in hurling and football over the last 25 years? (Both still playing)

A. Seán Óg Ó hAilpín (Cork) and Conal Keaney (Dublin)
2   Q. Which English team were voted European team of the year in 1981?

A. Ipswich Town
3   Q. What are the only two nations to have made a clean sweep of all the Olympic boxing golds in one games?

A. USA (St Louis 1904 – only American boxers competed!) & Britain (London 1908)
4   Q. Which two countries contested the first international football match?

A. Scotland – England (30/11/1872 0-0)
5   Q. There was a cricket match played at Old Trafford in July 1863 between a one armed team and a one legged team. Who won?

A. The one legged team (21 runs over two innings)
6   Q. In what year did Ulster win the Heineken Cup?

A. 1999 (beat Colomiers 21-6 January 30th Lansdowne Road)
7   Q. The Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces is a famous ex GAA player and inter-county manager. Who is he?

A. Dermot Early senior
8   Q. At which Olympics did Hugh Russell win a boxing bronze for Ireland?

A. Moscow (1980)
9   Q. Who was the last Scotsman to win the Football Writers Association Player of the Year Award in England?

A. Gordon Strachan (Leeds 1991)
10   Q. Which country qualified for the 1950 World Cup but were not allowed to take part because their players insisted on going barefoot?

A. India


Round 7

1   Q. In the last 10 years two hurlers have won the hurler of the year even though their county didn't play in an All-Ireland final. Name them?

A. Tony Browne (1998) & Dan Shanahan (2007)
2   Q. What did a Bolton Wanderers fan throw in front of Wolves manager Graham Taylor in 1995 to incur a £60 fine?

A. A turnip
3   Q. Which of the following actually won the Grand National: Queer Fellow, Gay Lad or Raging Homo?

A. Gay Lad (ridden by Tom Oliver in 1842 7/1f)
4   Q. What did Arsenal and Chelsea have on 25th August 1925 that no other team did?

A. Numbered shirts
5   Q. Name the player who played in the 2007 Inter-provincial football semi-final before he had made his senior inter-county Championship debut?

A. Tommy Walsh (Kerry)
6   Q. Which outdoor team sport is played on the largest pitch to have a goal at either end?

A. Polo
7   Q. Which team won the European Cup in 1982 making it 6 in a row for English clubs?

A. Aston Villa
8   Q. In what test of strength did Britain win all 3 medals at the 1908 Olympics?

A. Tug of war
9   Q. The first ever international sporting contest was a cricket match played in 1844 between which two countries?

A. USA & Canada (New York 25-27 September 1844. Canada won by 23 runs)
10   Q. Of the 12 original members of the Football League in 1888 six are in the Premiership. Name them?

A. Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Everton, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion (the other 6 are Burnley, Derby Co, Notts Co, Preston, Wolves and Accrington Stanley)

Both right corn.
The winning team scored something like 75 out of a possible 90.
If I get a chance I'll put the answers up later.

David
Round 1 8/10
Round 2 7/11
Round 3 9/12
Round 4 7/11
R&gs
Round 5 4/11
Round 6 3/12
Round 7 3/16

Im disappointed with round 3 I thought i got them all right except the last one.  What other two did i get wrong?

Wrong on 4, 5 & 10

David
Round 1 8/10
Round 2 7/11
Round 3 9/12
Round 4 7/11
R&gs
Round 5 4/11
Round 6 3/12
Round 7 3/16