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Wed 31-Dec-2008 12:20
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Emmet Moloney
Know your sport? 'Irish Farmers' Journal' Quiz
Emmet Moloney writes for the 'Farmers Journal' and is a former sports columnist with 'The Kerryman'.
Would you like All-Ireland Final tickets? How well do you know your GAA? Some questions are easy, more are difficult – and there’s a trick question in there. Emmet Moloney does the asking. Can you find the answers?
We have a pair of All-Ireland hurling and football final tickets to give away to two lucky Farmers Journal readers. To be in with a chance of winning the tickets, simply send your answers, numbered 1-50, by email to
cl@farmersjournal.ie
or by post to Country Living Sports Quiz, Irish Farmers Journal, Irish Farm Centre, Bluebell, Dublin 12 by no later than Friday, 9 January 2009.
1 How many senior All-Ireland hurling titles have Kilkenny won?
2 Who won the All-Ireland minor hurling title in 2008?
3 Who won the 2008 Leinster Football Final?
4 Name the All-Star hurling goalkeeper in 2007.
5 Who won the All-Ireland senior hurling title in 1981?
6 Who was Waterford’s highest scorer against Clare in the first round of the Munster Hurling Championship in 2008?
7 Who was the leading scorer in the All-Ireland Football Final between Dublin and Armagh in 1977?
8 Name the incoming GAA President who begins his term at Congress in 2009.
9 Who scored Cork’s only goal in the 1977 All-Ireland Hurling Final?
10 How many senior All-Ireland football titles have Tyrone won?
11 Who were Cork playing in the Hurling Final of 1977?
12 In the Leinster Hurling Final of 1976, the losing county scored just 0-6. Name the county.
13 How many All-Stars did Christy Ring win?
14 Who was the Clare goalkeeper in the 1989 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Final?
15 Who scored the only goal in the All-Ireland Football Final of 1982?
16 Name the home club of Galway star Joe Canning.
17 Who was Clare’s first ever All-Star?
18 Who scored the equalising point for Meath in the drawn 1996 All-Ireland Football Final?
19 Complete the sequence from 1997: Kerry, Cork, Tipperary, Kilkenny ...
20 What county did Gerald McCarthy manage directly before taking over the Cork hurlers in 2006?
21 Who captained Louth to win the 1957 All-Ireland Football Final?
22 Who won the 1987 National Hurling League title?
23 How many Railway Cup titles did Christy Ring win?
24 What was the first year of the “back-door” system in hurling? (The first year the losing Munster and Leinster finalists were allowed re-enter the championship.)
25 Name the year the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final last finished level.
26 Niall Quinn played in the 1983 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Final. But for which county?
27 In the epic All-Ireland football semi-final between Dublin and Kerry in 1977, who scored Kerry’s goal?
28 In what year did Cavan last win the Ulster Senior Football Championship?
29 Over the past 40 years only two All-Ireland Senior Hurling Finals have finished goalless. They involved the same two counties. Name them.
30 Who won the 2008 Munster U-21 Hurling Championship?
31 Who was named RTÉ Man of the Match in the 2008 All-Ireland Hurling Final?
32 Who was full-forward on the Hurling Team of the Millennium?
33 There were two Ulster men named on the Football Team of the Millennium. JJ O’Reilly (Cavan) was one, name the other.
34 Which player has won the most senior All-Ireland hurling medals?
35 Only one set of twins have won All-Stars. Name them.
36 “Bobby Doyle, the tension and the anxiety of the whole lot of them. David Hickey now. This is Tony Hanahoe. In now to ... he’s in front of the goal. He can’t miss. He hasn’t.” – Micheál O’Hehir. Who scored Dublin’s third goal in the epic 1977 All-Ireland Semi-Final?
37 What colour was Brian Lohan’s talismanic helmet?
38 Which current inter-county manager was captain of Kerry when they won the 1975 All-Ireland Football Championship?
39 How many National Hurling League titles have Offaly won?
40 Which county knocked Tipperary out of the 1993 Senior Hurling Championship?
41 Roscommon scored early and often in the 1980 All-Ireland Football Final. But who got their only goal?
42 In what year did Limerick last win the All-Ireland senior hurling title?
43 Where was the third episode of the dramatic Clare/Offaly hurling semi-final saga of 1998 played?
44 Who won the 2008 National Hurling League title?
45 Who has been named Kilkenny senior hurling captain for 2009?
46 The last time the All-Ireland Football Final was drawn was in the year 2000. Kerry won the replay. Against which county?
47 Who scored Galway’s first goal in the 1980 All-Ireland Hurling Final?
48 Who was named 2008 Young Hurler of the Year?
49 The 1984 All-Ireland Hurling Final was played in Thurles. It was the first time since 1937 that an All-Ireland Hurling Final was played outside Croke Park. Where was that final played?
50 Padraig Harrington’s father Ger played in the 1956 All-Ireland football final against Galway. But for which county?
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