Faster than a speeding bullet: answers
November 26, 2010 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
Here are the answers to the questions I posted yesterday in Faster than a speeding bullet.
There’ll be more posts over the weekend as I’m off out quizzing tonight. Huzzah!
And introducing a new feature…
Things I learned at this quiz (but my team-mates already knew):
- Teddy Roosevelt is the USA’s youngest President.
- The Guns of Navarone was written b Alastair MacLean
Answers:
- In which county can you find the town of Ardagh? A> Longford
- In which county is Devil’s Bit mountain? A> Tipperary
- Name the year: Cork is European Capital of Culture, TD Ray Burke serves time in jail, Hedgehunter won the Aintree Grand National. A> 2005
- What type of animal is an Albacore? A> Fish (it’s also known as Longfin Tuna)
- What is the name of the Dublin councillor who recently threw paint over Minister for Health Mary Harney? A> Louise Minihan
- How did Albanian Adriatik Vodo make front page news in Ireland this month? A> He was involved in an ‘incident’ outside the National Stadium with Steve Collins
- William Shakepeare’s play Measure for Measure is set in which city? A> Vienna
- What is the name of the Samoan equivalent of New Zealand’s Haka dance? A> Siva Tau
- Jean-Claude Juncker is Prime Minister of which country? A> Luxembourg
- Whose autobiography is entitled How the boy next door turned out? A> Diarmuid Gavin
Mount Tumbledown can be found in which island chain? A> Falkland Islands- Which London football club were founded in 1886 as Dial Square? A> Arsenal
Picture round:
- John Hurt
- Tom Watson
- Romano Prodi
- Helena Bonham Carter
- J.M. Synge
- Shane Horgan
- Harold Macmillan
- Boris Becker
- Reg Empey
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Willie Penrose
- Trevor Sargent
- Alan Dukes
- Dick Cheney
- Bill O’Herlihy
- William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns
- Gay Mitchell
- W.E. Gladstone
Hope you didn’t do too badly there. Talk soon!
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