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Just a minute with Larry Gogan

Posted in Quiz Show, tagged , , , , , , on September 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »

For some time now I’ve been trying to come up with an idea for a quiz. A quiz that no-one else has thought of. A quiz that will be entertaining, easy to grasp and challenging at the same time. A quiz that, once it’s initially successful, will not fade in the public’s affections and will [...]

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All-Ireland Quiz: End of the road

Posted in All-Ireland Quiz, Quizzes, tagged , , , , , on October 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »

For those who didn’t manage to listen in to Today FM for yesterday’s match in the Ray D’Arcy Show All-Ireland Quiz, I’m sorry to report that my team, Universally Challenged, were defeated by 4 pts. It was a tough defeat, as we only lost one of the three rounds. Alas, it was the 1v1 buzzer [...]

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All-Ireland Quiz on-air

Posted in All-Ireland Quiz, Quizzes, tagged , , , , , , on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s now less than 24 hours until our team, Universally Challenged, will be live, on national radio, for our knockout round of the Ray D’Arcy Show All-Ireland Quiz. If you’d like to hear how we get on, or even just want to know what I sound like, then tune in to Today FM (that’s 100-102 [...]

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Quality All-Ireland Quiz: Video

Posted in All-Ireland Quiz, Quizzes, tagged , , , , , , on September 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A final post on last week’s Sligo qualifier for the All-Ireland Quiz.  Here’s a short video I recorded as Ray D’Arcy announced the final scores.

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Quality All-Ireland Quiz: Answers

Posted in All-Ireland Quiz, Quizzes, tagged , , , , , , on September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Here are the answers to the 10 questions I posted earlier in the Quality All-Ireland Quiz article. I was listening to the show this morning and Ray revealed that the questions were written by the same man who did them for Blackboard Jungle (the quiz show, not the movie), back in the day. That’s kinda [...]

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Quality All-Ireland Quiz

Posted in All-Ireland Quiz, Quizzes, tagged , , , , , on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The opening round of the Ray D’Arcy Show All-Ireland Quiz took place in Sligo last night with myself and my team-mates in attendance. The aim of the night was to find four teams who would then go through to 1v1 knockout rounds, live on Today FM, in October.  I’m delighted to say that you’ll be hearing [...]

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Sign up for the All-Ireland Quiz

Posted in All-Ireland Quiz, Quizzes, tagged , , , on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Ray D’Arcy show on Today FM are organising an All-Ireland (table) quiz, with up to 200 teams taking part over four qualifying heats, on-air quarter and semi-finals and a live final on Friday 23rd October.  For more information, check out www.todayfm.com The four qualifiers take place in Sligo, Cork, Dublin and Kilkenny, with a [...]

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Dave Fanning talks table quizzes

Posted in Discussion, tagged , , , on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

By complete chance I listened in to Dave Fanning‘s show on Radio 1 on Monday night. It’s not that I’ve anything against the man, it’s just that the radio in our kitchen is normally tuned to Newstalk at that hour. It must have been one of those quirks of fate as the topic for the [...]

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Irish Soccer clips answers

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , , , , on April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Just in time for the Italy game, here are the names of the players who scored in the three audio clips posted earlier in the week.  Or rather scored immediately after the three audio clips. I’ve also put together some photos to illustrate the answers! Click more… to see who’s who.

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Drivetime Sport’s Irish Soccer clips

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , , , on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Somebody behind the scenes at Drivetime Sport on Radio One must be a quizzing fan. Perhaps it’s Des Cahill himself?  Where other shows would have one simple question and a phone number, competitions on RTÉ’s early evening show tend to engage the brain and the trivia gland. Last week, in the buildup to the Irish [...]

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