Well, if you do, you’re in luck because The Last Word on Today FM kicked off their new weekly quiz, The Last Word of the Week, last Friday.  It will take the form of a head-to-head quiz between a member of the public and a celebrity.

Anyone can enter, via this handy online form, but you will have to come up with a good answer to why you want to be a contestant (in 50 words or less). I wonder if my opening paragraph would suffice…

To get the ball rolling, last Friday saw an initial quiz-off between Fintan O’Toole and Joe O’Shea – a heavyweight pairing to be sure.  That said, the person you’d expect to win, does.

You can listen for yourself by clicking on More…

I’m counting down the days until this Friday’s Habitat for Humanity charity quiz in Brandon’s Bar, Ennis, Co. Clare.  Hopefully it will be  a great night and raise loads for a very worthy charity.

Paddy Jordan will be providing entertainment on the night with a live music set after the quiz has finished. He may also be helping out with one of the rounds of the quiz! More details as the week progresses…

I’ll also be posting some info on how the rounds will be structured and offering a few clues as to the round names. “Full Multimedia rounds” is not an idle boast. This will be a different type of quiz from the norm (around these parts). Busy week ahead for the blog!

You can click on the poster above to see the full version.  Yes, that is my mug in the bottom corner and no, this was not my design!

That said, it might come in handy. People will know they haven’t walked in to the wrong quiz when they see me standing there…

]]> http://tablequiz.net/2009/03/counting-down-to-friday/feed/ 0 http://tablequiz.net/2009/01/gaa-golden-ticket/ http://tablequiz.net/2009/01/gaa-golden-ticket/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:59:16 +0000 John Nolan http://tablequiz.wordpress.com/?p=286 RTÉ Sport and the GAA are giving away a ‘Golden Season Ticket’ this week on Drivetime Sport.

This is basically the gaelic games equivalent of the Golden Ticket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and will get you into any GAA game of your choice, anywhere in the country, throughout 2009.  This includes big games in Croke Park and you can even use it more than once a day!  That’s if your transport capabilities are up to the task, admittedly.  Still, it’s a great prize.

Anyways, you’ve probably guessed that I wouldn’t be mentioning it here if a quiz wasn’t involved and you’d be right.  They’re running a quiz all this week to find a suitable person to bestow this prize on.

Each night from Monday to Wednesday, a celebrity quizmaster will ask three questions.  Judging by the standard of Monday’s questions (asked by Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh), this could be one of the hardest quizzes we’ll come across here on the blog.

For the sake of completeness I’d going to reproduce the questions here.  That said, one could always just go straight to the source too.  I’ll give the answers the usual new blog post when they’re made known.

Night 1 (Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh):

1. Name the last player who won senior All-Ireland hurling medals with two different counties?
2. Who was the Dublin footballer that won an All-Ireland minor medal one year and a senior one the following year?
3. Who was the player who won Railway Cup football medals with two provinces and All-Ireland senior medals with counties in those provinces? (This isn’t exactly what’s on the RTÉ site but it’s how the question was clarified on air by Mícheál)
4. Who was the only player in the history of the GAA to have won All-Ireland medals at minor, under-21, junior and senior intercounty levels and at club level in football? (Again not exactly what’s on the site but he did say it’s a football question)

Night 2 (Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin):

5. What county was the first to receive the Liam McCarthy cup?
6. Who was the first man to receive the Sam Maguire cup?
7. Name the Rhodesia-born player who won senior All Ireland football medals in 1976 and 1977?
8. An inter-provincial Railway Cup final (in hurling) was played outside the country for the first time in 2003. Where was it played?

Night 3 (Jimmy Magee):

9. Name three Cork men, each selected on a Team of the Millennium, who between them won 21 All-Ireland senior medals?
10. Which of the Ulster counties was the first to play in an All-Ireland senior final?
11. Which future president of the GAA, in a period of nine years, was involved in seven All-Ireland senior finals, winning four and refereeing two?
12. Which county won the Sam Maguire cup with five sets of brothers?

There ye go.  I’ll post up the answers tomorrow evening, when they’re announced.

If you’d like to enter the competition yourself you’ve got til sometime* on January 29 to email your answers to: drivetimesport@rte.ie.

* They’re a bit vague on the website.  All it really says is that four finalists will be announced on Thursday evening’s show.  Obviously, folks will have had to have entered by then!  That’s all I can tell ye…

Update: Answers are here…