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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 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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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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Don’t make me hurry answers

Posted in Quiz Show, Quizzes, tagged , , , , on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here are the answers to the questions posed in the Don’t make me… Hurry round I posted on Friday. Sorry for the delay but, hey, it’s the weekend!

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Don’t make me… hurry

Posted in Quiz Show, Quizzes, tagged , , , , on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last night, at 7.30pm, I was in an Ennis pub (which I won’t name here) to take part in the Special Olympics All-County quiz, hosted on Clare FM. Why 7.30? Well, we’d be told (several times) that the quiz would start at 8pm sharp. This time didn’t go to waste though as the main invigilator [...]

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Clare FM county pub quiz

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , on March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This happens tomorrow night tonight so, if you’d like to give it a go, you’d better get your skates on. From the Clare FM website: “Clare FM, in association with Special Olympics are looking for pubs all over the county to host an all county pub quiz on March 19th.  Numbers of participating pubs will [...]

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Last Word of the Week

Posted in Quiz Show, Quizzes, tagged , , , , , , , on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Fancy showing off how much you know of the week’s news in front of a random media celeb? Fancy winning a snazzy t-shirt? Fancy doing all this and having a chat with Matt Cooper at the same time?! Well, if you do, you’re in luck because The Last Word on Today FM kicked off their [...]

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