Week one answers

1. Irish Farm Centre, Bluebell, D12

2. 133 (134 was accepted as Ciara Mageean did not compete)

3. 18

4. Tennis

5. The Spark

6. Two

7. Dublin

8. Bord Bia

9. Home Alone

10. 1500kg x 46% = 690kg N / 20ha = 34.5kg N/ha

11. 32

12. Swan

13. Love and fertility

14. Farm Business Development

15. Playing chess

16. 1985

17. Elsa

18. Westport

19. Red

20. Orchid

21. The Baling Assistance Payment

22. James Corden and Ruth Jones

23. Scotland

24. Rhys McCleneghan

25. River Barrow

26. Choux pastry

27. New Zealand

28. Willie Mullins

29. Mars

30. Four

31. The Trip to Tipp

32. Break the Cycle

33. October

34. Brian Boru (Máel Sechnaill was also accepted)

35. The Chieftains

36. 46,000

37. Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney

38. 2007

39. The host’s son

40. Limousin

41. Sagittarius

42. Germany

43. Kombucha

44. 1.9m tonnes

45. (d) Waterlogged track

46. Clockwise

47. Charlie Smyth

48. Freda Kinnarney

49. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

50. India

Week two answers

51. Irish Country Living

52. Georgia Tech and Florida State

53. Tom Hanks

54. Apple

55. Thin Lizzy

56. Dairy

57. Afrogato

58. Housing Assistance Payment and Rental Assistance Payment

59. Belclare sheep

60. The Ural Mountains

61. XL Bully

62. A Star is Born

63. 1997

64. The hammer throw

65. Allows an object to levitate

66. Bluetongue (Schmallenberg also accepted)

67. Conchiglie

68. Friends

69. 96

70. Sorcha McCartan

71. Higher Power

72. Shirley

73. Germany

74. New Ross

75. Reindeer (Caribou was accepted)

76. Milking: 10 milkings in 7 days

77. Rossa Ryan

78. Denmark

79. Christmas cracker

80. (a) Billy Warp

81. Charolais

82. Greek (Koine Greek also accepted)

83. Amy

84. A stamp

85. Wexford

86. Flamingoes

87. 5m

88. Shane O’Donnell

89. Pigs (Dogs also accepted)

90. 8

91. Spice

92. The electric eel

93. Luxembourg

94. May

95. Rugby

96. Antimicrobial resistance

97. 30 years, it came out in 1994

98. Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus

99. Tanzania

100. 100

Runner up prizes: one night, B&B with dinner, for two people sharing at Bishop’s Gate Hotel, Co Derry; pictured above, one night, B&B with dinner, for two people sharing at Fernhill House and Gardens, Co Cork.

Sports quiz answers

Big-ball bliss

1. Oisín Conaty

2.1993

3. Twelve

4. Derry

5. 2009

Mixed bag 1

6. Xander Schauffele

7. ‘The Crucible Curse’ – no first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship at the Sheffield venue has successfully defended the title

8. Ben Healy

9. Light-welterweight

10. Conor Niland

Union ups and downs

11. Toulouse

12. Peter O’Mahony

13. Cork Constitution

14. Graham Rowntree

15. Wales and Scotland

Citius, altius, fortius

16. Taekwondo

17. Pommel horse

18. Japan

19. Katie-George Dunlevy

20. Sligo

The beautiful game

21. Jamaica

22. Wales

23. Damien Duff

24. Brighton & Hove Albion

25. Kerry

Silver jubilee

26. No goals were scored

27. The Country Club at Brookline

28. Istabraq

29. Wembley – Wales played their home games there while the Millennium Stadium was being built

30. Peter Schmeichel

Hurling heroics

31. Six

32. St Thomas

33. Ger Manley

34. 2018

35. Offaly, in 1995

Mixed bag 2

36. USA

37. Ferrari

38. Leona Maguire

39. Kansas City Chiefs

40. Belarussian

On the gallops

41. Ride the winners of the Aintree Grand National and Cheltenham Gold Cup in the same year

42. Gordon Elliott

43. Galopin Des Champs

44. Kilkenny

45. Los Angeles

Looking ahead

46. Simon Easterby

47. Tokyo

48. New York

49. Antrim

50. Switzerland

Congratulations to our winners

First place: Jane Ward, Cork city

Second place: Seamus Regan, Castlerea, Co Roscommon

Third place: Una O’Connor, Ardagh, Co Limerick

Sports quiz winner: Donal McElwaine, Fanad, Co Donegal