Christmas quiz results and winners

We are delighted to announce the winners of our bumper Christmas quiz, with prizes very generously sponsored by Ireland’s Blue Book.

Christmas quiz winners

Our first prize of two nights bed and breakfast with dinner on one night for two people sharing at Castle Gove, Co Donegal, goes to: Martina Jordan, from Foxford, Co Mayo.

Our first runner-up prize of one night bed and breakfast plus dinner for two people sharing at Fernhill House & Gardens, Co Cork goes to: John Cooney from Drombanna, Co Limerick.

Our second runner-up prize of one night bed and breakfast with dinner for two people sharing at The Lansdowne, Kenmare, Co Kerry goes to: Margaret McCafferty from Ballintra, Co Donegal.

For further information about Ireland’s Blue Book, visit https://www.irelands-blue-book.ie/

Sports Quiz Winners

The winner of our sports quiz is Pat Galvin from Ballyferriter, Tralee, Co Kerry. Pat will have the choice of a pair of tickets for either the All Ireland football or hurling final at Croke Park later this year.

As always, anybody who scored above 90 was entered into the draw. The answers are as follows:

Part 1

1. Meath

2. 2016

3. Ukraine

4. Cranberry sauce

5. Fionn Mac Cumhaill

6. Hinduism

7. 5 million

8. Catherine Parr

9. Sanna Marin

10. Kristin Shepard

11. Running Up That Hill

12. Four

13. Taylor Swift

14. Vilnius

15. Scotland

16. COP 27

17. Cork

18. Austin Butler

19. “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby

20. Spiddal, Galway

21. Scottish Blackface

22. Lewis Capaldi

23. 1995

24. Swimming

25. The Saturdays

26. France

27. 1690

28. Michael J. Fox

29. Paul Young

30. Dublin

31. Maple leaf

32. Cat

33. Empty (get it? MT?)

34. “He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice”

35. Nina Carberry

36. Donegal

37. Purple

38. The Hundred Acre Wood

39. Six

40. Burj Khalifa

41. Macra

42. 1990s

43. Cheetah

44. The X Factor

45. Novak Djokovic

46. Brooklyn Beckham

47. Meath

48. China

49. 1000

50. 21 June

Part 2

51. Louise McSharry

52. Lough Neagh

53. Mince pies

54. 21

55. Spain

56. Kamala Harris

57. France

58. Mercury

59. Kittens

60. Black

61. Louth

62. Capricorn

63. A rubber band

64. Israel Olatunde

65. €11.30 an hour

66. True

67. Scotland

68. Spanish

69. Valhalla

70. John B. Keane

71. Elton John

72. Stockholm

73. Footsteps

74. Gold, frankincense and myrrh

75. Seven

76. Mufasa

77. Japan

78. Meath

79. A gobbler

80. Marcus O’Halloran

81. Monkey

82. 1919

83. Lord Lariat

84. Envelope

85. Lapland

86. Rick Astley

87. Douglas Hyde

88. Harry and Marv

89. Co Laois

90. Mayo

91. Donegal

92. 23 years old

93. The Snowman

94. 1960s

95. Polish zloty

96. False

97. The letter ‘m’

98. Frank Sinatra

99. Tanzania

100. 1991

The answers to the quiz are as follows:

Gaelic goings - on

1. Seán O’Shea and Joe O’Connor

2. 2002, when Mayo beat Monaghan

3. Kilcoo of Down

4. Armagh

5. Rory Gallagher

Mixed Bag 1

6. Charles Leclerc

7. The Country Club, Brookline

8. Polish

9. Los Angeles Rams

10. Duckworth-Lewis

Hurling Heroes

11. Mikey Butler

12. Wexford

13. Offaly

14. Cork (11 points)

15. Kilkenny

Rugby Review

16. Wayne Pivac

17. RDS in Dublin, Musgrave Park in Cork and Kingspan Stadium (Ravenhill) in Belfast

18. Leicester Tigers

19. Ross Byrne

20. Bulls, Sharks, Stormers

The Beautiful Game

21. Damien Duff

22. Amber Barrett

23. Vinícius Júnior

24. Cork City

25. Wolverhampton Wanderers

Mixed Bag 2

26. British Open

27. Stephen Hendry

28. John Treacy

29. Tralee

30. Rowing

Sport Of Kings

31. Henry de Bromhead

32. Colin Keane

33. Lord Lariat

34. Ninth

35. Curragh

25 Years Ago

36. Anthony Daly

37. Spain

38. Chelsea

39. 1986

40. South Africa

Mixed Bag 3

41. Geelong Cats

42. Peter Wright

43. Tyson Fury, Daniel Dubois, Joe Joyce

44. Geraint Thomas

45. Ciara Mageean

Looking Ahead

46. France

47. Liam Cahill

48. Netherlands, France, Greece, Gibraltar

49. Budapest

50. Spain (Bilbao)