Questions from Good Friday Quiz.

Have a go – Answers below.

The winning team scored 58 right out of 60, and the winning juniors scored 38.



Round 1.

1. Why did Jack and Jill go up the hill?

2. Who recently stepped down as CEO of the FAI?

3. What is Barack Obama’s wife’s name?

4. In which province is Co. Longford?

5. Actress Saoirse Ronan was born in New York, T/F?

6. According to the rhyme, how many magpies represent silver?

7. Spell RECEIVE.

8. Which had the greater area, N. or S. Tipperary?

9. What nationality is Pope Francis?

10. What was the original Brexit date?


Round 2.

1. Adult elephants can't jump, T/F?

2. In what series of books and films does the game Quidditch feature?

3. If Brexit happens, how many countries will be left in the EU?

4. Lewis Hamilton is famous in what sport?

5. The Dalai Lama is a leader in what religion?

6. The Duke of Sussex is more commonly known as what Prince?

7. Name the president of the IFA.

8. Name the book of poems by Tim Joe McGrath published last year.

9. Who is the President of France?

10. Which of the Famous Five is a dog?


Round 3.

1. Spell FOREIGN.

2. Which letter of the alphabet begins most names of the 32 counties?

3. Which hugely popular TV series has just begun its eighth and final season?

4. Two people fight a duel, and three fight a truel, T/F?

5. How many Irish counties are bigger than Tipperary?

6. Who are the All-Ireland Club Hurling Champions?

7. In which year was smoking in the workplace banned in Ireland, 2000, 2004 or 2008?

8. In which year did the euro become Ireland’s official physical currency, 2000, 2001 or 2002?

9. Jacinda Ardern is the PM of which country?

10. Bruce Wayne is the secret identity of which superhero crimefighter?


Round 4.

1. What year is MMXIX in Roman numerals?

2. Name the European Commissioner for Agriculture.

3. Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal every year, T/F?

4. In what year was the new school officially opened in Dualla, 2010, 2011 or 2012?

5. Mrs Beeton, Delia Smith and Darina Allen all wrote on what subject?

6. The Book of Kells was written in what language?

7. Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po are the names of which children’s TV creatures?

8. Who defeated Ireland in the Women’s Hockey World Cup Final in London last August?

9. What is the main language of Brazil?

10. Irish Ferries’ newest ship is named after which writer?


Round 5.

1. In which cartoon town do the Simpsons live?

2. Most of Belfast city lies in which county?

3. Spell DISSATISFIED.

4. Name the US House of Representatives Speaker who addressed the Dáil last Wednesday.

5. The film “Pig In The City” was a sequel to which other film?

6. Ireland, the UK and which other EU country observe the same local time throughout the year?

7. What is the only country in the world that begins with the letter Y?

8. Which two letters were on S. Tipperary car number plates issued up to May 1985?

9. If seven people meet and each shakes hands once with each of the others, how many handshakes will occur?

10. Who will Tipperary play in their first Munster Senior Hurling Championship game of 2019?


Round 6.

1. Which part of Pinocchio grows when he tells a lie?

2. 3.14 or 22/7 are values commonly used for which irrational number?

3. What we call “Baked Beans” are actually usually stewed, T/F?

4. A special €2 coin was issued in Ireland in January to commemorate which event?

5. In what year was the first Boherlahan-Dualla Historical Journal published, 1995, 1998 or 2001?

6. Who wrote the novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”?

7. Aisling Moloney, from Cahir, is a star in which sport?

8. Where in NI will the 2019 British Open Golf Tournament be held?

9. Which of these is a disease of cattle, BVD, BPS or FBD?

10. In what Asian country did Donald Trump and N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet most recently?



1.

To fetch a pail of water.
John Delaney.
Michelle.
Leinster.
True.
Five.
RECEIVE.
South.
Argentinian.
29 March.


2.

True.
Harry Potter.
27.
Motor Racing.
Buddhism.
Prince Harry.
Joe Healy.
“My Memory Road”.
Emmanuel Macron.
Timmy.


3.

FOREIGN.
L.
“Game of Thrones”.
True.
5
Ballyhale.
2004.
2002.
New Zealand.
Batman.


4.

2019.
Phil Hogan.
True.
2012.
Cookery.
Latin.
Teletubbies.
Netherlands.
Portuguese.
W. B. Yeats.


5.

Springfield.
Antrim.
DISSATISFIED.
Nancy Pelosi.
"Babe”.
Portugal.
Yemen.
HI.
21.
Cork.


6.

His nose.
Pi.
True.
An Chéad Dáil.
1998.
Victor Hugo.
Ladies Football.
Portrush.
BVD.
Vietnam.