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Co. Shligigh

 
SPORT AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

1.With which field-game do we associate the legendary Setanta of Ulster? 
2. In which year was the GAA founded? 
3. Dr. Croke was the first patron of the GAA and Croke Park is named in his honour. True or false? 
4. Which stand in Croke Park is named after Michael Cusack, GAA founding Secretary? 
5. This Tipperary footballer who was shot dead on Bloody Sunday, 1920, has a stand in Croke Park named in his honour. Who is he? 
6. This Mayo athlete has a stand in Croke Park named in his honour also. Who is he? 
7. The rubble after the Easter Rising of 1916 was placed in Croke Park to make a sloped viewing area for spectators. What is this hill now called? 
8. Name the Sligo lady, who fought during the 1916 Rising, and who is remembered at Markievicz Park? 
9. In Gaelic football, what number is worn by the player who marks the player wearing number 14? 
10. How many match officials officiate at an inter-county match? 
11. What signal does raising of the green flag by the umpire at a match convey? 
12. Name Sligo's two All-Star recipients. 
13. What caused the death of Cormac Mac Art? 
14. What Sligo mountain is associated with Diarmaid and Gráinne? 
15. Which poet writes of "playing music to empty pockets"? 
16. Name the Nobel Prize winner buried in Drumcliffe? 
17. Who designed Sligo's "Metal Man"? 
18. Who wrote the plays "Land of Heart's Desire" and "The Celtic Twilight"? 
19. Which Irish saint do we associate with Drumcliffe? 
20. Which queen do we associate with Knocknarea? 
 

 
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ANSWERS
1. Hurling 
2. 1884 
3. True 
4. The Cusack Stand 
5. Hogan, shot with 12 spectators 
6. P. W. Nally from Balla 
7. Hill 16 
8. Countess Markievicz, aka Constance Gore-Booth of Lisadell 
9. The numbers add to 17, so No. 3 marks No. 14 
10. Seven -- a referee, 2-linesmen and 2-umpires each end of the field. 
11. It signals a goal scored. 
12. The great Mickey Kearns (1971, when the All-Stars began) and Barnes Murphy in 1974. 
13. Cormac, who lived near Keash, Co. Sligo, for a time, choked on a salmon bone. 
14. Diarmaid was killed by a wild boar on Benbulbin -- see the boar on the Co. Council crest. 
15. Anthony Raftery ... "Mise Raifterí an file, lán ....... is grá...." 
16. William Butler Yeats, winner of the prize for literature in 1923 
17. Thomas Kirk (1781-1845), who also designed the Tramore "Metal Man". 
18. William Butler Yeats -- see the crest of Sligo Co. Council again! 
19. St. Columba, or Colmcille, who has a hospital in Sligo named after him. 
20. Queen Meabh (Meave)

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