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Cumann na mBunscol Table Quiz 2001

Questions/Ceisteanna

Round 1

           1. What name is given to an animal that can live on land or in water?
2. Which popular TV soap this year celebrates its 40th anniversary?
3. Who is the Israeli Prime Minister?
4. Sligo manager, Peter Forde, is a native of which Connacht county?
5. Name the largest lake in the world.
6. What is a Portuguese Man O’ War?
7. Cén luach atá ar an liathróid gorm i snúcar?
8. Who is the current world rally champion?

Answers for Round 1


Round 2

           1.  What cycling team, for whom Mark Scanlon had signed, folded last week?
2. Which nation invented fireworks? 
3. Cén t-ainm atá ar chaora óg?
4. What name is given to trees that lose their leaves in winter?
5. Kylie Minogue used to star in which Australian soap?
6. Which Asian country was recently devastated by an earthquake?
7. Who was the first woman in space?
8. Name Sligo’s only two all-stars.

Answers for Round 2

Answers for Round 1

1. An amphibian
2. Coronation Street
     3. Arial Sharon
     4. County Mayo
5. The Caspian Sea
6. A type of jellyfish
7. Cúig
    8. Marcus Gromhal
 

Round 2

Round 3

1.  Which Irish institution was founded 75 years ago in 1926?
2. The Sligo-Dublin road is the N4. Name the Sligo-Galway road.
3. Which book has sold more copies than any other (2.5 billion)?
4. Who plays Cruella de Ville in 101 Dalmatians? 
5. Name the last Sligo player to win a Railway Cup Hurling title.
6. What adjective describes an animal that hunts at night?
7. Name the two driving heroes who were killed in the last year.
8. Cén Gaeilge atá ar dhuine a dhíolann feoil?

Answers for Round 3


Answers for Round 2

1. The Linda McCartney team
2. China
3. Uan 
4. Deciduous
5. Neighbours
6. India 
7. Valentina Tereshkova
8. Barnes Murphy and Mickey Kearns

Round 3

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Answers for Round 4

Round 5

 1.  Who sponsors the Sligo Senior football team?
2. H2O is the chemical name for what?
3. Whom did Chelsea sign recently on a free transfer?
4. In which county is Kilbeggan?
5. Cén contae ina bhfuil Béal Easa Dara?
6. Name the two actors who make up D’Unbelieveables.
7. Which painter spent four years painting a ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
8. Name the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Answers for Round 5

Answers for Round 4

1. Mary McAleese 2. Paul Durcan 3. Cardinal Connell 4. Robbie Keane
5. Séamus Moynihan 6. Ann Doyle 7. Denise Van Outen 8. Michael Woods

Round 5

Answers for Round 3

1. Radio Éireann (2RN)
2. N17
3. The Bible
4. Glenn Close
5. Paul Seevers
6. Nocturnal
7. Bertie Fisher and Joey Dunlop
8. Búistéir

Round 4

Round 6

1.  To which family of instruments does the oboe belong?
2. Cad a chuirtear i tae chun é a dhéanamh milis?
3. Who is the Sligo Senior Football captain?
4. Who is the present Minister for Finance?
5. Which League of Ireland team does Danny O’Leary play for?
6. Who invented the telephone in 1876? (Clue – it rings).
7. In what year did the French Revolution occur?
8.  What does the Richter scale measure?

Answers for Round 6

Answers for Round 5

1.Clifford Electrical
2. Water
3. Mark Bosnich
4. Westmeath
5. Contae Shligigh
6. John Kenny, Pat Short
7. Michaelangelo
8. Dr. John Reid

Round 6

Round 7

1.  What is the capital city of Peru?
2. Cén fath go bhfuil clú agus cáil ar Mel Gibson?
3. Who played the lead role in the film Gladiator? 
4. At what distance did Sonia O’ Sullivan win her Olympic medal in 2000?
5. What is the largest living mammal?
6. Name the Sligo County Senior Football Club Champions.
7. Name the four members of the band U2. 
8. Who first climbed Mount Everest?

Answers for Round 7

Answers for Round 6

1. Wind
2. Siúcra
3. Paul Taylor
4. Charlie McCreevy
5. Sligo Rovers
6. Alexander Graham Bell
7. 1789
8. Earthquakes

Round 7

Round 8

1.  Where does the American president live?
2. What do the initials ASTI stand for?
3. Cén tír ina bhfuil Oxford?
4. Who is the Chairman of the Sligo County Board?
5. In Mary McAleese the 7th or 8th President of Ireland?
6. Where are the 2004 Olympics to be held?
7. Oscars are presented for excellence in films. What is an Oscar?
8. The air around us consists mostly of oxygen – true or false?

Answers for Round 8

Answers for Round 7

1. Lima
2. Is aisteoir é
3. Russel Crowe
4. 5000m
5. The blue whale
6. Bunninadden
             7. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen
                8. Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norkay 

Round 8

Cumann na mBunscol Quiz 2001

The annual Cumman na mBunscol, Co. Shligigh, Table Quiz 2001 took place in the Teeling Centre, Collooney, on the 23rd of February, 2001 at 8.00p.m. The quizmaster was Mr. Eamonn Mullen of St. Brendan's National School, Sligo. Each school in Co. Sligo could enter a maximum of 2 teams of 4 members each. Entry fee was £4 per team. The quiz consisted of 8 rounds with 8 questions in each round. Each round included a 'ceist as gaeilge' (Question in the Irish language) and there was 1 picture round. Well done to last year's champions, Ardkeeran National School, Riverstown, who won with 49 questions correct out of 64. 

 

Answers for Round 8

   1. The White House
2. Association of Secondary 
  Teachers of Ireland
3. Sasana
4. Joe Queenan 
5. 8th
6. Athens
7. A gold statuette 
8. False – nitrogen 

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