Abbey Rovers Quiz Round 1

1. Lough Ree lies between which 3 Irish Counties

2. Name the South African Athlete who is currently undergoing tests to prove that she is a woman:

3. What is the more common name given to the German shepherd

4. Name the Current English Soccer team manager:

5. What is the medical name for the kneecap:

6. name the two teams contesting this years Leitrim Senior GAA Football Final ;

7. Who wrote the children’s play “The Happy Prince”

8. Which Irish City’s name is derived from the Irish word for Marsh

9. Leinster won the Heineken cup in 2008 for the first time what English rugby team did they beat in the final:

10. With which Hollywood actor would you associate the phrase “go ahead Punk make my day”

Abbey Rovers Quiz Round 2

1. Who is the current manager of English Championship Side Ipswich:

2. Who is the leader of the Irish Labour Party:

3. Which Hollywood actress said “I am a good housekeeper, every time I divorce I keep the house”

4. What is President Obama first name

5. What is the name given to uncured Pig Meat:

6. Who is the Minister for the Environment

7. In addition to Ireland , St. Patrick is also the Patron saint of which African country

8. When did Euro notes and coins officially become currency in Europe 

9. Joe Kernan agreed this week to manage what senior Gaelic football team:

10. Irishman Martin O’Neill manages which English Premiership club: 

Abbey Rovers Round 3

1. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is married to which ex international super model
2. If you had been born on the day when Leitrim won their first senior football Connacht title what age would you have been when they won their second  
3. Pantomime personality Adele King is better known by what name:

4. Who said  A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

5. Who won the all Ireland  2009 senior Camogie title at the weekend

6. In which Irish county was racing jockey Kieran Fallon born

7. What is a witches mode of conveyance said to be:

8. Who was appointed as Down’s Senior Football team last week

9. Name the chairman of the Government agency FAS who has offered his resignation this week

10. Who wrote Angelas Ashes

Abbey Rovers Round 4

1. to which Irish Politician did Margaret Thatcher say “out out out”

2. Padraig Harrington’s father Ger played in the 1956 All-Ireland football final against Galway. But for which county?

3. Brendan Courtney and Sonya Lennon took over last year presenting what well known fashion Programme on RTE

4. Size 12 in UK women’s dress sizes are what in US dress size ;8,10 14

5. Kurfurstendamm is a famous shopping street in what city

6. Jakarta is the capital of which country

7. What waterfall was made famous by William Butler Yeats Poem the stolen child

8. Green and gold are the official colours of Leitrim GAA  what are the official colours of the  Leitrim Community Games:

9. Who was the last British Prime Minister not to have a wife:

10. What is the name of the fields on which rice are grown:

Abbey Rovers Round 5

1. The second smallest chapel in the world and the smallest in Europe is located in which Irish Town
2. The government is currently bringing in legislation to set up the agency NAMA what does the initials NAMA stand for

3.  What five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

4. If a plane crashes on the Leitrim/Roscommon border, where do you bury the survivors?
5. According to the Bible who killed Abel

6. If a dish is a la Florentine, it is assumed to served on a bed of?

7. Although it did not hinder him scoring a goal in the first football world cup final, what was Uruguayan Hector Castro's physical handicap?

8. What year did the aforementioned Hector help Uruguay to win the first world cup

9. What is the last letter of the Greek Alphabet:

10.   Who was the youngest President of the United States

 Abbey Rovers Round 6

1. What type of creature is a flying fox
2. The European Union came into being in 1993 after which treaty?

3. How many men have actually walked on the moon, : 2, 8, 12

4. Assuming that you are paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice or two friends to the movies at the same time?

5. Which Irish playwright wrote Marriage is an ongoing war marked by short outbreaks of peace:

6. Peter Griffin is the star of which popular US animated TV series

7. on which street does Bert and Ernie Live

8. Name the current CEO of Galway Utd. Soccer Club and former stock market trader who sent Barings bank into bankruptcy

9. What Elvis Presley song has the same Melody as the old Irish song Nora Lee:

10. What age is Sean O’Callaghan well known local Actor, quiz question compiler and former Leitrim PRO

Abbey Rovers Round 7

1. Irish Boxer John Joe Nevin won a bronze medal in the world championships, what weight does John Joe fight at:

2. what is the tail of a fox called:

3. What is the medical term for German Measles :

4. Which famous song which I can guarantee every one in the room knows the words to did the Hill sisters write the melody of :

5.  This County has the honour of having the youngest player to ever play in the all Ireland final and the somewhat dubious honour of having the first player to be sent off in an all Ireland final  :

6. Who played Father Jack in the TV series Fr. Ted

7. Abbey Rovers official colours are Blue and yellow, Green and Yellow,  Green and Red :

8. in what year was Jack Charlton appointed Irish Manager:

9. Who said that a government who always robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely on the support of Paul

10. Which 3 brothers were part of the Dublin Senior Football team in 2008:  

Abbey Rovers Quiz Round 8

1. Giovanni Trapattoni, the current Irish soccer manager left what European club to take  up his position in May 2008.                     

2. Name Giovanni Trapattoni’s two assistant Managers;,

3. Name the Abbey Rovers Chairman:   

4. Who is the League of Ireland Premier Division champions? 

5. Who is the Glasgow Celtic manager?

6. During the Abbey Rovers tour to London in February what well known Irish pub was Dominic McGovern looking for?

7. Name newly promoted Burnleys home ground:

8. Gianfranco Zola is the manager of which English Premiership club

9. Manchester United was the first premiership champions in the 1992/1993 season who were the second placed team:

10. Who finished the premierships leading goal scorer in the 2008/2009 season:

Abbey Rovers Quiz Round 9

Number 1                                                       Number 2

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Number 3                                                           Number 4

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Number 5                                                            Number 6                                                     

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Number 7                                                       Number 8

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Number 9                                                       Number 10

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1. The official title of the head of the Roman Catholic Church is not the pope what is it 
2. Which computer language is named after coffee

3. Which word is used to describe plants which live for many years:

4. How much is a shot of Hennessy’s VSOP Brandy here in Priors pub  €4.75, €5.00, €5.75

5. In Aesop’s Fable which two animals have a race:

6. Robbie Keane plays for which English Premiership club 
7. what colour are  Bart Simpson’s shorts

8. The actual Sam Maguire cup was first presented in 1928, name the winning county

9. Name the current UK best selling single this week

10. What town in Brittany is Ballinamore twinned with

Abbey Rovers Quiz Round 1

1. Answer: Longford Westmeath and Roscommon.
2. Answer: Caster Semenya.
3. Answer: Alsatian.
4. Answer: Fabio Cappelo
5. Answer: The Patella.
6. Answer: Glencar Manorhamilton and Carrigallen.
7. Answer: Oscar Wilde.
8. Answer: Cork
9. Answer: Leicester.
10. Answer: Clint Eastwood

Abbey Rovers Quiz Round 2

1. Answer Roy Keane
2. Answer Eamon Gilmore
3. Answer Zsa Zsa Gabor
4. Answer Barrack
5. Answer Pork
6. Answer John Gormley
7. Answer Nigeria
8. Answer: January 1^st 2002
9. Answer Galway
10. Answer Aston Villa

 Abbey Rovers Round 3

1. Answer Carla Bruni
2. Answer :67
3. Answer Twink
4. Answer:  Author John B. Keane
5. Answer Cork
6. Answer Clare
7. Answer a broomstick
8. Answer James McCartan
9. Answer Peter McLoone
10. Answer Frank McCourt

Abbey Rovers Round 4

1. Answer Garret Fitzgerald.
2. Answer Cork
3. Answer: off the rails
4. Answer: 10
5. Answer: Berlin
6. Answer: Indonesia
7. Answer Glencar waterfall Leitrim
8. Answer Black and Amber
9. Answer Margaret Thatcher
10. Answer Paddy Fields

 Abbey Rovers Round 5

1. Answer: Carrick on Shannon The Costello memorial chapel.
2. Answer: National Assets Management Agency
3. Answer Short
4. Answer: you don’t bury the survivors
5. Answer Cain
6. Answer Spinnach
7. Answer His right forearm was missing
8. Answer: 1930
9. Answer: Omega
10. Answer: Theodore Roosevelt (42)

Abbey Rovers Round 6

1. Answer a bat.
2. Answer: The Maastricht Treaty
3. Answer: 12
4. Answer; It is cheaper to take two friends at the same time. In this case, you would only be buying three tickets, whereas if you take the same friend twice you are buying four tickets.
5. Answer John B. Keane
6. Answer Family Guy
7. Answer: Sesame Street
8. Answer Nick Leeson
9. Answer Love me tender
10. Answer: 58 

Abbey Rovers Round 7

1.      Answer Bantamweight.

2.      Answer a Brush

3.      Answer Rubella

4.      Answer Happy Birthday to you

5.      Answer Cavan (Patsy Lynch 16 1928 and Joe Stafford 1943)

6.      Answer Frank Kelly

7.      Answer :Green and Yellow

8.      Answer 1986

9.      Answer: George Bernard Shaw

10.  Answer: Paul, Alan, Bernard Brogan

Abbey Rovers Quiz Round 8

1.      Answer FC Red Bull Salzburg.

2.      Answer :Liam Brady and Marco Tardelli

3.      Answer Kevin Doonan

4.      Answer: Bohemians

5.      Answer: Tony Mowbray

6.      Answer: McGoverns of Kilburn

7.      Answer: Turfmoor

8.      Answer: West Ham

9.      Answer: Aston Villa

10.   Answer: Nicolas Anelka

Abbey Rovers Quiz Round 9

1. Brian Cowen
2. Michael Collins
3. Mary Robinson
4. Oliver Cromwell
5. Tom Gannon 1927
6. Declan Darcy 1994
7. Declan Kidney ( Ireland Rugby Coach)
8. Jennifer Anniston
9. Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina)
10. Colin Farrell

1. Answer: the Supreme Pontiff.
2. Answer: Java
3. Answer: Perennials
4. Answer: €5.00
5. Answer: Hare and Tortoise
6. Answer: Tottenham Hotspur
7. Answer: Blue
8. Answer: Kildare
9. Answer: Pixie Lott with Boys and Girls
10.  Answer: Plouzec