Thursday, February 23, 2012

Quizmaster

This evening I was quiz-master for Killiney Lions Club who were raising funds for a local school - in total the quiz raised just over €1,000. There were 15 tables, with the winning team scoring a brilliant 92/100 - a group of teachers who clearly found the quiz very easy. The lowest score was 42/100. I thought the quiz might have been a bit hard, but I think it hit the right mix of sport, gossip, history, geography, politics, and news.

Most people found round 2 to be the most difficult - here are the ten questions, see how you get on:

1
By what name is Great Britain Street in Dublin now known as?
2
In January 2005 a landmark was reached when a song called "One Night" became the 1,000th song to reach number one in the UK singles chart. Who was the singer?
3
Which two GAA clubs, one in Kerry and one in Dublin, are named after the same Archbishop?
4
In which song by The Beatles would you find the following lines?

In a couple of years they have built a home sweet home,
With a couple of kids running in the yard,
Of Desmond and Molly Jones
5
Name any one of actress Elizabeth Taylor's husbands OTHER THAN Richard Burton.
6
What part did Irish actor Devon Murray play in the "Harry Potter" series of movies?
7
How many pieces are there in total on a chequers (draughts) board?
8
What city is the capital of Peru?
9
Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants - by what common name do we know this better as?
10
In the human body, where would you find your Pituitary Gland?

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