I was blackboard jungle too. Made the quarters which won us a Sony CD player each. Definitely maybe burned to the core that summer.
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Knocked out in the semis in Portlaw. One of the little cunts (Conor Quinn) making up the numbers on the team mixed up Columbanus and Colmcille.
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Darcy was an awful wanker, even back then. I was on on the first series so I got a hardback OED
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Amateur hour. Won a couple of counties. Lost one year because future county hurler Podge Tobin didnāt know how many sides were in a pentagon. Almost won the Munster Pioneer quiz one year. I was a gun for hire. Pub quizzes ruined me.
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I have a lovely piece of Waterford Glass here that I won for winning the Pioneer Quiz.
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George Byrne who set the questions was a bit of a cunt too. We challenged an incorrect answer we gave and he went ape (we were right in the end) and they had to pull out a fresh set of questions.
For the first three shows that were recorded back to back, we were given food vouchers to the rte canteen for lunch with no value on them. We had a good few mates in the audience and loaded up the tray with magnums, bottles of coke and sweets like the northsiders we were. When we returned for the quarters there was a Ā£5 limit on the voucher 
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I won the munster pioneer quiz, it was in Charleville the same day Luton beat Arsenal in the league cup final, picture in the Echo and all
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We used to have quizzes in primary school three days a week after lunch in 5th and 6th class. The teacher used to be the local quizmaster for the Guinness pub quiz so he would use those questions when available. There were cash prizes for the winner but if you missed a question that the teacher felt you should have got, you got a slap of his cane. Character forming.
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Quizzes were great - theyāve been fucking ruined by Google and the mobile phone.
We lost it down in Mallow I think.
Was there an All Ireland, i think we won that as well, not bad for a gouger school,
I was collecting answer sheets at an adults quiz back then, a question was what was the name of oasisā last album. A team hadnāt a clue and asked me, i said its definitely maybeā¦ they wrote down maybe as the answer
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There was a scandal relating to a Pioneer Quiz in Waterford in the 1970s that has never been disclosed but has been eating me up inside ever since.
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They objected to you because you were drinking? That happened to me.
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It was worse than that.
āKnow your sportā veteran signing in.
Didnāt like Jimmy Magee.
George Hamilton was sound enough.
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Howād you get on? I fluked a first round win but got found out in the next stage.
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Go on. Let the truth set you free
Well modesty forbids meā¦
but got to final but then got a hiding and limped home last.
My prize a tv and video player - but if a let down.
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