Informative.
Ballybacon?
Here’s a few I did for a quiz, trying to make it vaguely accessible to people who had no interest in sport.
When Bernard Brogan retired he lost his spot as the current intercountry GAA player with the most Twitter followers with 110,000 followers. Name the current number one and two hurling and football respectively. Joe Canning 55.3k and Michael Murphy 50.4k.
Simon Zebo jointly holds the record for most tries scored for Munster in the European Champions Cup with 23. Who does he share the record with? Anthony Foley.
Who has won the most WWE Royal Rumbles? Stone Cold Steve Austin.
How many Olympic gold medal events has Ireland won? Nine.
Katie Taylor is a two weight world champion in her professional career. Name the weights. Lightweight, junior welterweight.
In the Simpsons episode, Homer at the Bat, Mr. Burns drafts nine Major League Baseball players onto the Springfield Power Plants softball team in order to win a bet. Name three. Hint: “Well, Mr. Burns had done it, The Power Plant had won it…” Darryl Strawberry, Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Steve Sax, Ken Griffey Jr, Ozzie Smith, Mike Scioscia, Jose Canseco, Don Mattingly.
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Thanks
Fuck you anyway now I’ve that song stuck in my head.
Talkin’ softball
Mattingly and Canseco.
Ken Griffey’s grotesquely swollen jaw.
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law.
We’re talkin’ Homer.
Ozzie and the Straw.
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Are you calling them out? If so ask them to spell Robert Lewandowski* or Borrusia Monchengladbach* or some such.
*Those are possibly incorrect spellings
You’re welcome. I did that round before the break then gave the answers and hit play on the song and left them with it.
One team has won the top flight of German football, who are not German. Name them
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Even though the most famous German of all was a fan. Rapid Vienna
He was Austrian
That has me stumped.
It’s a good trivia question but the type of one that would get a quizmaster lynched, one of the answers would be more associated with another club.
Cloyne?
I don’t think there can be any issue considering the phrasing of the question,
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Passage?
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Cracked it at last. Passage it is. Hoggie and Justin.
2 football All-Stars gained the award without playing (up to that juncture) in Croke Park.
Either or both…
seems like a very low number considering the system pre back door.
Mickey Quinn is probably one considering who’s asking?
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It possibly is but both names I was given were pre-qualifiers.
Where’s Sidney when you need him? Don’t over-tax yourself on it.
The other one will surprise you. Quinn and the question were a gimme. 