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Cops win Rosato's Quiz

Posted Friday, December 1, 2006

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Craic On at Rosato's

There were 8 teams at the Scoil Eoghain quiz in Tosato's on Thursday night. The winners were a team called the Cops who were composed of Paul Gillen, Paddy Munagle, Philip McDonald and Mickey Barron.

They won by a singe point from a two man (or one woman / one man) team called Peanuts.

The questions were created by Ryan Munagle, although due to sickness he couldn't read them himself and they were read by Gerry McLaughlin of the River Row, a late substitute.

So, how well would you have done? There are two points per question.

Here are the questions:-

Round 1

1. Where is the Sea of Tranquility?

2. Which North American state did the Americans purchase from Napoloen in 1803?

3. Freddie Bulgara was better known as which lead singer?

4. What famous Australian landmark was opened in 1932?

5. What organisation uses the motto Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity?

6. Is the Tropic of Capricorn north or south of the Equator?

7. In what city was Martin Luther King shot dead in 1968?

8. What is the flavour of Pernod?

Answers:-
1. On the Moon
2. Louisiana
3. Freddie Mercury
4. Sydney Harbour Bridge
5. FBI
6. South
7. Memphis
8. Aniseed

Round 2

1. Siam is the former name for which country?

2. Robert Zimmerman is beter known as whom in the musical world?

3. What is the other name for tetanus?

4. How many teeth in a full adult set?

5. What's Tiger Woods real first name?

6. What's the only sequel ever to win a best Oscar picture?

7. If an aviary is for keeping birds what is an apiary?

8. At which Irish City does the River Lagan reach the sea?

Answers:-
1. Thailaland
2. Bob Dylan
3. Lockjaw
4. 32
5. Eldrick
6. Godfather 2
7. A place where bees are kept. Apus is Latin for bee
8. Belfast

Round 3 - Wingdings (as in the TV Programme Catchphrase)

1. Milonelion

2. JUST144ICE

3. R|E|A|D|I|N|G

4. Do 12" or

5. Sympho

6. mind
-----
matter

7. tra
laf
gar

8. T
T
T+
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3T

Answers:-

1. One in a Million
2. Gross (144) in-justice
3. Reading between the lines
4. A foot in the door
5. Unfinished symphony
6. Mind over matter
7. Trafalgar square
8. Teetotaller

Round 4

1. Only one mammal can actually fly. Name it

2. If you wanted to find a penguin at home which pole would you head for?

3. What fish does caviar come from?

4. If you were racing in slalom, what would you be wearing?

5. The ESB's first generating station used the water of the Shannon River. Where on the Shannon was it built?

6. Who founded the Christian Brothers?

7. How is the output of an oil well measured?

8. When you buy things with a denarius where might you have been?

Answers:-
1. The Bat
2. South Pole
3. It is the roe of the sturgeon
4. Skis. It is a race down a slope with artificial obstacles
5. At Ardnacrusha
6. Edmund Rice
7. In barrels
8. Ancient Rome

Round 5

1. What did Stradivarius make?

2. A smack, a sloop and a lugger are all types of what?

3. A young male horse is a colt. What would his sister be called?

4. In Liscannor, Co. Clare, in 1841, a man called John Holland was born. He made a remarkable invention. What was it?

5. "Aloha!" is a greeting on what island?

6. The Suir, the Nore and the Barrow all end up in Waterford harbour. What are these three rivers known as collectively?

7. Who was Napoleon's wife?

8. Who did John F. Kennedy's widow marry?

Answers:-
1. Violins
2. They are all boats
3. A filly
4. A submarine
5. Hawaii
6. The three sisters
7. Josephine
8. Aristotle Onassis

Round 7 (Round 6 was the picture round)

1. Who was the Captain of the boat in Moby Dick?

2. What is the name of the sea that separates Alaska from Siberia?

3. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated which American President?

4. Name the French author of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Count of Monte Cristo" and the Three Musketeers"?

5. Which family lived in Kilkenny Castle?

6. What is the name of the fruit of the blackthorn tree?

7. Name the South African surgeon who performed the first heart transplant in 1967?

8. In Asia, the poppy is grown as the source of which drug?

Answers:-
1. Ahab
2. Bering Sea
3. John F. Kennedy
4. THis was given as Victor Hugo, but the latter two were actually by Alexandre Dumas
5. The Butlers. Earl of Ormonde
6. Sloes
7. Christian Bernard
8. Opium

Round 8

1. On what day is Bastille Day celebrated in France?

2. What was the nickname of the German aviator Baron Von Richtofen?

3. What was the nickname of the "Tin Lizzie"?

4. What is the fastest land animal?

5. What is the name given to the home of a beaver?

6. What do the initials VCR stand for?

7. What type of trees grew in the garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem?

8. In which American state is Fort Knox?

Answers:-
1. July 14th
2. The Red Baron
3. Model T Ford
4. Cheetah
5. Lodge
6. Video Cassette Recorder
7. Olive trees
8. Kentucky

The scores were as follows (I've put in brackets the points obtained from the picture round so that you can subtract those to compare them with how you did:-

1st - Cops - 132 points (30)
2nd - Peanuts - 131 (26)
3rd - Troublesome Trio - 112 (20)
4th - Jingle Bells - 109 (29)
5th - The Guessers - 98 (32)
6th - Brain Dead - 88 (28)
7th - Ten Tits - 62 (22)
8th - BT15 - 50 (12)

So where would you have come?