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La Na gClub Quiz - Published

November 8, 2018

Due to multiple requests we have decided to publish the 30 questions asked during the Lá na gClub celebration on the 10 May 2009.

The winning entry scored 27 on the day, can you do better?  The answers to this quiz will be published next week.

Good Luck

 

  1. Dublin has won 22 All-Ireland Senior Football titles. How many times have they won the Sam Maguire Cup?

  2. Of which county is the G.A.A. Ard-Stiúrthóir (Director-General) Páraic Duffy, a native?

  3. Name Kerry’s first winner (1997) of the award, Young Player of the Year.

  4. Which club in the East Kerry Division has won the only O’Donoghue Cup Final that it has contested?

  5. Which County Cork club did Aodhán MacGearailt join recently?

  6. Which two county teams were playing a football match in Croke Park in November 21st, 1920 (Bloody Sunday)?

  7. When Cork beat Kerry in the 1973 Munster Minor Football Final Charlie Nelligan was a Kerry reserve. Which Rathmore goalkeeper was another one of the reserves?

  8. Kathleen Mills won a record 15 All-Ireland Senior Camogie medals. With which county did she win them?

  9. Investec are the sponsors of a county football team which appeared on television coverage of the National Football League Finals. Which county?

  10. Who has managed Galway, Mayo and Leitrim to win Connacht Senior Final titles?

  11. Formerly it could be seen in Croke Park. Now it is in the G.A.A. grounds in Carrickmore, Co Tyrone? What is it?

  12. This Dublin hurler was the Leinster full-forward in the 1970 Railway Cup Final. Later he was a T.D. for 25 years. He died in October, 2005. Who was he?

  13. Which county won the All-Ireland Minor Football title in 1995?

  14. In which year did Micheál O’Hehir broadcast his first full G.A.A match commentary?

  15. Name the third player in the famous “Hell’s Kitchen” full-back line, Michael Maher, Kieran Carey and whom?

  16. For which county did Paul O’Dowd play in goal in Croke Park in a Senior Football Championship semi-final when Declan O’Keeffe was the Kerry goalkeeper?

  17. Two players have won All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals both as goalkeepers and outfield players. Owensie Hoare of Roscommon is one. Who is the other?

  18. 2-19 to 0-18 is final score line from an All-Ireland Senior Football Final Kerry won. Which county did they defeat?

  19. Name the Liverpool-based club that Skellig Rangers defeated in the most recent All-Ireland Junior Football Club Final.

  20. Which Gneeveguilla corner-back played on the winning team in three Kerry Senior Football Championship in the 1960’s?

  21. Which club in the Imokilly Division (East Cork) is the club of Denis Walsh, the Cork Senior Hurling manager?

  22. Name the Kerry player who holds eight National Football League medals, the first won in 1959 and the last in 1974.

  23. Which member of the current Kerry Senior Football panel was Man of the Match in the 2008 Kerry Senior Football Final?

  24. Name the member of the Munster Rugby team who previously achieve success with O’Loughlin Gaels G.A.A. club

  25. Name the club that Portumna beat in the most recent All-Ireland Senior Hurling club final.

  26. Who was Captain of the East Kerry team which won the first All-Ireland Club Football final in 1971?

  27. Which is the club of Patrick Kerry who is currently a forward in the Cork Senior football team?

  28. How many National Football League titles have been won by Kerry?

  29. Which college has won the Harty Cup in 2009 after a gap of 53 years since the last won it?

  30. “Back to the Hill” is the title of which former G.A.A. player’s autobiography?

Special thanks to our All-Ireland Scór and Seachtain Na Gaeilge team (John S. O’Sullivan, Dan V. O’Connor and Tony Moynihan) for putting the questions together.