KNOW YOUR SPORT?

This year’s quiz is as difficult as last year’s, but some of you still found all the right answers then. Watch out for question 43, it is a tricky one but there is a straightforward correct answer – kind of. Best of luck with it. All Ireland final tickets to the winners!

1 In the decade just past, which county had the lowest scoring total in an All Ireland senior hurling final?

2 Who captained Cork to the 2005 All Ireland senior hurling title?

3 Who scored Clare’s only goal in their Munster hurling championship loss to Tipperary in June of this year?

4 What county is known as the Orchard County?

5 In the decade just past, only two counties have won the All Ireland football championship and National League title in the same calendar year. Kerry is one. Name the other.

6 Which Ulster county won their only National Football League title in 1985?

7 Damien Hayes is a star forward for Galway’s hurlers. Name his club.

8 Which Leinster county has won six senior All Ireland hurling titles but only three National Leagues, their last coming in 1973?

9 For what club does Dónal Óg Cusack play?

10 Which county had the lowest scoring total in an All Ireland senior hurling final during the ’90s?

11 Name the last year in which neither Kerry nor Tyrone qualified for the All Ireland football final.

12 Name the missing league team Kilkenny, Galway, Waterford, Dublin, Limerick, Offaly, ...

13 Kerry beat Laois in the final of what competition, played for the first time in 1964?

14 Wexford won their third All Ireland senior football title in a row back in 1917, beating a county making its first and only ever appearance in a football final, this being a traditional hurling county. Name them.

15 Which county won its four Ladies All Ireland senior football titles in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2003?

16 Seamus Darby scored the famous goal in the 1982 All Ireland football final, but who missed a penalty in the same game?

17 Who captained Waterford to their breakthrough Munster hurling final win over Tipperary in 2002?

18 What county knocked Kerry out of the Munster senior football championship in 1957?

19 Who are the Munster senior hurling club champions for 2009?

20 Only one father and son have won hurling All Stars. They are from Kilkenny. Name the family.

21 Armagh won the 2002 All Ireland football final, but when was their last appearance in an All Ireland football final?

22 After Kerry and Dublin, what county has won the most All Ireland senior football titles?

23 John Fenton’s famous goal from 1987 saw him pull on a ball from almost 50 yards out and it was TG4’s second best hurling goal of all time. Against which team did he score it?

24 After Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary, what county has won the most All Ireland senior hurling titles?

25 What county qualified for the 2009 Ulster senior football final after a gap of 39 years?

26 Jack Lynch and Christy Ring played for the same club, name it.

27 Henry Shefflin is in second place on the all-time scorers’ list for championship hurling. Which player is first?

28 What Tipperary man was Galway’s hurling manager for the 1978 79 season?

29 On Australia’s last visit to Ireland for the compromise rules series in 2006, the teams played two games – one in Croke Park, but where was the other played?

30 How many Leinster senior football titles has Mick O’Dwyer won as a manager?

31 What county won their first All Ireland senior football title in 1971?

32 In the decade just past, Kilkenny won seven Leinster minor hurling titles, but which Leinster county is second on “noughties” roll of honour with two titles?

33 One player has been on the field for every single game of Kilkenny’s four in a row from start to finish, bar a 25 minute spell when he was substituted in the second half of the 2007 Leinster hurling final. Name him.

34 PJ Ryan finally won a goalkeeping hurling All Star for Kilkenny this year, but who was the last Kilkenny cúlbaire to win one, back in 1993?

35 Only one man has won an All Star in football and hurling in the same year. Who is he? (Hint, it is not Liam Currams.)

36 His team came close to one of the biggest shocks in recent hurling history this summer but fell agonisingly short in the end. Willie Hyland scored eight points in the losing cause. Name his county.

37 Over the past three seasons, Cork have only had one hurling All Star. Name him.

38 Who captained Limerick in their loss to Kilkenny in the 2007 All Ireland hurling final?

39 Name the Lions rugby hooker who lined out for Aughrim GAA club this past season?

40 Name the last hurling team to lift the original Liam McCarthy Cup.

41 Back on 31 January, Croke Park played host to a fantastic firework display, following a National Football League game between which two counties?

42 Only one county besides Antrim has won a provincial hurling title in Ulster in the past decade (the noughties). Name the county.

43 Here’s the trick question: In 2001, a player won an All Ireland senior title. In 2002 a different player with the same name also won an All Ireland senior title. One football, one hurling. Two different counties. Name the “two” players.

44 How many National Football League titles have Roscommon won?

45 Three Dooley brothers have won hurling All Stars. Name them.

46 Clare lost every single National Hurling League game in 2009 bar one, a draw with which county?

47 Sam Maguire, after whom the All-Ireland senior football trophy is named, is from what fabled county?

48 Thurles CBS beat St Caimin’s College in the Munster A Colleges hurling final in 2009. What is the name of the cup presented to the winners?

49 With which school did DJ Carey win All Ireland Colleges titles in 1988 and 1989?

50 Which county lost this year’s minor football All Ireland final, their second final loss in a row?

The Irish Farmers Journal has a pair of All-Ireland hurling and football final tickets to give away to two lucky readers. To be in with a chance of winning the tickets, simply send your answers, numbered 1-50, by email (with Country Living Sports Quiz as the subject) to cl@farmersjournal.ie or by post to Country Living Sports Quiz, Irish Farmers Journal, Irish Farm Centre, Bluebell, Dublin 12 by no later than Friday, 8 January 2010