SOLUTIONS:
ROUND ONE: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1 Mauritius
2 €1.27
3 Finland
4 McDonald’s
5 The Mariana, or Marianas, Trench in the Pacific Ocan
6 The Battle of Aughrim in Co. Galway
7 In a plane crash (in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia)
8 60,000
9 Barry Fitzgerald
10 Co. Cavan
ROUND TWO: SILVER SCREEN 1 The Breakfast Club 2 In Bruges
3 The Artist
4 Return Of The Jedi 5 Speed
6 Chariots Of Fire
7 The Bourne Identity 8 Veronica Guerin
9 The Beach
10 In The Line Of Fire
ROUND THREE: THE POWER OF THREE
1 Boom Boom Boom 2 Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
3 [Outside] Ebbing, Missouri – you can give the point without the word outside
4 Kennedy
5 Shirley Temple 6 Allez! Allez! Allez! 7 The Corrs 8 The fountain 9 Africa
10 Dara Ó Briain
ROUND FOUR: THE FOURTH
1 Dublin – the four counties beginning with D in alphabetical order
2 Kelvin Fletcher – the most recent celebrity winner of Strictly Come Dancing
3 Dick – the four humans in Enid Blyton’s Famous
Five series. The fifth was Timmy the dog
4 Mike – the main characters in cult BBC comedy The Young Ones
5 Pearse – the first four names on the 1916 Proclamation as they appear on the document
6 Po, the fourth of the Teletubbies 7 Seamus Heaney, the fourth of Ireland’s Nobel laureates in Literature
8 Whittaker – the surnames of the four most recent Doctors in Doctor Who 9 Tipperary, the four most recent winners of the AllIreland Senior Hurling Championship 10 Our Little Cruelties, the four books to date written by Liz Nugent
ROUND FIVE: POP OUT FOR A SPIN
1 Phoenix 2 Rotterdam
3 Budapest
4 Tulsa
5 Clarkesville
6 Waterloo
7 Ipanema
8 Beijing
9 Medellín
10 Bourbon Street (New Orleans)
ROUND SIX: GOING LOGO 1 Sony PlayStation 2 Circle K
3 Pepsi
4 Mercedes-Benz (just ‘Mercedes’ is allowed) 5 London Underground 6 Lacoste
7 MGM film company 8 Pinterest website 9 Airbnb
10 World Wildlife Fund
ROUND SEVEN: DAN’S DECIDERS 1 Earth
2 Obey
3 New York
4 A monkey called Tojo, who was on a US Air
Force plane that crashlanded nearby in 1943. He allegedly was plied with black pudding and alcohol and died!
5 Fermanagh and
Wicklow
6 Burger King
7 Cricket
8 Bíró (László Bíró)
9 The foot – it’s your big toe
10 St Lucia