PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES: Which actor starred as Ennis Del Mar alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain?

2 MUSIC: Which pop band recorded the albums Fantastic, Make It Big and Music From The Edge Of Heaven?

3 TV & RADIO: Which RTÉ quiz show was presented firstly by Marty Whelan and subsequently by Theresa Lowe?

4 SPORT: Who did Billie Jean King defeat in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match in 1973? 5 GEOGRAPHY: Which city is known colloquially as the Lion City, the Garden City and the Little Red Dot?

6 HISTORY: In which Irish county is Mooghaun, the late Bronze Age hill fort located?

7 FOOD & DRINK: Which cocktail traditionally consists of mint leaves, syrup and bourbon whiskey?

8 LITERATURE: Which Thomas Hardy novel features a young man who dreams of being a scholar in the fictional city of Christminster?

9 WORDS: What is a quokka? a) A small wallaby, b) A type of woodpecker, c) A fish.

10 IRELAND: Which playwright and poet famously said ‘I can resist everything except temptation’?

11 THIS YEAR: Which US film director did Olympic diver Tom Daley marry in May?

12 POT LUCK: In Norse mythology, what kind of birds are Huginn and Muninn?