If you hustled together with family and friends to complete our Christmas quiz, then the wait is finally over as we reveal the answers. It was no surprise that we had a postal bag full of entries, considering our array of prizes.
• First prize: Family break at the County Arms Hotel, Birr, worth €1,000.• Second prize: Midweek break at the Lyrath Hotel in Kilkenny, worth €500.• Third prize: Family break in the Westport Woods Hotel, worth €500. As always, we put all entrants that got 90 questions or more correct into the draw and congratulations to our three winners:
• First prize: Gerard Gowing, Portlaoise, Co Laois.• Second prize: Anne Devine, Glengarra, Co Waterford.• Third prize: Hugh Mc Clafferty, Letterkenny, Co Donegal.We hope you had a great time around the fire with family and friends trying to answer our 100 questions. Here are the much-anticipated answers:
Week 1
1 Phelim O’Neill
2 Donegal
3 Blue Lloyd 12
4 Harry Potter
5 46,286
6 Watermelon
7 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
8 Shergar
9 The Grinch
10 Path to Power
11 True
12 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
13 3
14 Paul Flynn, Dean Rock, Con O’Callaghan
15 Roma Downey
16 9
17 C.S Lewis
18 Helena Jonsson
19 Bah humbug
20 Brian Dooher
21 Jersey Cow
22 Britain
23 15%
24 Eleanor Roosevelt
25 John Boyd Dunlop
26 Caitriona Perry
27 6
28 14
29 Cillian Murphy
30 Rob and Dave Kearney
31 Jacqueline Wilson
32 Pluto
33 Last Christmas
34 Peters
35 21
36 Dog
37 Carlow
38 Take Me to Church
39 Portugal
40 1970
41 Bruce Springsteen
42 Christopher Robin
43 Denmark
44 Peru
45 Merry Christmas Everyone
46 Dorset
47 China
48 St Stephen
49 To Kill A Mocking Bird
50 Nicky Byrne
Week 2
51 3
52 Pat Spillane
53 John Bruton
54 280
55 Light bulb
56 Emma Watson
57 South Africa
58 Ballymoney, Co Antrim (Also accepted Co Antrim)
59 France
60 4
61 4
62 Derry
63 Three French hens
64 The Jackson Five
65 Torville and Dean
66 William Shakespeare
67 Leonardo DiCaprio
68 Suits
69 Batman
70 A one horse open sleigh
71 Herbivores
72 Peter Pan
73 9
74 Oslo
75 100
76 Thames
77 Black
78 Green and yellow (Also accepted green)
79 Mulled wine
80 Collie (Also accepted Rough Collie)
81 366
82 Nathan Carter
83 France
84 Youth for Understanding (Also accepted Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster)
85 3
86 A sheep dog
87 Ryan Tubridy
88 : Czech Republic
89 Do they know it’s Christmas?
90 John Sleigh
91 Macra Na Feirme
92 Westlife
93 Nelson Mandela
94 Pennsylvania
95 St Nicholas
96 1945
97 Diamonds
98 Bethlehem
99 Tadpoles
100 Drum
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Christmas through three generations
Turkey time at Maperath Farm this Christmas
If you hustled together with family and friends to complete our Christmas quiz, then the wait is finally over as we reveal the answers. It was no surprise that we had a postal bag full of entries, considering our array of prizes.
• First prize: Family break at the County Arms Hotel, Birr, worth €1,000.• Second prize: Midweek break at the Lyrath Hotel in Kilkenny, worth €500.• Third prize: Family break in the Westport Woods Hotel, worth €500. As always, we put all entrants that got 90 questions or more correct into the draw and congratulations to our three winners:
• First prize: Gerard Gowing, Portlaoise, Co Laois.• Second prize: Anne Devine, Glengarra, Co Waterford.• Third prize: Hugh Mc Clafferty, Letterkenny, Co Donegal.We hope you had a great time around the fire with family and friends trying to answer our 100 questions. Here are the much-anticipated answers:
Week 1
1 Phelim O’Neill
2 Donegal
3 Blue Lloyd 12
4 Harry Potter
5 46,286
6 Watermelon
7 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
8 Shergar
9 The Grinch
10 Path to Power
11 True
12 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
13 3
14 Paul Flynn, Dean Rock, Con O’Callaghan
15 Roma Downey
16 9
17 C.S Lewis
18 Helena Jonsson
19 Bah humbug
20 Brian Dooher
21 Jersey Cow
22 Britain
23 15%
24 Eleanor Roosevelt
25 John Boyd Dunlop
26 Caitriona Perry
27 6
28 14
29 Cillian Murphy
30 Rob and Dave Kearney
31 Jacqueline Wilson
32 Pluto
33 Last Christmas
34 Peters
35 21
36 Dog
37 Carlow
38 Take Me to Church
39 Portugal
40 1970
41 Bruce Springsteen
42 Christopher Robin
43 Denmark
44 Peru
45 Merry Christmas Everyone
46 Dorset
47 China
48 St Stephen
49 To Kill A Mocking Bird
50 Nicky Byrne
Week 2
51 3
52 Pat Spillane
53 John Bruton
54 280
55 Light bulb
56 Emma Watson
57 South Africa
58 Ballymoney, Co Antrim (Also accepted Co Antrim)
59 France
60 4
61 4
62 Derry
63 Three French hens
64 The Jackson Five
65 Torville and Dean
66 William Shakespeare
67 Leonardo DiCaprio
68 Suits
69 Batman
70 A one horse open sleigh
71 Herbivores
72 Peter Pan
73 9
74 Oslo
75 100
76 Thames
77 Black
78 Green and yellow (Also accepted green)
79 Mulled wine
80 Collie (Also accepted Rough Collie)
81 366
82 Nathan Carter
83 France
84 Youth for Understanding (Also accepted Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster)
85 3
86 A sheep dog
87 Ryan Tubridy
88 : Czech Republic
89 Do they know it’s Christmas?
90 John Sleigh
91 Macra Na Feirme
92 Westlife
93 Nelson Mandela
94 Pennsylvania
95 St Nicholas
96 1945
97 Diamonds
98 Bethlehem
99 Tadpoles
100 Drum
Read more
Christmas through three generations
Turkey time at Maperath Farm this Christmas
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