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    #2252
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    I'm so tempted to look him up, the only thing I can remember is that he won the tennis. Might be enough of a clue for someone else to work it out


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    #2253
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    I'm so tempted to look him up, the only thing I can remember is that he won the tennis. Might be enough of a clue for someone else to work it out

    I'll give it another day or two.


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    #2254
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Ok. It was John Pius Boland of the Bolands Biscuits family, winner of the tennis singles and doubles at the Athens Olympics 1896, and later Nationalist M.P. for South Kerry. His daughter Honor Crowley was later a FF T.D. for South Kerry, taking her late husbands seat.

    Now, name the only All-Ireland senior hurling winner who was also an Olympic champion.


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    #2255
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    ........................
    Now, name the only All-Ireland senior hurling winner who was also an Olympic champion.

    Reckon you're going to have to give us the answer to that one at this stage


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    #2256
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Reckon you're going to have to give us the answer to that one at this stage

    Sorry. I was away.

    Edmund ( Ned ) Barrett of Ballyduff, Co. Kerry was on London's All-Ireland winning hurling team in 1901.

    He won a gold medal as part of the City of London Police tug-of-war team in the 1908 Olympic Games in London. He also won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division of the freestyle wrestling competition at the same Olympics.


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    #2257
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Another one:

    Which member of Dail Eireann played top level hurling and Gaelic football for his county and top level rugby for Ireland?


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    #2258
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Another one:

    Which member of Dail Eireann played top level hurling and Gaelic football for his county and top level rugby for Ireland?

    I can't think of any of the current crop so I'm going to say Dick Spring


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    #2259
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    I can't think of any of the current crop so I'm going to say Dick Spring

    Correct.


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    #2260
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Nice easy one to keep the ball rolling. How many times was Dick Spring capped for Ireland?


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    #2261
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Nice easy one to keep the ball rolling. How many times was Dick Spring capped for Ireland?

    Twice?


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    #2262
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Twice?

    Have another go


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    #2263
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Have another go

    Once?


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    #2264
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    And once more!


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    #2265
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    And once more!

    Thrice.

    No more guesses. That's my last.


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    #2266
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Thrice.

    No more guesses. That's my last.

    Well done. All three during the 1979 season, against France, Wales and England


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    #2267
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Who is the only man ever to be a World Pool Champion (in 8 Ball) and a World Snooker Champion?


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    #2268
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Who is the only man ever to be a World Pool Champion (in 8 Ball) and a World Snooker Champion?

    Mark Selby maybe


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    #2269
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    That's correct.


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    #2270
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Who invented the magic eight ball?


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    #2271
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Who invented the magic eight ball?

    Albert Carter.


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    #2272
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Albert Carter.

    It is decidedly so :-D


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    #2273
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    It is decidedly so :-D

    Name the country singing cousin of President Jimmy Carter.


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    #2274
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Since nobody else seems interested I'm going to guess at June Carter Cash of the famous Carter singing dynasty.
    Also the only country singer named Carter I can think of.


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    #2275
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Since nobody else seems interested I'm going to guess at June Carter Cash of the famous Carter singing dynasty.
    Also the only country singer named Carter I can think of.

    Correct. Question?

    P.S. There's a very good quiz in the Oulwans 'n Oulfellas forum.


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    #2276
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Ah must check that out. Anyhoo, here's nice easy one to try and get the thread going again
    Who played June Carter Cash in the movie, I Walk The Line?


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    #2277
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,084 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    I assume it was Reese Witherspoon?


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    #2278
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,084 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    On a dartboard, what number is between 18 and 13?


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    #2279
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    4

    In which town did the shootout at the O.K. Corral occur at?


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    #2280
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    4

    In which town did the shootout at the O.K. Corral occur at?

    Tombstone, Arizona Territory.

    Who was the town marshal at the time of the gunfight?


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    #2281
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Tombstone, Arizona Territory.

    Who was the town marshal at the time of the gunfight?

    Doc Holliday


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