Joe Carroll's Curiosity Corner: Sporting Quizzes and Trivia

KNOWN YOUR INITIALS Quiz

It’s FR this week

1: I played for, and managed, the Dutch national team.....

2: ......and I played for Italy, as well as a number of English clubs

3: The play at Nos 1, 2 and 3 at The Aviva

4: An American President who had a baseball grounds in New Jersey named after him

5: It’s not a nice time to go out of a knock-out competition......

6:.....nor is this

7: The Killanny area has been home to GAA club teams, Annaghminnon Rovers, Fr Bannons and..........

8: The vast majority of GAA players don’t get this

9: Where you’ll find the Nice Stadium, a venue for the 2016 European Championships

10: Contestants sail round this feature in the world’s biggest offshore race

SHE SAID

“I feel that by winning the silver it will make me crave the gold more and make me appreciate gold more in the future, so I think it is a good experience.”  

Park Sung-Hyun, the South Korea archer, after she’d been beaten in the final of the individual at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. 

Park had been defending the title she won in Athens four years earlier, and although disappointed with having failed in her attempt, didn’t leave without a prized possession; she was part of the winning South Korean team. 

Soon after returning home, she married and retired from the sport. (Park is not to be mistaken for the golfer of much the same name who is currently starring on the USA Golf Tour.)

Inside Track: Ireland come out the best in the meeting of the world’s top two

Heartbreak for DKIT as second half goals see them defeated in Trench Cup Final

COULD YOU IMAGINE THIS?

The day before the vote was taken to decide the venue for the 2012 Olympics, French President, Jacques Chirac, said of Great Britain: “We can’t trust people who have such bad food. After Finland, it’s the country with the worst food.” 

Paris, among the cities in the running to stage the Games, was passed over, London instead getting the nod...

A Longford player had his two-month suspension for verbal abuse of the referee quashed because, in submitting his report, the referee wrote the player’s name in English instead of Irish....

Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper, Kevin Pressman, sent off after just 13 seconds for handling outside the penalty area, said: “I’m not too proud of making this piece of history.”.... 

Daniel Carroll (no relation) set the record as the youngest winner of a rugby union Olympic gold medal as a member of the Australasia team in 1908. 

He won another gold in the same discipline 12 years later, this time playing with the United States....

Bob Paisley had a 57-year association with Liverpool. He came to Anfield from Bishop Auckland in 1939, and between then and his death, in 1996, served as player, trainer, coach, assistant-manager, manager, director and vice-president....

The shortest reign as All-Ireland hurling champions? It has to be Kilkenny’s. 

The Cats won the 1905 title, but the final wasn’t played until the following year. 

By then the 1906 provincial series had got underway.

And just a fortnight after their major All Ireland success, the champions were beaten in the opening round....

Anagram Challenge

Clue: YOU’LL SEE HIM AT A RUGBY MATCH

Duo Chug Jet (5, 5)

ANSWERS

Know Your Initials: 

1 Frank Rijkaard,  2 Fabrizio Ravanelli,  3 Front Row,  4 Franklin Roosevelt,  5 First Round,  6 Final Round,  7 Fane Rangers,  8 Financial Reward, 9 French Riviera, 10 Fastnet Rock. 

You’ll See Him At A Rugby Match: 

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