Joe Carroll's Curiosity Corner: Sporting Quizzes and Trivia

KNOW YOUR INITIALS QUIZ

For this edition the answers are all BG. Can you get them all? 

1: One of Louth GAA’s best and most popular footballers

2: He dazzled every time he stepped up to the oche

3: It’s where you’re first told to learn to kick with both feet, keep your eye on the ball and pay attention to whoever is over the team

4: There was nothing childish about this Louth full-back of a few years ago

5: He rode the winners of some of the best National Hunt races

6: Not the Irish actor, but a TV racing personality of the same name

7: It has to be trimmed to perfection for the ladies with designer plimsolls and the men in white slacks

8: His brother, Jimmy, was also a top English League player

9: An Oriel warrior

10: A prolific English soccer writer of a few years ago

HE SAID

“I want a ruling. I want to know which club to hit this guy with.”  Hubert Green, the former US Open winner, after a television buggy had been driven over his ball.

THAT’S BAD LUCK

Irish jockey, Dougie Costello, was looking forward to riding at the Cheltenham Festival, starting on a Tuesday with several good mounts lined up, but broke his ankle in a fall at Stratford on the Monday.....

Kerry great, Maurice Fitzgerald, suffered a serious leg injury while warming up for an All-Ireland final and missed the match.....

Sinking a three-foot putt on the last would have given Doug Sanders the 1970 British Open title, but he fluffed it, and was then beaten by Jack Nicklaus in the play-off.....

Crisp, ridden by Richard Pitman, led the 1973 Aintree Grand National from the very start, but was beaten on the line by Red Rum.....

Limerick led Offaly by the proverbial mile as the 1994 All-Ireland hurling final drew to a close, but a flurry of late scores put the Faithful in front.....

Pietri Dorando crossed the line ahead of the rest in the 1908 London Olympic marathon, but because he’d been helped back onto his feet by stewards after falling five times late on in the race, the Italian was disqualified, the gold going to an American.....

SPORTING ANAGRAM

Can you unjumble this work using the below clue?

It has to be jumped at Aintree: Vales Broken Into (10, 5)

ANSWERS

Know Your Initials: 1 Benny Gaughran, 2 Bobby George, 3 Back Garden, 4 ‘Baby’ (Colin) Goss, 5 Barry Geraghty, 6 Brian Gleeson, 7 Bowling Green, 8 Brian Greenhoff, 9 Brian Gartland; 10 Brian Glanville. It has to be jumped at Aintree: Valentine’s Brook.