The Big Irish Times Christmas quiz of 2010

Ten questions on sport by Mary Hannigan


Ten questions on sport by Mary Hannigan

81.Name the golfer who, in February, said of Tiger Woods: "Some of the wives of other players might find it hard to welcome him back into the group", four months before he apologised to his own wife for having an affair?

82.Who was described in March by horse trainer Willie Mullins as Cheltenham's "leading sire"?

83.What sporting television sound in 2010 prompted an English pensioner to call pest control to report her fear that her house was being attacked by a swarm of bees?

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84.What was United States goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann referring to when he said: "Technology is not everything. Scientists came up with the atom bomb. Doesn't mean we should have invented it."

85.To what was the Sun referring with this headline: "Sunny outlook in many areas but depression over Heathrow as shower drifts in from the south."

86.What lengthy sporting record did John Isner and Nicolas Mahut break this year?

87.Which football manager said this year: "Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real" – before going on to award himself a magical "11 out of 10" for his own achievements in 2010?

88.Whose three European medals in 2010 prompted particularly lively celebrations in the Horse and Hound pub in Ballinaboola, Co Wexford?

89.Ryan Tubridy: "There are a few of you now in the squad having ******?" Donncha O'Callaghan: "Ah yeah, it's like everything, it kind of goes in cycles. When the iPhone came out first everyone wanted one." Fill in the blank.

90.Who said farewell this year with: "Everybody put their shoulder in to whatever little part they had. I had a lovely part, the nicest part of all: sitting down in a good seat looking at wonderful players."

Tomorrow

Ten questions on world affairs, by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, plus an entry form for those who want to enter by post