GAA Quiz Book 2: Another 2,000 Gaelic Football and Hurling Questions

416 Prior to 2008, name the only Cork father and son to play in All-Ireland football semi-finals in the last 35 years?

417 Name three of the five Cork hurling selectors who were forced to step down after the players went on strike in 2002?

418 Prior to 2008, five of the top ten scorers in Munster hurling finals were Cork men. Name four of the five?

419 Ray Cummins, Jimmy Barry-Murphy, Denis Coughlan and Brian Murphy all won All-Ireland hurling and football medals with Cork in the 1970s but name the fifth Corkman who also achieved that unique honour?

420 Name the two Cork hurlers who have won All-Stars but who haven’t won an All-Ireland senior title (they both won them in the last 20 years)?

FOOTBALL ALL-STARS (#ulink_db416862-39c2-5de3-b075-f2d0d952cb09)

421 Name the only three brothers to win All-Stars in the same season?

422 Name the two Derry footballers selected on the 2007 All-Star football team?

423 Name the Donegal footballer who was selected corner-back in 2006?

424 Who was Wexford’s first football All-Star?

425 Three of the six All-Star defenders in 2002 were from Armagh. Name two of them?

426 In which season (in the last five years) was there only three counties represented on the football All-Star team?

427 In which position did the late Cormac McAnallen win an All-Star in 2003?

428 Gabriel Irwin was selected as the goalkeeper on the 1989 side. From which county did he hail?

429 Name the only Cavan player to win an All-Star in 1997?

430 How many All-Stars did Meath’s John McDermott win between 1996-99, two, three or four?

431 Name three of the four Kerry players to have six or more All-Stars?

432 Name the only non-Kerry player with six or more All-Stars?

433 True or False? Down’s Mickey Linden won only one All-Star.

434 Name the only Donegal footballer to win an All-Star in the 1980s and in the 1990s?

435 How many All-Stars did Tipperary’s Declan Browne win?

436 Name the two Derry footballers to win four All-Stars?

437 Who was Tyrone’s first All-Star in 1980?

438 Prior to 2008, only three players had won All-Stars even though they had never played in a provincial final in the last decade. Then all three played in a provincial final in 2008. Name two of them?

439 Prior to 2008 and since the inception of the All-Ireland qualifiers in 2001, only two players had won All-Stars even though their county didn’t reach the last 12 of the championship. Name them?

440 Prior to 2008, only three Ulster goalkeepers won All-Stars. Name two of those three (they were all selected in the last 20 years)?

HURLING CAPTAINS’ PARADE (#ulink_aa78cbec-1043-5bd7-84ba-cb808fe2e3c7)

441 Who captained Limerick in the 2007 All-Ireland hurling final?

442 Who captained Kilkenny to the 2006 All-Ireland title?

443 Who led Waterford to the 2007 Munster hurling title?

444 Who captained Portumna to the 2008 All-Ireland club title?

445 In which year did Stephen Frampton lead Waterford to a Munster hurling final?

446 Name the two players who lifted the trophy for Tipperary after their 2008 National League and Munster final success?

447 Who captained Clare in the 2002 All-Ireland hurling final?

448 Name the Cork captain in the 2006 All-Ireland final who subsequently retired afterwards?

449 Name the player who captained Tipperary in the 2006 Munster hurling final and who never played another senior inter-county game afterwards?

450 Name the Cork player who captained his side in the 2003 All-Ireland final and who retired afterwards?

451 In which year did Peter Barry captain Kilkenny to a National league hurling title?

452 True or False? Jimmy Barry-Murphy captained Cork in two All-Ireland finals.

453 Liam Donoghue captained Galway in the 2005 All-Ireland final to become only the third goalkeeper in the last 50 years to captain his county in an All-Ireland senior final. Name one of the other two goalkeepers to achieve that honour?

454 In the last ten years, two sets of two brothers have captained their county in the hurling championship. Name both sets of brothers?

455 Ben O’Connor captained Cork to the 2004 All-Ireland title but in which other year did O’Connor captain Cork?

456 Gary Hanniffy captained Birr to an All-Ireland club title in which year?

457 DJ Carey captained Kilkenny in the 2003 National League final but name the player (nominated by his club as Kilkenny captain) who lifted the trophy?

458 Name the hurler who captained Birr to the 1995 All-Ireland club hurling title and who captained Offaly to the All-Ireland senior final in the same season?

459 Who captained Tipperary to the 1989 All-Ireland title?

460 Name the only hurler to captain his club and county to All-Ireland honours in the same season (he managed it in the last ten seasons)?

DERRY GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (#ulink_67b566b4-56f3-58c6-b488-9164e671ce44)

461 Name the former Armagh All-Ireland winning trainer who joined the Derry senior football backroom team in 2008?

462 Which county did Derry defeat in the 1989 All-Ireland minor football final?