Christmas Quiz
1. The UDA's former brains, John White, was reunited with his
lost pet. What was it?
2. What was the title of a BBC Radio 4 series profiling British
Secretaries of State in the Six Counties?
3. Who was caught on air at the EU leaders, summit in Barcelona
saying: "What a load of old crap that was."
- Spanish Premier Jose Maria Aznar
- Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair
- Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi
4. Who did Noel Gallagher of the Manchester-Irish band Oasis
threaten to sue if they didn't stop pirating Wonderwall and other
Oasis numbers in their publicity videos?
5. Where did the most wanted member of Greece's November 17th
guerrillas hang out while on the run from Interpol, the FBI,
Scotland Yard and 17,000 police before handing himself over?
6. Which washed-up soccer star of the 70s whined that the Peace
Process has been "a farce from the start" and wants Gerry Adams
censored?
7. Where was Fine Gael Foreign Affairs spokesperson Jim O'Keeffe
speaking about when he demanded: "There should be an end to
political violence and illegal occupation of land."
8. Miss Ireland Catriona Supple got newsmen hot under the collar
after she personally posed with a Cork East general election
candidate. Why?
9. A senior official in which British agency told BBC Governor
Sir Ricahrd Eyre as a film producer in 1979: "If I had my way,
we'd line all the Catholics up against the wall and shoot the
fucking lot of them."
10. A poll by Whitaker's Political Almanac showed that only 25
per cent of Britons recognised Saddam Hussein and just 6 per cent
Robert Mugabe. Which TV public enemy outpolled them and was
recognised by 44 per cent of Brits in an identity parade of bad
boys?
11. Uzil Gal's passing in September was mourned by the Garda
Special Branch. Why?
12. Two members of the North's Human Rights Commission resigned,
describing it as "toothless" and its remit under the Good Friday
Agreement compromised by the British Government. One was
Christine Bell. Who was the other?
13. What did the English Football Association promise to send to
Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban?
- Vinnie Jones
- Prawn sandwiches
- Goalposts
- The towers from Wembley Stadium
14. Baron Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdin Wrottesley, a former
British Arm officer in Crossmaglen, sported Ireland's colours in
the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. In which slippery sport?
15. What controversial style of dancing did Lady Sylvia Hermon
say that the Ulster Unionist Party wanted people to enjoy?
16. What sort of dancing is UFF Milltown killer Michael Stone
concentrating on in his art studies in Peter Stringfellow's
London nightclub?
17. Who had to issue a public apology for using a government jet
to open an off licence for an old lover?
- Jeffrey Archer
- Bertie Ahern
- Charlie McCreevy
- Mary Harney
- Sammy Wilson
18. The Ulster Unionist Party cited a US legal precedent set by
two American organisations on the right to march where you're not
wanted. Which two?
19. Britain's Prince Charles Windsor, Colonel in Chief of the
Parachute Regiment, visited Dublin almost exactly on the 30th
anniversary of Bloody Sunday. How many RTE newshounds asked him
about Bloody Sunday?
20. What did KFC's Colonel Sanders not find finger-lickin, good
about what UDA brigadiers did to his shop in the Shankill Road?
21. What almost choked George W. Bush?
- A chicken bone
- A fish bone
- A pretzel
- A tortilla chip
- A Grand Jury probe into electoral fraud
22. Which author said: "You've only got to look at the suicide
rate to know that the SAS has got a problem."
Jeffrey Archer
Andy McNab
Danny Morrison
General Anthony Farrar Hockley
23. SF Presidente Gerry Adams appeared on the front-cover of
which celebrated magazine alongside "the new face of Wonderbra"?
- Viz
- VIP
- Private Eye
- Phoenix
- Irish Tatler
24. The father of the AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle died a
natural decommissioning. What did he say he would rather have
invented?
25.Of whom was it said, "His monotone fog-horn through his beard
was like listening to RTE via a foul-smelling garden sock"?
- Gerry Daly
- Gerry Adams
- Gerry O'Hare
- Gerry Kelly
- Gerry Anderson
26. Which former British Secretary of State in the Six Counties
said that the IRA were freedom fighters, not terrorists?
27. What did Orangemen in the Battlehill lodge of Portadown boast
on their website was "a badge of honour, not of shame"?
28. Who accused Sinn Fein of "balaclava economics"?
29. Which clothing did medical experts at Birmingham City
Hospital declare can seriously damage your health?
- Smoking jackets
- Balaclavas
- Anoraks
- British Army helmets
30. What did UDA front man Sammy Duddy reveal as his saucy
sideline to raise funds for unionist prisoners?