The CLR Political Quiz …Number 7 …. October 19, 2012
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1. Who is Fianna Fails longest serving TD ?
2. Name the ‘Army Wives’ candidates that stood in the 1989 General Election?
3. What year did Eoghan Harris Resign from The Workers Party?
4. Which TD lists his hobbies as “Hill walking, reading, listening to music. Potting trees and planting them. GAA” ?
5. In the 1976 Dublin South West By-Election what party did Bláthnaid Ní Chinnéide stand for?
6. What former Fianna Fail TD titled his memoirs ‘as i saw it’ ?
7. Which of the following have served in the Seanad? Seamus Heaney , Brian Friel, John Magnier and Vincent O’Brien.
8. Which Senator has a sister an MEP?
9. Which former member of Stiff Little Fingers stood in last years Assembly Elections?
10. Who is this lady?
9) Brian Faloon
10) Alice Glenn
8) Emer Costello’s sister is Senator Mary Moran.
4 sounds like Gerry Adams
1) Willie O’Dea?
6 is Padraig Faulkner. I’ve read it, for my sins. Actually there’s some good stuff in there about the relationship between Haughey and Lynch.
Yep, and all answers correct so far.
Picked up Faulkners book a while back in the bargains downstairs in Hodges Figgis and its not too bad.
Gives a description of politics in the 50s ,60s and 70s with a few good stories. Well worth the 3 euro I paid for it.
You know why I love this site? Because it’s the only place I could find someone else who read Padraig Faulkner’s autobiography. And actually enjoyed it. As I did to be honest.
I’m tempted to ask ‘did it only take a year?’ in response to 3)
7. Friel & Magnier?
Viz tip: enlarge photograph in question ten to make a handy and inexpensive hallowe’en mask!