Quiz 2013 - CrannógBuí National School

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QUIZ COUNTY FINALS

We were shaking at the knees. This is the final. The county final. We have to win. The whole school is depending on us. If we don't do well we have a spelling test tomorrow. Noooooooooooooo! The first question. "What does I.R.F.U. stand for? We all look at Joe. He's our sport correspondent. Irish Rugby Football Union came the answer. After the first round Dylan looks over at the board. 9 points! Aww the leaders are on 10 points. We're losing by a point! Round 2. History and Geography. We get 7 points. On to round 3. Hand the sheet to Joe! We get 9 points! Next is the picture round. We get 8 points. Then it's the break. We get crisps and a drink. We look at our score. 32! The highest score was 33. We were tying in 2nd place. Round 5. TV and Entertainment. Yeah that's my strong point. We got 9 points. We were tying in 2nd place still. Round 6. General Knowledge. We got 7 questions right. Then they start doing speeches. Annoying! They announced the results. St. Nauls-3rd /Crannóg Buí and a Ballybofey school. We were in a tiebreaker for first. First question. What did Percy Shaw invent to help drivers at night? We put cat's eyes. So did the other team. It was the right answer! There had to be another tiebreaker. 2nd question. What is the name of Margaret Thatcher's late husband? Yesssssssssss! We knew it. We put Denis. The other team put John. The answer was…………..DENIS! We won. We got a big shield for the school and for ourselves we got a plaque and a schoolbag. We'll be celebrating into next week.
Éimear Boyle

The Quiz

Before we qualified for the county final we had to win the Glenties Garda quiz. We only got 4 questions wrong from 60 questions and we won the quiz by about 5 points. We were delighted by that and we didn't expect to win anything else. On Thursday the 11th of April it was the day of the quiz county final. The quiz was on at 19.30 in the Lorreto Convent in Letterkenny. We were always about 3rd and going up to the last round we were joint second and one point of the lead. The last round was very hard and we got seven points. We thought we had lost. But it went to a tiebreaker for first and second place. Both teams got the first question right. We got the second question right but the other team got it wrong so we won the county finals. I really enjoyed the quiz and it was great to win it. By Joe

THE QUIZ COUNTY FINALS!!

On Thursday 11th of April we went to the county finals in the Loreto convent in Letterkenny. We were roughly around 3rd- 4th the whole way through. Some of the questions were really hard, but some were quite easy. After the last round we were sure we weren't in the top three. The quiz master announced the third prize winner, who I think was St. Nauls. Then he announced that there was a tie breaker. Then we thought for definite that we were 4th or worse. He said "The tiebreaker was between Scoil Crannóg Buí and (another school.)" We were delighted. We nearly went through the roof with excitement!!!!! The first tiebreaker question was 'Percy Shaw invented which road item which greatly helps drivers at night?' The answer was cat's eyes. Another tie breaker. The next question was 'what is the name of Margaret Thatcher's husband'. The answer was Denis Thatcher. The other team didn't get it! We won!!!!!! We were over the moon. Next thing we knew cameras were going off all around us and we were being handed a big, shiny plaque. We were jumping up and down from excitement. But we were worn out and it was time to go home. When we went to bed but we didn't get much sleep as we were too giddy. By Amy Boyd.