JACK’S SUPER MASTERMIND WIN! WOULD YOU HAVE ANSWERED ALL THESE QUESTIONS?

AMAZING brainbox Jack Meenan was crowned Ireland’s first Junior Mastermind tonight.

It was a stroll in the park for the Castlefin boy.

But there were some tough questions in there.

Here were all the questions – and all his answers!

Would you have got them?

Who is credited with driving the snakes out of Ireland and into the sea? SAINT PATRICK

· The bamboo-eating giant panda is native to which country? CHINA

· What colourless gas, with a faint sharp odour, has the chemical formula CO2? CARBON DIOXIDE

· Which American golfer won the 2012 US Masters at Augusta? BUBBA WATSON

· On which fictional, cobbled English street will you find businesses including ‘Roy’s Rolls’, ‘The Kabin’ and the ‘Corner Shop’? CORONATION STREET

· A leveret is the young of which type of fast-running, long-eared mammal? HARE

· Which English author wrote the two books series about the ‘Famous Five’ and the ‘Secret Seven’? ENID BLYTON

· How many counties are in the province of Connacht? FIVE

· What was the name of the first man-made satellite, launched in 1957, by the former Soviet Union? SPUTNIK 1

· Which popular form of word puzzle consists of a square or rectangular diagram divided into black and white squares? CROSSWORD PUZZLE

· Which American President visited his ancestral home of Dunganstown in County Wexford in 1963? JOHN F. KENNEDY

· The Hindu Kush, located in north-eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan is what sort of geographical feature? A MOUNTAIN RANGE

· At what sport does Tipperary man Eoin Kelly excel? HURLING

· Which cartoon character, which featured in the ‘Shrek’ films, also starred in a self-titled movie in 2011? ‘PUSS IN BOOTS’

· Which country is by far the largest in the world? RUSSIA

· Which former American Vice-President made the movie about global warming entitled ‘An Inconvenient Truth’? AL GORE

· What is the name of the group of islands at the mouth of Galway Bay? ARAN ISLANDS

· What name is given to a male cow? BULL

· Which Scotsman is credited with having invented the television? JOHN LOGIE BAIRD

· The flag of which country features the Star of David? ISRAEL

· Philip Pullman is the author of which award-winning trilogy of books? HIS DARK MATERIALS

· In 2008 in Beijing, which athlete born in Jamaica became the first man in Olympic History to win both the 100m and the 200m races in World Record times? USAIN BOLT

· Which 1982 Steven Spielberg film features a space alien who wants to phone home? E T

· According to ancient Greek mythology, which mountain was the home of the Gods? MOUNT OLYMPUS

· In which War did the Battle of the Somme take place? WORLD WAR ONE

· The LUAS transport system in Dublin has its own colour codes. One line is red. What colour is the other? GREEN

· Katniss Everdeen is the teenage heroine of which series of books, the first of which was recently made into a blockbuster movie? ‘THE HUNGER GAMES’

· In which sport do particpants use a shuttlecock? BADMINTON

· Programmes, which run on a computer, telling the computer what to do, are more commonly known as what? SOFTWARE/APPS

· What sort of weapon, associated with Robin Hood, does a Fletcher make and sell? ARROWS/BOWS

· Which American television series focuses on the adventures of a teenage Clark Kent before he goes to Metropolis? SMALLVILLE

· What is the name of the scale which measures the acidity or basicity of a liquid, whose values fall between zero and fourteen? THE PH SCALE

· According to the old proverb, who will an apple a day keep away? THE DOCTOR

· What colourless, tasteless and odourless liquid has the chemical symbol H20? WATER

· What is the name of the typically box-like kitchen appliance that cooks using high frequency electro-magnetic waves? MICROWAVE OVEN

· The William Webb Ellis Trophy is awarded to the winners of Which Sporting World Cup? RUGBY WORLD CUP

· Chocolate is made from what type of beans? COCOA BEANS

· ‘Waltzing Matilda’ is known as the adopted Anthem of which country in the southern hemisphere? AUSTRALIA

· How many humps does a dromedary have? ONE

· In Germanic and Scandinavian mythology, what is the name of the god of thunder? Thor

· In what Irish city will you find the ‘Jack Lynch Tunnel’? CORK

· Which Middle Eastern country uses the shekel as its unit of currency? ISRAEL

· The author Beatrix Potter’s first book was about a rabbit who wore a blue jacket. What was his name? PETER RABBIT

· The Headquarters of many leading financial institutions are located in Wall Street. In which American city is Wall Street? NEW YORK

· What type of colourful and horned animal, found in Central African forests, is a bongo? ANTELOPE

· What does the double ‘o’ signify for the fictional spy James Bond? A LICENCE TO KILL

· In which European capital city were the first Modern Olympics held in 1896? ATHENS

· Which TD for Cork South Central, who was previously Minister for Foreign Affairs, was elected Leader of Fianna Fáil in January 2011? MICHÉAL MARTIN

· Which British Prince, who is second in line to the throne, married Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey in April 2011? PRINCE WILLIAM

· Which English Premiership football team play their home games at White Hart Lane? TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

· The city of Timbuktu is in which continent? AFRICA

· Canada is officially a bilingual country. English is one of the languages; what is the second? FRENCH

· In which Caribbean country did the reggae music style, popularised by Bob Marley, originate? JAMAICA

· Daniel Fahrenheit devised a scale used for measuring what? TEMPERATURE

· The first non-stop transatlantic flight landed in June 1919 in which Irish county? GALWAY

· Which Irish author writes the book series called ‘Skullduggery Pleasant’? DEREK LANDY

· What is the largest living land animal? ELEPHANT

· Islamabad is the capital of which country in Southern Asia? PAKISTAN

· Name the object hit by the players in ice hockey. PUCK

· In the nursery rhyme, what was the shepherd’s night time delight? RED SKY

· The young of which type of large, usually white, waterfowl is called a cygnet? SWAN

· Which toy derives its name from the Danish words for ‘play well’? LEGO

· Which type of entertainer specialises in balancing and catching items such as balls, plates, and knives? JUGGLER

· What was the name of the War, which was triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August the second, 1990? GULF WAR

· Of which boy band, known for their hits such as ‘All Time Low’ and ‘Glad You Came’ is the Irishman Siva Kaneswaran a member? THE WANTED

· Which Roman ruler had the seventh month of the year named after him in his honour, as he was born during that month? JULIUS CAESAR

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