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How closely have you paid attention to this week’s sporting headlines?

1. Whose 75th minute point for Tyrone condemned Kildare to a third successive Allianz Football League Division 1 defeat last Sunday?
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Peter Harte
Niall Morgan

Mattie Donnelly
Connor McAliskey
2. Following an incident in Edinburgh after their defeat to Scotland, how many members of the French squad were dropped for their game against Italy next week?
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3
5

8
11
3. Which TV station showed last weekend's League of Ireland curtain raiser as Cork City beat Dundalk in the President's Cup?
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RTÉ 2
eir Sport

TV3
None
4. American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won her first gold medal of the 2018 Winter Olympics in which discipline?
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Giant slalom
Slalom

Super-G
Downhill
5. Which player was not a member of the so-called 'super group' for the first round of the Genesis Open on Thursday?
INPHO
Tiger Woods
Phil Mickelson

Justin Thomas
Rory McIlroy
6. Dublin ladies footballers beat which county in Croke Park for the first time last weekend?
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Donegal
Cork

Monaghan
Kerry
7. Who scored Ireland's opening try as they beat Italy 56-19 in their second game of this year's Six Nations?
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Jacob Stockdale
Bundee Aki

Conor Murray
Robbie Henshaw
8. Which former boss was re-appointed Scotland manager this week?
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George Burley
Walter Smith

Alex McLeish
Berti Vogts
9. How many days did it take ex-Connacht and Leinster lock Damian Browne to row the Atlantic as part of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge?
Ted Martin
64
69

75
80
10. Which Irish Olympian announced her retirement at the age of 27 this week?
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Sinead Lynch
Claire Lambe

Sanita Puspure
Annalise Murphy
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Gold
Top of the pile, you really were paying attention this week.
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Silver
Not too bad at all. If you'd paid a little more attention you could have won the gold.
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Bronze
The questions just didn't suit you this time, try again next week.
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You scored out of !
Wooden Spoon
Well now. There's not much we can say about that. Do you even like sport?
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