Bray Emmets GAA Club
Draw Details for March 22 2024
| Prize |
Value |
Winners |
Jackpot
Match 4 numbers to win/share. |
€ 14,600.00 |
0 |
There was no Jackpot winner this week with the Jackpot standing at €14,600. The winner of the Lucky Dip for €25 was Patti Moynihan. Congratulations Patti.
From now on the answers the answers to the various quizzes will be given at the end of the newsletter. This means you don’t have to wait a week for the answers.
GAA Bits & Bobs:
In 1904 a women’s version of hurling is launched. The first official match was played in Co. Meath.
Groaner of the Week:
A barrister was involved in a terrible car crash. The whole side of his BMW was ripped away. When the Gardai arrived on the scene, the barrister was ina state of shock. “My car! My car!” he groaned. The Garda weighed up the extent of his injuries and said “I think you should be more concerned about your arm than your car.” The barrister looked down in horror to where his arm used to be and screamed “My Rolex! My Rolex!”
Riddle of the Week:
Forward I’m not heavy but backward I am. What am I?
Last Week’s Riddle:
If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: 9
This week’s riddle:
Seanfhocail na Seachtain:
“Níonn lámh lámh eile.”
“One hand washes another.”
(You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours)
This or That:
Pick between the two items below and see if you’re right. Afterall you have a 50/50 chance:
Last week’s ‘This or That’ was:
By what percentage do traffic collisions increase or decrease when a traffic light junction is replaced with a roundabout: 37% increase or 37% decrease?
Answer: Collisions decrease by 37% on average and fatalities decrease by 90%.
This Week’s ‘This or That’:
What weighs more: all the plastic in the world or the combined weight of all land animals and fish?
On This Day: On this day in 1987 the National Lottery is launched.
Don’t forget our club Lotto which has a jackpot of €14,700 next week.
Brain Teasers:
Last week’s brain teaser was:
Mr. Murphy is trying to find a butler he can really trust. Out of the four candidates, James, Hudson, Paul, and Steven, he knows that two are honest and the other two are compulsive liars. From what each one of them says, can you work out which two are the liars?
JAMES: “Neither Paul nor Hudson tells the truth.”
HUDSON: “If Steven is a liar, then James is trustworthy.”
PAUL: “If, and only if, James is not an honest person, then Steven, too, has a rather loose attitude to the truth.”
STEVEN: “What Paul said is untrue.”
Answer:
James and Paul are the two liars.
This week’s Brain Teaser:
There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
Focal na Seachtain:
In focal na seachtain I have included a word or phrase that you can try and bring into your speech during the week to help build up the ‘cupla focal.’
‘Tuigim’ = I understand.
e.g. “Do you understand what I’m saying?” … “Tuigim”.
Answers to this week’s puzzles:
Riddle of the Week: The word ‘not’
‘This or That’: The world’s plastic weighs more than the combined weight of all land animals and fish.
Brain Teaser: Heroine
