Bray Emmets GAA Club
Draw Details for August 9 2024
| Prize |
Value |
Winners |
Jackpot
Match 4 numbers to win/share. |
€ 16,600.00 |
0 |
There was no Jackpot winner this week with the Jackpot standing at €16,600. The winner of the Lucky Dip for €25 was Laura Mooney. Congratulations Laura.
Answers to quizzes at end of newsletter
GAA County Nicknames:
Mayo: “The Westerners”
Although Mayo, located on the west coast of Ireland, has collected a few nicknames over the years (including The Maritime County, The Yew County and The Heather County), the Mayo GAA team are usually referred to as simply as The Westerners.
Groaner of the Week:
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot!
Riddle of the Week:
Take off my skin and I won’t cry but you will. What am I?
Seanfhocail na Seachtain:
“Lá milltena móna lá fomhar an chabaiste.”
“The rain that destroys the turf can cause cabbage to grow.”
(What is bad for one thing, is good for another.”
This or That:
Pick between the two items below and see if you’re right.
What killed more Americans: World War 1 or car accidents in the four years after WW 1 ended?
On This Day: On this day in 1936 at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at those games.
Brain Teaser:
A woman is sitting in her hotel room and hears a knock at the door. She opens the door to see a man whom she’s never met before. He says, “I’m sorry, I have made a mistake, I thought this was my room.” He then goes down the corridor and into the elevator. The woman goes back into her room and calls security. What made the woman so suspicious of the man?
Answers to this week’s puzzles:
Riddle of the Week: An Onion
‘This or That’: More Americans died in car crashes in the four years after the war.
Brain Teaser: If he really thought it was his hotel room, he would have tried to open the door—not knock on it first.
