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Sunday, 25 October 2026 · Kingdom and Rebel

Journey #013 answers

Every answer that counted, from the commonest to the rarest. Not played it yet? Play this journey first.

Question 1 · Irish life

Name a place a Rose of Tralee winner has represented.

The Rose centre (county, city, region or country) of any overall winner, 1959 to 2026. A winner's hometown counts only if it was her centre.

Robin10 km

  • Dublin (1959, 1962, 1969, 1989, 2003)

Hedgehog25 km

  • Cork (1961, 1991, 1999)
  • New York (1974, 1976, 2000, 2007, 2023)

Red Fox40 km

  • Galway (1980, 1992, 1998)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Boston (1963, 1985)
  • Chicago (1960, 1987, 2016)
  • Laois (2025)
  • Limerick (1984, 1994, 2019)
  • London (1975, 2009, 2010)
  • Mayo (2005)
  • Tipperary (2008)
  • Tralee (1964)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Belfast (1965, 1973, 1979)
  • Clare (1968)
  • Kilkenny (2004)
  • Meath (2015)
  • New Zealand (1966, 1988, 2024)
  • Offaly (2017)
  • Perth (Australia, 1995, 2001)
  • Philadelphia (2014)
  • Texas (2013)
  • Waterford (1977, 1983, 2018)
  • Westmeath (2022, 2026)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Birmingham (1967, 1981)
  • France (1997)
  • Germany (1990)
  • Holyoke (Massachusetts, 1970)
  • Italy (2002)
  • Leeds (1986)
  • Luxembourg (2012)
  • Miami (Florida, 1971)
  • Midlands (UK, 1993)
  • Pennsylvania (1978)
  • Peterborough (Ontario, 1982)
  • Queensland (Australia, 2006, 2011)
  • Switzerland (1972)
  • Toronto (Canada, 1996)

Question 2 · Geography

Name a town or village in County Wexford.

Any place in the county listed as a town, village or settlement by logainm.ie, CSO Census 2022, the County Development Plan or Wikipedia.

Robin10 km

  • Wexford

Hedgehog25 km

  • Enniscorthy
  • Gorey

Red Fox40 km

  • New Ross
  • Rosslare

Irish Hare55 km

  • Bunclody
  • Courtown
  • Kilmore Quay
  • Rosslare Harbour

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Castlebridge
  • Curracloe
  • Duncannon
  • Ferns
  • Fethard-on-Sea
  • Wellingtonbridge

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Adamstown
  • Annagh Cross
  • Arthurstown
  • Askamore
  • Baldwinstown
  • Ballaghkeen
  • Ballinaboola
  • Ballindaggin
  • Ballycanew
  • Ballycarney
  • Ballycogly
  • Ballycullane
  • Ballyduff
  • Ballyedmond
  • Ballyellis
  • Ballyfad
  • Ballygarrett
  • Ballyhack
  • Ballyhogue
  • Ballymitty
  • Ballymoney
  • Ballymurn
  • Ballyoughter
  • Ballyroebuck
  • Ballysimon
  • Ballythomas
  • Ballywilliam
  • Bannow
  • Barntown
  • Bellfield
  • Blackwater
  • Boolavogue
  • Bree
  • Bridgetown
  • Broadway
  • Cahore
  • Caim
  • Camolin
  • Campile
  • Carne
  • Carrick
  • Carrig-on-Bannow
  • Carrowreagh
  • Cassagh
  • Castledockrell
  • Castletown
  • Cleariestown
  • Clogh
  • Clohamon
  • Clologue
73 more
  • Clongeen
  • Clonroche
  • Coolgreany
  • Courtnacuddy
  • Craanford
  • Crossabeg
  • Cullenstown
  • Cushinstown
  • Davidstown
  • Donard
  • Duncormick
  • Ferrybank
  • Ford
  • Foulkesmill
  • Galbally
  • Glenbrien
  • Glynn
  • Gusserane
  • Hollyfort
  • Horeswood
  • Inch
  • Irishtown
  • Kilcotty
  • Killanne
  • Killenagh
  • Killinick
  • Killinierin
  • Killurin
  • Kilmore
  • Kilmuckridge
  • Kilmyshall
  • Kilrane
  • Kiltealy
  • Liskinfere
  • Marshalstown
  • Mayglass
  • Milehouse
  • Monageer
  • Monamolin
  • Monaseed
  • Morriscastle
  • Murrintown
  • Newbawn
  • Oulart
  • Our Lady's Island
  • Oylegate
  • Palace
  • Piercetown
  • Poulpeasty
  • Raheen
  • Ramsgrange
  • Rathangan
  • Rathgarogue
  • Rathnure
  • Riverchapel
  • Rosbercon
  • Saltmills
  • Screen
  • Slade
  • Strahart
  • Tacumshane
  • Taghmon
  • Tagoat
  • Tara Hill
  • Tellarought
  • Templeshanbo
  • The Ballagh
  • The Harrow
  • The Rock
  • Tombrack
  • Tomhaggard
  • Watch House Village
  • Wells

Question 3 · Music & entertainmentQuestion from a player

Name a female Irish singer.

Any Irish woman known as a singer, from either side of the border, solo or in a band, any genre, past or present.

Robin10 km

  • Sinéad O'Connor

Hedgehog25 km

  • Dolores O'Riordan

Red Fox40 km

  • Enya
  • Mary Black

Irish Hare55 km

  • Andrea Corr
  • CMAT
  • Dana
  • Imelda May

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Bridie Gallagher
  • Brooke Scullion
  • Caroline Corr
  • Dolores Keane
  • Eimear Quinn
  • Frances Black
  • Linda Martin
  • Lisa Hannigan
  • Lisa McHugh
  • Margo
  • Mary Byrne
  • Mary Coughlan
  • Moya Brennan
  • Nadine Coyle
  • Niamh Kavanagh
  • Philomena Begley
  • Róisín Murphy
  • Ruby Murray
  • Samantha Mumba
  • Sharon Corr
  • Una Healy

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Aby Coulibaly
  • Aebh Kelly
  • Ailbhe Reddy
  • Ailish Tynan
  • Aimee
  • Aimee Banks
  • Aimee Carty
  • Áine Cahill
  • Áine Furey
  • Áine O'Dwyer
  • Alana Henderson
  • Alex Sharpe
  • Alison Browner
  • Alison O'Donnell
  • Allie Sherlock
  • Allison Harding
  • Andrea Begley
  • Angela Farrell
  • Angela Feeney
  • Anita Reeves
  • Ann Breen
  • Ann Mulqueen
  • Ann Murray
  • Ann Scott
  • Anna Leah
  • Anna Mieke
  • Anne Brolly
  • Anne Bushnell
  • Anne Byrne
  • Anne Gildea
  • Anne Nolan
  • Annika Kilkenny
  • Annmarie O'Riordan
  • Aoife Doyle
  • Aoife Nessa Frances
  • Aoife Ní Fhearraigh
  • Aoife Scott
  • April Lawlor
  • Barbara Gogan
  • Barbara Law
  • Bernadette Greevy
  • Bernie Nolan
  • Beverley O'Sullivan
  • Biig Piig
  • Billie Barry
  • Bobbi Arlo
  • Briana Corrigan
  • Brídín Brennan
  • Brigid Boden
  • Brigid Mae Power
297 more
  • Brigid Tunney
  • Bronagh Gallagher
  • Caitlín Maude
  • Caitríona O'Leary
  • Camille O'Sullivan
  • Caoimhe Barry
  • Cara Dillon
  • Cara O'Sullivan
  • Carly Smithson
  • Carmel Gunning
  • Carmel Quinn
  • Catherine Hayes
  • Catherine McGrath
  • Cathy Davey
  • Cathy Jordan
  • Cathy Maguire
  • Ceara Grehan
  • Celaviedmai
  • Celine Byrne
  • Chloë Agnew
  • Christina Bennington
  • Christine Tobin
  • Ciara Newell
  • Claire Roche
  • Claire Sproule
  • Clare Quinn
  • Clare Sands
  • Claudia Boyle
  • Claudia Buckley
  • Cliona Hagan
  • Clodagh Rodgers
  • Clodagh Simonds
  • Coleen Nolan
  • Cosha
  • Dawn Martin
  • Deirdre O'Connell
  • Deirdre Shannon
  • Delia Murphy
  • Denise Chaila
  • Denise Nolan
  • Donna McCaul
  • Donna Taggart
  • Éabha McMahon
  • Edel Vaughan
  • Edele Lynch
  • Eileen Donaghy
  • Eileen Reid
  • Eithne Ní Uallacháin
  • Elaine Murtagh
  • Elayne Harrington
  • Eleanor McEvoy
  • Eleanor Shanley
  • Elizabeth Cronin
  • Emma Garnett
  • Emma Langford
  • Erica-Cody
  • Ethna Campbell
  • Eve Belle
  • Farah Elle
  • Fionnuala Sherry
  • Flo McSweeney
  • Gearóidín Bhreathnach
  • Gemma Craven
  • Gemma Doherty
  • Gemma Dunleavy
  • Gemma Hasson
  • Gemma Hayes
  • Geraldine Brannigan
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald
  • Geraldine McGowan
  • Gloria
  • Gráinne Yeats
  • Hannah Peel
  • Hazel Kaneswaran
  • Heather Harper
  • Heidi Talbot
  • Helen Gilliland
  • Helena Jessie
  • Hilary Woods
  • Inni-K
  • Iona Lynch
  • Jackie Lee
  • Janet Devlin
  • Janet Grogan
  • Jayne Wisener
  • Jazzy
  • Jenny Lindfors
  • Jess Kavanagh
  • Jessie Buckley
  • Joanne Hogg
  • Julie Dawson
  • Julie Feeney
  • Julie-Anne Dineen
  • Juliet Turner
  • Juliette Crosbie
  • Karan Casey
  • Karen Cowley
  • Kasey Smith
  • Kathleen Watkins
  • Kathy Durkin
  • Katie Kim
  • Katie McMahon
  • Kaz Hawkins
  • Keavy Lynch
  • Kerri Ann
  • Kerri Quinn
  • Kim Jackson
  • Kristyn Getty
  • Kynsy
  • Laoise
  • Lara McDonnell
  • Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola
  • Laura Cunningham
  • Laura Izibor
  • Laura Sheeran
  • Lauren Kinsella
  • Lea Heart
  • Leah McFall
  • Leanne Harte
  • Leanne Moore
  • Lesley Roy
  • Leslie Dowdall
  • Lily Aron
  • Linda Nolan
  • Lindsay Armaou
  • Lisa Canny
  • Lisa Kelly
  • Lisa Lambe
  • Lisa O'Neill
  • Lisa Stanley
  • Liz Bonnin
  • Louise Morrissey
  • Louise Patricia Crane
  • Luan Parle
  • Lucia Evans
  • Lucy Blue
  • Lucy McWilliams
  • Lynn Hilary
  • Lyra
  • Maeve O'Donovan
  • Mags McCarthy
  • Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill
  • Maija Sofia
  • Máire Breatnach
  • Máire Ní Chathasaigh
  • Máire Ní Chéileachair
  • Máire Ní Ghuairim
  • Máire Ní Scolaí
  • Mairead Buicke
  • Mairéad Carlin
  • Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
  • Máirín O'Donovan
  • Maisie McDaniel
  • Maite Kelly
  • Majella Murphy
  • Majella O'Donnell
  • Margaret Barry
  • Margaret Burke Sheridan
  • Margaret Healy
  • Margaret Keys
  • Maria Christian
  • Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • Maria Keogh
  • Maria McCool
  • Maria Somerville
  • Marlene Enright
  • Mary Cassidy
  • Mary Dillon
  • Mary Duff
  • Mary Hegarty
  • Mary McPartlan
  • Mary O'Hara
  • Mary Staunton
  • Maura O'Connell
  • Maureen Nolan
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Maureen Potter
  • Maxi
  • Maxine Linehan
  • May Belfort
  • MayKay
  • Méav Ní Mhaolchatha
  • Megan Walsh
  • Michelle Lally
  • Milkie Way
  • Molly Donnery
  • Molly Lynch
  • Molly Sterling
  • Morgan MacIntyre
  • Morgana
  • Muireann Bradley
  • Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
  • Muirgen O'Mahony
  • Muriel Day
  • Nadia Forde
  • Naisrín Elsafty
  • Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca
  • Nell Mescal
  • Nell Ní Chróinín
  • Niamh de Búrca
  • Niamh Farrell
  • Niamh Ní Charra
  • Niamh Parsons
  • Niamh Perry
  • Niamh Regan
  • Nina Bertini-Humphreys
  • Nina Hynes
  • Nóirín Ní Riain
  • Nonie Lynch
  • Nora Cleary
  • Nóra Ní Shíndile
  • Norma Burrowes
  • Nuala Kennedy
  • Nyota Parker
  • Olivia Douglas
  • Órla Fallon
  • Orla Gartland
  • Orla Ní Fhinneadha
  • Ottilie Patterson
  • Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
  • Pamela Connolly
  • Patricia Cahill
  • Patricia Quinn
  • Paula Murrihy
  • Pauline Scanlon
  • Peggy Dell
  • Rachael Baptist
  • Rachael Lavelle
  • Rachel Tucker
  • Radie Peat
  • Rebecca Winckworth
  • Rebekah Fitch
  • Regina Nathan
  • Rita Connolly
  • Rita Keane
  • Roberta Howett
  • ROE
  • Róis
  • Róise Mhic Ghrianna
  • Róisín Elsafty
  • Róisín O
  • Róisín White
  • Rosa D'Erina
  • Rose Brennan
  • Rose-Marie
  • Rosie Carney
  • RuthAnne
  • Sallay-Matu Garnett
  • Sally Oldfield
  • Sandie Jones
  • Sandy Kelly
  • Saoirse Casey
  • Sarah Ann O'Neill
  • Sarah Corcoran
  • Sarah Makem
  • Sarah McTernan
  • Sarimah Ibrahim
  • Shonagh Daly
  • Sibéal Ní Chasaide
  • Síle Denvir
  • Sinéad Lohan
  • Sinéad Madden
  • Sinéad Mulvey
  • Sinéad O'Carroll
  • Sinéad Quinn
  • Sinéad Sheppard
  • Siobhan Fahey
  • Siobhán O'Brien
  • Sorcha Ní Ghuairim
  • Sorcha Richardson
  • Soulé
  • Spider
  • Stephanie McKeon
  • Susan McCann
  • Susan McFadden
  • Susan McKeown
  • Susan O'Neill
  • Suzanne Murphy
  • Suzanne Rhatigan
  • Sylvia O'Brien
  • Tara Blaise
  • Tara Erraught
  • Tara Lee
  • Tara Lynne O'Neill
  • Tara McNeill
  • Tina Reynolds
  • Tolü Makay
  • Tracey K
  • Treasa Ní Cheannabháin
  • Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
  • Twink
  • Úna Palliser
  • Ursula Burns
  • Veda Beaux Reves
  • Veronica Dunne
  • Virginia Kerr
  • Wallis Bird

Question 4 · History

Name a game children played on Irish streets years ago.

Any street, yard or field game children played before the 2000s, alone or in a gang.

Hedgehog25 km

  • Hide and seek
  • Tag (tig, tip or chasing)

Red Fox40 km

  • Hopscotch (beds, or piggy beds)
  • Marbles
  • Skipping
  • Tip the can (or kick the can)

Irish Hare55 km

  • British bulldog
  • Conkers
  • Football (kicking a ball about)
  • Knick knack (knocking on doors and running)
  • Red Rover
  • Relievio
  • Rounders

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Cops and robbers
  • Elastics
  • Forty forty
  • Handball
  • Hurling (pucking a ball about)
  • IRA (the playground chasing game)
  • Jacks (or fivestones)
  • Kerbs (bouncing the ball off the kerb)
  • Leapfrog
  • Manhunt
  • Piggy in the middle
  • Queenie-i-o (ball over the shoulder)
  • Red arse
  • Simon Says
  • Statues
  • Stuck in the mud
  • What's the time, Mr Wolf?

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Ball against the wall
  • Basketball
  • Bike races
  • Blind man's buff
  • Cat's cradle
  • Chain tig (or chain tag)
  • Clapping games
  • Cowboys and Indians
  • Cricket
  • Duck, duck, goose
  • Dusty bluebells
  • Follow the leader
  • Go-karts (built from pram wheels)
  • Grandmother's footsteps
  • Headers and volleys
  • Here we go round the mulberry bush
  • Hoop and stick
  • Hula hoop
  • London Bridge
  • Mother may I
  • Off-ground tag
  • Oranges and lemons
  • Pitch and toss
  • Red light, green light
  • Ring a ring o' rosies
  • Road bowling
  • Rugby
  • Sardines
  • Skittles
  • Soldiers
  • Spin the bottle
  • Spinning top
  • Tennis
  • The big ship sails
  • The farmer wants a wife
  • Three and in
  • Tip and run
  • Truth or dare
  • Tug of war
  • World Cup (knockout street football)
  • Yo-yo

Question 5 · SportQuestion from Orlaith in Galway

Name anyone who has won an Olympic medal for Ireland.

Gold, silver or bronze at the Summer Games, competing for Ireland since 1924. The 1924 and 1948 art competition medals count too.

Robin10 km

  • Katie Taylor

Hedgehog25 km

  • Sonia O'Sullivan

Red Fox40 km

  • Kellie Harrington
  • Michael Carruth

Irish Hare55 km

  • Annalise Murphy
  • Daniel Wiffen
  • Gary O'Donovan
  • John Treacy
  • Kenny Egan
  • Michelle Smith
  • Paddy Barnes
  • Paul O'Donovan
  • Rhys McClenaghan
  • Ronnie Delany

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Aidan Walsh
  • Cian O'Connor
  • Darren Sutherland
  • Fintan McCarthy
  • John Joe Nevin
  • Michael Conlan
  • Mona McSharry
  • Pat O'Callaghan
  • Rob Heffernan
  • Wayne McCullough

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Aifric Keogh
  • Bob Tisdall
  • Daire Lynch
  • David Wilkins
  • Eimear Lambe
  • Emily Hegarty
  • Fiona Murtagh
  • Fred Tiedt
  • Freddie Gilroy
  • Hugh Russell
  • Jack B. Yeats
  • James Wilkinson
  • Jim McCourt
  • John Caldwell
  • John McNally
  • Letitia Hamilton
  • Oliver St John Gogarty
  • Philip Doyle
  • Tony Byrne

Question 6 · Culture & language

Name a school subject in Irish.

Any subject taught in Irish primary or secondary schools, past or present, by its Irish name. Languages count.

Robin10 km

  • Gaeilge (Irish)

Hedgehog25 km

  • Béarla (English)
  • Mata (Maths)

Red Fox40 km

  • Stair (History)
  • Tíreolaíocht (Geography)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Ceol (Music)
  • Corpoideachas (PE)
  • Ealaín (Art)
  • Eolaíocht (Science)
  • Fraincis (French)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Bitheolaíocht (Biology)
  • Ceimic (Chemistry)
  • Creideamh (Religion)
  • Eacnamaíocht Bhaile (Home Economics)
  • Fisic (Physics)
  • Gearmáinis (German)
  • Spáinnis (Spanish)
  • Staidéar Gnó (Business Studies)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Adhmadóireacht (Woodwork)
  • Araibis (Arabic)
  • Cuntasaíocht (Accounting)
  • Drámaíocht (Drama)
  • Eabhrais (Hebrew)
  • Eacnamaíocht (Economics)
  • Eolaíocht Talmhaíochta (Agricultural Science)
  • Folláine (Wellbeing)
  • Grafaic (Graphics, DCG)
  • Gréigis (Greek)
  • Innealtóireacht (Engineering)
  • Iodáilis (Italian)
  • Laidin (Latin)
  • Léann Clasaiceach (Classical Studies)
  • Líníocht Theicniúil (Technical Drawing)
  • Liotuáinis (Lithuanian)
  • Matamaitic Fheidhmeach (Applied Maths)
  • Miotalóireacht (Metalwork)
  • OSPS (SPHE)
  • OSSP (CSPE)
  • Polainnis (Polish)
  • Polaitíocht agus Sochaí (Politics and Society)
  • Portaingéilis (Portuguese)
  • Ríomheolaíocht (Computer Science)
  • Rúisis (Russian)
  • Seapáinis (Japanese)
  • Sínis (Mandarin Chinese)
  • Staidéar Foirgníochta (Construction Studies)
  • Teicneolaíocht (Technology)

Question 7 · General knowledge

Name an Irish Nobel Prize winner.

Nobel laureates born on the island of Ireland or holding Irish citizenship, from 1901 to 2026.

Robin10 km

  • Seamus Heaney (Literature, 1995)

Hedgehog25 km

  • John Hume (Peace, 1998)
  • Samuel Beckett (Literature, 1969)
  • W. B. Yeats (Literature, 1923)

Red Fox40 km

  • David Trimble (Peace, 1998)
  • George Bernard Shaw (Literature, 1925)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Ernest Walton (Physics, 1951)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Betty Williams (Peace, 1976)
  • Mairead Maguire (Peace, 1976)
  • Seán MacBride (Peace, 1974)
  • William C. Campbell (Physiology or Medicine, 2015)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Erwin Schrödinger (Physics, 1933)