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Quiz: How well do you really know RTÉ's The Sunday Game?

It’s back next weekend for a 39th season.

Launch of RTÉ Sport's 2017 GAA Championship Coverage The Sunday Game panel for 2017. Ryan Byrne / INPHO Ryan Byrne / INPHO / INPHO

ANOTHER SUMMER AND another season of The Sunday Game beckons.

RTÉ’s flagship GAA programme returns for a 39th season with next weekend’s opener. 

But how good is your knowledge of The Sunday Game? Test yourself.

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What year was The Sunday Game first broadcast?
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1977
1975

1981
1979
And in what year did RTÉ start showing The Sunday Game Live at the start of the championship?
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1995
1997

1991
1993
What county is current presenter Michael Lyster from?
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Mayo
Tipperary

Galway
Clare
True or false - the highlights programme was rebranded as 'The Game On Monday' in the 90s?
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True
False
Who notably described new pundit Colm Cooper as 'a two-trick pony'?
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Eamonn O'Hara
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Tomás Ó Sé

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Tommy Lyons
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Martin McHugh
Which current pundit previously presented the Sunday Game highlights programme from 2004 to 2009?
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Cyril Farrell
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Pat Spillane

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Tomás Mulcahy
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Colm O'Rourke
'It's pure constipated hurling' - Who gave that eloquent summary of Dublin in a 2013 championship game?
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Ger Loughnane
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Michael Duignan

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Eddie Brennan
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Liam Sheedy
Can you name the very first presenter of The Sunday Game?
Sean Óg Ó Ceallacháin
Bill O'Herlihy

Jim Carney
Ger Canning
'They know as much about serious level sport as I do about the sleeping habits of the Ayatollah' - Which hurling pundit stated this line in 2015?
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Donal Óg Cusack
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Henry Shefflin

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Donal O'Grady
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Anthony Daly
Finally who composed Jagerlatein - the theme tune for The Sunday Game?
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James First
James Middle

James Second
James Last
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Gold
Top of the pile, you really were paying attention.
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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.
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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 The Sunday Game?
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