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5.00pm, 3 Jun 2015
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'Back from the Brink' won the very first William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year back in 2006. Whose autobiography was it?
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Stephen Roche
Paul McGrath

Trevor Brennan
Roy Keane
In what year did Paul Kimmage's 'Rough Ride' win the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in the UK?
1988
1989

1990
1991
John Giles' 2010 autobiography was called what?
A Football Man
My Story

Hold It There
My Life
2010 UK Sports Book of the Year 'Beware of the Dog' was about what sport?
Rugby
Greyhound Racing

Football
Cricket
Christy O'Connor's award-winning autobiography 'The Club' is about which club in particular?
Éire Óg
Cratloe

Kilmurry Ibrickane
St Joseph's Doora-Barefield
Who was the first writer to win both the Irish and UK version of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year?
David Walsh
Paul Kimmage

Vincent Hogan
Duncan Hamilton
Whose autobiography starts with the line... "I guess I should should start with the name. It comes from my grandfather…”
Lar Corbett
Jonny Wilkinson

Ruby Walsh
Iarla Tannian
Which GAA star's autobiography is called 'If You Don’t Know Me, Don’t Judge Me'
Dan Shanahan
Lar Corbett

Donal Óg Cusack
Henry Shefflin
What word is missing from the title of Anna Krien's 'Night Games: [ ], Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport?'
PA
Drugs
Sex

Women
Drink
Which rugby journalist helped Trevor Brennan write 'Heart and Soul'?
Murray Kinsella
Derek Foley

Brendan Fanning
Gerry Thornley
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B
Not too bad, a little more studying and you'd have been 100%
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C
You did enough to get by but you know you can do better.
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I think the less said about that the better. You can always repeat.
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