The Town I Know So Well Quiz #3

SHS The Town I Know So Well
Welcome to round 3 - In what year? Please answer the 10 questions below and click submit when done to see your score:

1. In what year was the Knitwear Company, Adria Ltd., established in Strabane?

2. In what year were the Five Tinnies erected at the Lifford Road site?

3. In what year did Strabane Grammar School open at Milltown?

4. St. Joseph’s Brass Band celebrated an historic birthday in 1997.
What was the birthday?

5. A new T.V. Station opened at Sheriff’s Mountain in Derry in 1957, bringing B.B.C.T.V. to the Strabane area. In what year did the Koram Hill mast outside Strabane open, bringing commercial television to Strabane?

6. In what year did Strabane Cricket Club win the All Ireland Schweppes Cup?

7. Strabane was well known for its famous Carnivals, events to raise money for school building. In what year was the first Carnival held?

8. Hugh O’Neill met Rory O’Donnell at Ballindrait on 13th September. They proceeded to Rathmullen where they took a boat journey to Europe. This event was famously known as “The Flight of the Earls”. In what year did this occur?

Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone

9. In the book “Workhouses of the North West” in what year did the Strabane Workhouse receive its first paupers?

10. Brian O’Nolan, alias Flann O’Brien, died in Dublin on 1st April.
In what year did he die?

Brian O'Nolan Statue

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