Netd@ys 2001 Competition for Kilkenny Schools

25 questions will be posted on this page during netd@ys 2001 (19th to 23rd November)
Answers to these questions can be found on some of the Kilkenny schools websites.
Links to these can be found on the links page on KEC website.
All Primary and Post primary Schools in the Kilkenny Education Centre catchment area are elegible to enter.

Email your answers to ictkilkenny@ncte.ie before Friday 30th November 2001 and your school could win a digital camera.
One entry only per school please.

Please include teacher name and telephone contact details in your email.

Two winners will be drawn from the correct entries and each winning school will recieve a digital camera.

Questions:

1. In what year did Carrigeen NS celebrate its Centenary?
2. Who wrote the Rose of Mooncoin?  
3. What is the name of the millennium Project in Castlecomer Community
School
4. When was Gairdin an Ghorta officially opened and by whom?
5. Cen bliain a thogadh Scoil Chiaran Naofa?   
6. Cen dath a bhí ar an scoil ansin?     
7. What famous TV "personality" shows his face occasionally on the Scoil
Phadraig website?
8. What is the first seanfhocal on their (Scoil Phadraig) list?
9. What is the name of the Science Project about Sellafield on St Brigids College
website.  
10. What percentage of students surveyed in the project knew where Sellafield was located?  
11. In what year was Kilkenny School Project founded?
12. What was the original location of the KSP?
13. In what year and what townland was Firoda NS built?
14. Where and when was the last hurling match of the 20th century played?
15. What was a coal miner's lunch box called and why was it made of metal?
16. What did Larry Power find in Glenmullen Woods? 
17. What is Bells Heap?
18. In what year and by whom was Kilkenny College founded?
19. What connection did Henry VIII have with the Butlers?
20. Who was involved in the duel at the triangle?
21. Who founded the Presentation School in Kilkenny in 1800?
22. St John's Junior School is commonly known as?
23. When and where did the Model School first open?
24. What was the cause of the argument between Queen Maeve and Ailill?
25. Who won the Kilkenny GAA young reporters award for 2001 and what school are they from? 

The following school websites contain the answers to the questions:
Links to these sites can be found on the links page on the KEC website:
http://www.eckilkenny.ie/directory/

Carrigeen NS website
Castlecomer Community School Website
Newmarket NS website
Scoil Scoil Chiaran Naofa  Ath Stuin
Scoil Phadraig website
St Brigids College Website
Kilkenny School Project website
Firoda NS website
Castlecomer Coalmining Website
Kilkenny College Website
St Kieran' s College Website
Presentation Primary Kilkenny website
St John's Junior School Website
Model School Website
Clontubrid NS website
Kilkenny GAA website

If you can't find the answer to any question email kecict@eircom.net for a hint:
give the question number and we will email a link to you.
please do not email the Office for hints

Good luck and enjoy the competition!

Willie McTiernan
ICT Advisor
KEC
15th November 2001