Politics
1. Ahern - Bertie, Dermot, Noel and Micheal. 2. Mildred Fox (Wicklow), Jackie Healy Rea (Kerry South) and Harry Blaney Donegal North East). 3. Dana Rosemary Scallon and Derek Nally; Carlow, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Kerry, Longford, South Dublin, North Tipperary, Wexford and Wicklow. 4. Mary McAleese, Mary Banotti, Dana, Adi Roche, Derek Nally. 5. Brendan Howlin. 6. Celia Larkin. 7. Seamus Pattison. 8. Michael Noonan. 9. The Green Party. 10. Sadako Ogata (Mary Robinson is human rights).
Foreign News
1. Tony Blair and New Labour's electoral landslide inflicted the largest defeat this century on the Tories. 2. Hungary. 3. Nelson Mandela (as president of the African National Congress). 4. Turkey. 5. An earthquake which helped collapse the ceiling of the St Francis Basilica, destroying part of Giotto's fresco in the process. 6. Hong Kong. 7. The Campaign Against Landmines; in recognition of the work of Princess Diana. 8. Rio de Janeiro. 9. Zaire (now renamed Congo); Laurent Kabila. 10. They believed that a spaceship was travelling in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet and that by dying, they would whiz off aboard it to a better life somewhere else in the cosmos.
The Arts
1. Bantry. 2. Hugh Tinney. 3. Alexander Anissimov. 4. Arundhati Roy. 5. Seamus Deane. 6. Meryl Streep. 7. Roy Lichtenstein. 8. Silviu Purcarete. 9. Herodotus. 10. Minister for Arts, Culture, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
Pop
1. Roni Size. 2. REM 3. Bernie Taupin. 4. Simon Fuller. 5. Radiohead. 6. David Trimble, Gerry Adams, John Hume, Ian Paisley. 7. Noel Gallagher. 8. Sinead O'Connor. 9. Pulp. 10. The Prodigy.
Business
1. b 2. c 3. Trick question! all are State company subsidiaries. 4. b 5. a 6. b 7. b 8. c 9. c 10. a
Sport
1. Zinzan Brooke 2. Roy Keane. 3. Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Justin Leonard and Davis Love. 4. Maldives 5. Four 6. John Oxx and Kevin Prendergast 7. Mugen Honda 8. Nine 9. Clare 0-20; Tipperary 2-13. 10. Keith Wood, Eric Miller, Paul Wallace and Jeremy Davidson.
Television
1. 15. 2. Roseanne. 3. The Bee Gees. 4. Marty Whelan. 5. Tony Marchant. 6. Pat Butler. 7. New Hall College. 8. Jimmy McGovern. 9. Susan Wooldridge. 10. Andy Gray.