{"id":633753,"date":"2026-09-23T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633753\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:02:22","slug":"quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-sharon-horgan-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633753\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: How much do you know about Sharon Horgan? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHARON HORGAN IS behind many of TV\u2019s best series, Catastrophe, Motherland and Bad Sisters among them.<\/p>\n

Her latest is Youth, which is on HBO Max now. It\u2019s about a 50-something divorc\u00e9e called Alex who is wondering when life stopped being fun. She\u2019s trying to progress in her career, negotiate her relationship with her ex, parent a university-age son (played by Aran Murphy, son of Cillian Murphy), and potentially start a new relationship with a younger man, Pat (played by Rupert Friend).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The show is hilarious, sweet, moving and very insightful \u2013 you can read our Best of the Box review of it here.<\/a> But how much do you know about Sharon Horgan? Put your knowledge to the test in this week\u2019s Best of the Box quiz.<\/p>\n

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\n Where was Sharon born?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Her parents moved the family to Bellewstown, Co Meath so that they could run what…?\n <\/p>\n

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\n What sport did her brother Shane Horgan play?\n <\/p>\n

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\n What year did her breakthrough series Pulling (which she co-wrote) air?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Who plays her co-star Rob Delaney’s mother in the series Catastrophe?\n <\/p>\n

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\n How did she meet Rob Delaney, who played her partner in Catastrophe?\n <\/p>\n

\n At a children’s playground in London\n <\/p>\n

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\n What’s the name of the independent production company she founded with Clelia Mountford?\n <\/p>\n

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\n What was the first name of the character Sharon voiced in Bob’s Burgers?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Which series did she win a prestigious Peabody award for?\n <\/p>\n

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\n On which Irish TV show did she make her debut as a back-up dancer in 1988?\n <\/p>\n

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\n How many awards has she won in total for her work?\n <\/p>\n

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\n What’s the family name of the sisters in Bad Sisters?\n <\/p>\n

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Answer all the questions to see your result!<\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Top fan\n <\/p>\n

\n Is there anything you don’t know about Sharon Horgan?\n <\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Second place\n <\/p>\n

\n You know a lot about Sharon Horgan – but not everything.\n <\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Third place\n <\/p>\n

\n Back to Wikipedia for you!\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHARON HORGAN IS behind many of TV\u2019s best series, Catastrophe, Motherland and Bad Sisters among them. Her latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[163478,321,93,61,60,199345],"class_list":["post-633753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-best-of-the-box","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-show-quizness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}