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🇮🇪 Ireland, Primary and Secondary

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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. The shamrock, a well known symbol of Ireland, is what kind of plant?

A tall flowering treeA climbing vineA small plant with three leavesA type of grass

2. Who is traditionally credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century?

Saint ColumbaSaint PatrickSaint BrigidSaint Kevin

3. Ireland is traditionally divided into four provinces. Which of these is one of them?

DublinLeinsterKerryCork

4. The Irish word "Sláinte", often said when raising a glass, roughly means what?

GoodnightGood health, or cheersGood morningWell done

5. The Irish language, also called Gaeilge, belongs to which family of languages?

SlavicRomanceGermanicCeltic

6. Vikings founded a trading settlement that grew into which Irish city, around the year 841?

DublinCorkBelfastLimerick

7. Which Irish writer wrote "Gulliver's Travels"?

W. B. YeatsJonathan SwiftGeorge Bernard ShawBram Stoker

8. The Easter Rising, a rebellion against British rule in Ireland, took place in which year?

1798194919161921

9. Anglo-Norman lords from England and Wales first invaded Ireland in which year?

1066116912151400

10. Ireland formally declared itself a republic, ending its last constitutional ties with the British Commonwealth, in which year?

1973194919161921

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