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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. What is the capital city of Ireland?

GalwayLimerickCorkDublin

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

A tall flowering treeA type of grassA small plant with three leavesA climbing vine

3. Ireland is often given which nickname, because of its green countryside?

The Isle of MistThe Emerald IsleThe Golden IsleThe Green Kingdom

4. Famous limestone cliffs on the west coast, in County Clare, are known as what?

The Skellig CliffsThe Cliffs of MoherThe White CliffsThe Giant's Causeway

5. What does the Irish word "Slán" mean?

HelloSorryGoodbyeYes

6. Who is Ireland's head of state, elected directly by the public but with mostly ceremonial powers?

The Chief JusticeThe TaoiseachThe Governor GeneralThe President

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

SlavicCelticRomanceGermanic

8. Which Irish writer wrote the novel "Dracula"?

James JoyceJonathan SwiftBram StokerOscar Wilde

9. A striking formation of thousands of hexagonal rock columns on the coast of County Antrim is called what?

The BurrenThe Cliffs of MoherThe Giant's CausewaySlieve League

10. Besides the deaths it caused, what else did the Great Famine bring about on a huge scale?

A new system of countiesThe founding of new universitiesMass emigration, especially to the United StatesA sudden population boom

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