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

The Isle of MistThe Green KingdomThe Emerald IsleThe Golden Isle

2. What are the colours of the Irish tricolour flag, from the flagpole outward?

Green, white and orangeGreen, white and goldOrange, white and greenGreen, gold and white

3. What crop failure caused the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland?

The barley crop failed due to frostThe wheat crop failed due to droughtThe potato crop failed due to blightThe oat crop failed due to flooding

4. What kind of government does the Republic of Ireland have?

A military governmentAn absolute monarchyA parliamentary republicA one-party state

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

The Chief JusticeThe TaoiseachThe PresidentThe Governor General

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

A sudden population boomMass emigration, especially to the United StatesThe founding of new universitiesA new system of counties

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

LimerickDublinCorkBelfast

8. What alphabet is written Irish set out in?

The Cyrillic alphabetThe Greek alphabetA separate Gaelic alphabet with different lettersThe Latin alphabet, the same as English

9. The Plantation of Ulster, in the early 1600s, involved the English government doing what?

Introducing the potato to IrelandSigning a peace treaty with FranceBuilding a new capital citySettling English and Scottish colonists on land in Ulster

10. How long is a single term for Ireland's President?

Ten yearsTwo yearsSeven yearsFour years

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