Geography
Potpourri
Culture
St. Patrick
100

T/F Ireland is an island off the coast of Great Britain.

True

100

T/F Irish people do not like stories.

False
100

T/F St. Patrick's University is Ireland's oldest university.

False. It's Trinity College.

100

T/F St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.

True

200

This is the capital city of Ireland.

What is Dublin?

200

According to archaeologists, people started arriving on the island in:

a. 10.000 B.C.

b. 6.500 B.C.

c. 1920 A.D.

B

200

This is the nickname of Ireland.

What is the Emerald Isle?

200

On St. Patrick's Day, people traditionally wear this color.

What is green?

300

Name one river in Ireland.

What is Shannon/ Liffey/ Boyne/ Moy/ Barrow?

300

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300

Name an Irish instrument.

fiddle, bodhrán, or penny whistle

300

According to legend, St. Patrick expelled all of these from the island.

What are snakes?

400

These cliffs off the coast of Ireland are 120 meters tall and provide dramatic views of the coastline and sea.

What are the cliffs of Moher?

400

This prehistoric monument, built around 3100 BC, is older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.

What is Newgrange?

400

Draw the Irish flag.

L-R [green vertical stripe, white vertical stripe, orange vertical stripe]

400

This date in March is called St. Patrick's day.

What is March 17th?

500

This is the name of the small chunk of the island that is a part of the United Kingdom.

What is Northern Ireland?

500

The head of the Irish government is called this.

What is Taoiseach?
(tee-shack)

500

These are the two official languages of Ireland

What are Gaelic and English?

500

Saint Patrick was originally from this place, before he was kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Britain (he was a Romano-Britain citizen)

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