Art, Music, and Pop Culture
Famous Irish Americans
Women
Heritage and Culture
Discrimination and Struggles
100
What is the most popular and well-known Irish Dance
The River Dance
100
Youngest President to be elected in the United States.
John F. Kennedy
100
What were the two most common jobs for Irish women in America?
Maids and servant girls
100
What is the main religious affiliation for most Irish citizens.
Roman Catholicism
100
What was a negative stereotype of Irish men?
Drunks
200
What is the musical instrument that is the national symbol of Ireland.
The Harp.
200
Popular Comedian known for satirizing right-wing pundits on his TV Show
Stephen Colbert
200
What was another common job for Irish women in America.
Factory Workers
200
On what day does St. Patrick's Day occur every year?
March 17th
200
What phrase was commonly found in ads and areas of employment that was discriminatory to Irish immigrants?
Irish Need Not Apply
300
What university has the mascot of "The Fighting Irish?"
Notre Dame
300
Name the famous actress from the fifties known for her Academy Award Winning performance in "country girl" who eventually married the Prince of Monaco
Grace Kelly
300
What items did Irish women have to wear to in certain work environment to show that they were "inferior?"
Caps and aprons.
300
What ancient Gaelic Sport has existed for more than three millenia?
Hurling
300
What event caused many of the Irish to emigrate to America in the mid-Nineteenth Century?
The Great Potato Famine
400
This one of the paintings made by Irish artist Val Byrne. What style did he use?
Cubism
400
Famous war-time hero and president who was a first-generation American with and a Scotch-Irish background
Andrew Jackson
400
Which occupations existed where Irish women made up one-third of workforce.
Seamstresses and dressmakers
400
What is the most popular sport in Ireland?
Gaelic Football
400
What stereotypes were given to Irish children
Undisciplined and uninstructed
500
Name the Poem/Author: "Skeletal shadows haunt hillsides silent of song. 
 Sunken eyes stare sightless across famine fields. 
 Stinking potatoes permeate the odor of death. The flux of bloody fever flows from tumbled cottages 
 like the tide of ragged remnants flooding the roadside, 
abandoning ditch-dead without ritual or wake. The human freight of coffin ships sail west 
 to where the fungus forged its first black root."
James B. Johnston/"The Greening of America"
500
Name the famous TV host from the 1950s whose wildly popular show was cameod in the musical "Bye Bye Birdie"
Ed Sullivan
500
What occurred in the year 1860 which caused the deaths of 85 women of Lowell's Pemerton Mill?
It collapsed
500
Name the well known holiday where the Ancient Celts believed the border between this world and the otherworld became thin, and the dead would revisit the mortal world
Halloween
500
Many Irishmen worked dangerous jobs such as mining and working on the railroad. How did their employers often regard them?
"Disposable"
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