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100

The cereal you might eat on St. Patrick's Day.

What are Lucky Charms? 

100

This Irish sport, played with a wooden stick and a ball, is more than 3,000 years old. 

What is hurling? 

100

This US city was the first to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

What is Boston? 

100

The shamrock represents these three things.

What is the The Holy Trinity?

100

This happens if you don't wear green on St Patrick's day.

What is, you get pinched?

100

For Irish surnames that begin with O' (e.g., O'Brien, O'Donnell, O'Malley), the O' represents this.

What is descendent of, followed by the family name?

200

The three vegetables eaten with meat on St. Patrick's Day.

What are potatoes, carrots, and cabbage?

200

This popular crystal is named after the city it was first manufactured. 

What is Waterford, Ireland?

200

The reason why St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th every year.

What is it’s the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death?

200

This happens when you kiss the Blarney Stone.

What is you obtain the gift of gab?

200

The location of the most famous of all churches dedicated to St. Patrick.

What is Dublin? 

200

The name for a group of close-knit, interrelated families; a term commonly used in Ireland and Scotland.

What is a clan? 

300

The vegetable that led Irish Immigrants to the US

What is the Potato?

300

The country where St. Patrick was born.

What is Britain? 

300

The color originally associated with St. Patrick and St. Patrick’s Day.

What is blue? 

300

The colors of the Irish flag.

What are green, white and orange?

300

The city that boasts the largest St. Patrick's day parade in the world.

What is New York City?

300

Tartans (a woolen cloth woven with stripes of different colors and widths crossing at right angles) are worn by the Irish and the Scottish to represent this. 

What is to represent their family's clan. 

500

The popular meat Americans eat on St. Patrick's Day that we do not usually eat otherwise.

What is Corned Beef?

500

Before the creation of the Internet, this go-to-source for knowledge was created as a result to a debate in an Irish pub in 1955. 

What is the Guinness Book of World Records? 

500

The largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in South America is located in this city.

What is Buenos Aires, Argentina? 

500

The meaning of the phrase, Erin Go Bragh. 

What is, Ireland Forever. 

500

This city dyes their river green on the Saturday before St. Patrick's Day. 

What is Chicago?

500

For many Irish who immigrated to America in the 1840s, the only jobs they could find were in two professions, both viewed as very dangerous.

What are police officers and fire fighters?

750

In Ireland, this meat was eaten on St. Patrick's Day.

What is pork? (Corned Beef comes from Irish Americans.) 

750

People in this country, that is outside of the European continent, consume more Guinness than the Irish.

Who are Nigerians? 

750

Up until the 1970s i Ireland, these used to be closed on St. Patrick's Day?

What are pubs? 

750

This format of a poem popular among the Irish that consists of 5 lines, three long lines and two short ones. 

What is a Limerick?


750

The tradition of dunking a shamrock into the last glass of whiskey, then drunk during a toast to St. Patrick and afterwards, throwing the shamrock over the left shoulder.

What is known as, Drowning the Shamrock? 

(Recently shown on the 250th episode of the tv show, Blue Bloods.)

750

This former President, who  led the US to victory in the Spanish-American War, had a grandfather that came from Antrim, in Northern Ireland.

Who is William McKinley? 

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