Irish Fun Facts
Leprechauns
Irish Food
All About Saint Patrick
Words from Ireland
100
The date St. Patrick's Day is celebrated.
What is March 17th?
100
As legend states every leprechaun has this hidden in a secret place.
What is a pot of gold?
100
A vegetable with eyes that tastes great mashed or fried.
What are potatoes?
100
St. Patrick is the patron saint of what country?
What is Ireland?
100
This is a short heavy club or walking stick from Ireland.
What is a shillelagh?
200
The National flower of Ireland
What is the shamrock?
200
If captured a leprechaun must give up this.
What is his goloden treasure?
200
A green vegetable that can be eaten boiled or used in coleslaw.
What is cabbage?
200
For six long years Patrick worked as what, taking care of his master's sheep?
What is a shepherd?
200
A kind of Irish talk that flatters you to try to get a favor.
What is blarney?
300
The dance that is done to lively Irish music.
What is the Irish Jig?
300

This color is worn to make the wearer invisible to leprechauns and protect from their tricks.

What is green?

300
A special type of meat eaten especially on St. Patrick's Day.
What is corned beef?
300
Patrick charmed these reptiles out of Ireland.
What are snakes?
300

A nickname for Ireland and also the name of a local, Oceanside golf course.

What is the Emerald Isle?

400

This is the national emblem of the Republic of Ireland.

What is the harp?

400

Leprechauns love to play these on people, causing them to drop or spill things. They often hide keys and other belongings, just to frustrate us.

What are tricks?

400

This is a fungus that is called a toadstool but if you look for this at a grocery store it is called by another name.

What is a mushroom?

400
In 50 years Patrick built over 300 of these to help spread Christianity to the Irish.
What are churches?
400
What do the Irish kiss for good luck?
What is the Blarney stone?
500
A word the Irish use that means small.
What is the word "wee"?
500
When leprechauns are caught they often trick their captors into doing this, just for a split second so that they can make their escape.
What is looking away?
500
This is an Irish food that you can eat like toast.
What is Irish soda bread?
500
Patrick often used this in his sermons to illustrate the message of the Holy Trinity.
What is the shamrock?
500
Dwarf that guards the precious treasure.
What is a gnome?
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