Sport in Ireland
Myths and Legends
Facts and History
Music and Culture
Food and Drink
100

Name three sports which can be practiced in Ireland

Golf, rugby, football, Gaelic football, hurling, handball, kite-surfing, windsurfing, horse racing, tennis, hiking and cycling.

100

According to legend, what must a leprechaun give you?

His/her treasure

100

What are the colours of the Irish flag?

Green, white and orange.

100

Which famous Irish band formed in the 1970s

A: The Cranberries

B: U2

C: Kodaline

U2

100

In what year did they begin to make Guinness in Dublin?

1759

200

How old is hurling thought to be?

A: over 300 years old

B: over 3,000 years old

C: over 30 years old

Over 3000 Years old

200

According to legend, if you kiss the Blarney stone what will you get?

The 'gift of the gab'.

200

When was the Irish War of Independence?

1919 - 1921

200

Which Irish writer wrote Dracula?

A: Samuel Beckett

B: James Joyce

C: Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

200

What type of bread is ‘soda bread’?

A sweet brown bread
300

Rory McIlroy is a famous player of which sport?

Golf

300

Where can Niamh sometimes be seen looking for her husband Oisín?

In the mist/sea.

300

How many bridges cross the River Liffey?

27

300

Which performance of traditional Irish dancing debuted during the 1994 Eurovision song contest?

Riverdance

300

How much are Irish food and drink exports worth per year?

€12.6 billion

400

How many times have Ireland won the Six Nations Championship?

24
400

What was special about the land that Oisín travelled to?

You could never grow old/ it was the land of the young.

400

When did the Irish people vote in favour of marriage equality?

2015

400

How many times have Irish writers won the Nobel Prize for literature?

4 (William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, Seamus Heaney)

400

What development did Joseph ‘Spud’ Murphy bring to the potato crisp in 1954?

He introduced the first flavoured potato crisp.