Lucky Charms
This rare variety of little green plant is considered lucky.
What is a four-leaf clover?
These little mischevious creatures of Irish myth are common symbols of St. Patrick's Day.
What are Leprechauns?
According to legend, St. Patrick drove this animal out of Ireland.
What are snakes?
This Irish author wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
The pronunciation of Seamus.
What is SHAY-mus?
This object is multipurpose- its used in equestrianism, in a common lawn sport, and as a lucky charm.
What is a horse shoe?
What is a Banshee?
This beer brand estimates that about 13 million pints of their brew are consumed on St. Patrick's Day each year.
What is Guiness?
Irishman Bram Stoker wrote this influential horror novel despite never travelling to Transylvania.
What is Dracula?
The pronounciation of Tadge
What is TIE-guh?
In Ireland, kissing this is considered lucky- just be ready to hang upside down over the wall of a castle to do it.
What is the Blarney Stone?
This is the name of the shapeshifting Celtic goddess who represents war, fate, and death.
Who is The Morrigan?
This American city dies their river green each year for St. Pat's.
What is Chicago?
She became Ireland's first female president in 1990. She was only the second female president in the history of Europe.
Who is Mary Robinson?
The proninciation of Siobhan.
What is Shuh-VON?
Some brides put this in their shoe to bring good luck.
What is a coin? (traditionally a sixpence or penny)
The eerie Irish "Dullahan" is known in English by this name.
What is the Headless Horseman?
The Feast of St. Patrick, celebrated by Irish Catholics on March 17th, falls in the middle of this other Catholic observance every year.
What is Lent?
This female pirate, originally from Cork, was a scourge of the seven seas in the early 1700s.
Who is Anne Bonney?
The pronounciation of Saoirse?
What is SEER-sha?
Considered good luck in Japan, Maneki Neko statues depict this animal waving a paw.
What is a cat?
Celtic folklore describes selkies as beautiful women who can transform into this aquatic mammal.
What are seals?
This city was host to the first official St. Patrick's Day parade in 1601.
What is St. Augustine?
This Irish scientist is sometimes known as the "Father of Modern Chemistry" for his word describing the relationship between volume and pressure of a confined gas.
Who is Robert Boyle?
The pronounciation of Caoimhe.