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| 001 | What is the currency of Ireland? |
The Euro |
| 002 | What is the Irish word for the police? |
Gardai |
| 003 | When is Saint Patrick's day? | 17 March |
| 004 | Whose memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1930's won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 1997? | Frank McCourt's (Angelas Ashes) |
| 005 | What is a "dubh linn"(as in Dublin)? | A Black Pool |
| 006 | When was the Easter Rising and where was its symbolic centre? | 1916:the proclamation of the Irish Republic was maed from the Dublin General Post Office |
| 007 | Which Irish hotel employed Aloys Hitler, Adolf's half brother as a wine waiter? | The Shelbourne Hotel,Dublin |
| 008 | Where is the Northern Ireland Assembley held? | Stormont Castle,Belfast |
| 009 | James Joyce's Ulysses is set in Dublin over the course of a single day. Which day? | 16 June 1904 |
| 010 | When did Cromwell invade Ireland? | August 1649 |
| 011 | How is "the village of avoca" better known? | It is the real village setting for the TV show Ballykissangel |
| 012 | How was Lady Elgee (1826-96) better known? | As Lady Wilde, Ocars Mother |
| 013 | Which port city in Ireland is most famous for it's crystal factory? | Waterford |
| 014 | What is the Irish word for Welcome? | Failte |
| 015 | Which limestone outcrop was the seat of the Munster kings from the 4th to the 12th centuries? | The Rock of Cashel |
| 016 | What does the word Cork mean? | The Gaelic for Cork" Corcaigh" means marshy |
| 017 | Who was the only woman ever to be initiated into the Irish Masons? | Elizabeth Aldworthy |
| 018 | What is the origin of the word "Blarney"? | Cormac MacCarthy, the Gaelic Lord Of Blarney was so successful at inventing excuses for not compling with the demands of Queen Elizabeth I that she was dismissed his blather as "blarney" |
| 019 | Where did the Titanic pay it's last call before sinking in 1912? | Cobh Harbour, County Cork |
| 020 | Which town was captured by the Spaniards but retaken by the English in 1601? | Kinsale |
| 021 | Which town was the target of an Algerian raiding party in 1631, when a hundred locals were captured and sold for the white slave trade? | Baltimore, County Cork |
| 022 | Which Irish word,meaning "cheif" is used for the Irish Prime Minister? | The Taoiseach |
| 023 | What is Ireland's only native toad? | The Natterjack |
| 024 | Which Dublin building was founded by Queen Elizabeth I and houses the Book of Kells? | Trinity College, Dublin |
| 025 | Of which Church of Ireland cathedral was Jonathon Swift dean? | St Patrick's Cathedral |
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