In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Test Your Irish I.Q.
By Janet Evans
Monday, Mar 17 2008, 06:40 AM
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
The All Things Irish Quiz
Take the quiz below and test your Irish I.Q!
1) Some areas in Ireland are known to receive this many inches of rain each year, which accounts for the brilliantly green grass that has earned Ireland the nickname the "emerald isle":
Sixty inches
Seventy inches
Eighty inches
Ninety inches
2) "Erin Go Bragh," a phrase heard often on St. Patrick's Day, means:
I Love Ireland
Ireland Forever
Brave and Free
Ireland, My Home
3) Irish tradition says that anyone who kisses the blarney stone, which is located near this town, will be blessed with the Irish "gift of gab":
Dublin
Wexford
Cork
Waterford
4) This Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and playwright was also a senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928:
George Bernard Shaw
James Joyce
Jonathan Swift
William Butler Yeats
5) This film, shot in Ireland in 1952, was directed by John Ford:
Ryan's Daughter
The Quiet Man
The Dead
The Informer
6) Traditional Irish music has found an international audience with the popularity of such Celtic bands as:
The Chieftains
The Lads
Shannon Rovers
Sweet Honey in the Rock
7) Today, the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland is:
Frank McCourt
Ian Dunkirk
Bertie Ahern
Gerry Adams
8) In November 1995, the people of Ireland narrowly passed a referendum legalizing:
Same-sex marriages
Abortion
Divorce
Marijuana
9) With 27,136 square miles of land, the Republic of Ireland is approximately half the size of this U.S. state:
Montana
California
Louisiana
Arkansas
10) Today, this number of Americans trace their ancestry back to Ireland:
Ten million
Twenty-five million
Forty million
Sixty-five million
~Check Your Answers~
1) Some areas in Ireland are known to receive this many inches of rain each year, which accounts for the brilliantly green grass that has earned Ireland the nickname the "emerald isle":
Ninety inches
2) "Erin Go Bragh," a phrase heard often on St. Patrick's Day, means:
Ireland Forever
3) Irish tradition says that anyone who kisses the blarney stone, which is located near this town, will be blessed with the Irish "gift of gab":
Cork
4) This Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and playwright was also a senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928:
William Butler Yeats
5) This film, shot in Ireland in 1952, was directed by John Ford:
The Quiet Man
6) Traditional Irish music has found an international audience with the popularity of such Celtic bands as:
The Chieftains
7) Today, the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland is:
Bertie Ahern
8) In November 1995, the people of Ireland narrowly passed a referendum legalizing:
Divorce
9) With 27,136 square miles of land, the Republic of Ireland is approximately half the size of this U.S. state:
Arkansas
10) Today, this number of Americans trace their ancestry back to Ireland: Forty million
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