100 free St. Patrick's Day Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
St. Patrick's Day trivia for kids should be green, silly and just a little bit surprising: why we wear green, what a shamrock has to do with anything, whether Saint Patrick really chased out the snakes, and how a river in Chicago ends up bright green every March. These 100 questions start with the easy stuff and work up to the real history behind the holiday. The set covers Saint Patrick's actual life story, shamrocks and four-leaf clovers, leprechauns and pots of gold, parades and the Chicago River, Irish words and traditions, and a few fun records like landmarks going green around the world. Every answer is checked against a cited source and each explanation adds one more fact. Use it for a classroom party, a family dinner or a car ride to the parade. Play a round now and see how many you can get right.
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Q 01On which date is St. Patrick's Day celebrated?
March 17
Tradition says it is the day Saint Patrick died, some time in the 400s.
Q 02Which two other saints share the title of patron saint of Ireland with Patrick?
Brigid and Columba
Patrick is still the number one, known as the Apostle of Ireland.
Q 03Where was Saint Patrick actually born?
Britain
He was born there near the end of Roman rule and only came to Ireland after being kidnapped.
Q 04How did the teenage Patrick first end up in Ireland?
He was captured by Irish pirates
He was sixteen and spent six years as a slave before escaping.
Q 05How many years was Patrick held as a slave in Ireland before he escaped?
Six
He worked as a herdsman and later wrote that he prayed up to a hundred times a day.
Q 06Irish farmers planted potatoes after St. Patrick's Day expecting what to improve?
The weather
The holiday sits right at the turn from winter to spring in Ireland.
Q 07According to legend, what did Saint Patrick use the shamrock to explain?
The Holy Trinity
The number three was already special in old Irish belief, which may have helped his teaching catch on.
Q 08Which creatures did Saint Patrick supposedly chase out of Ireland?
Snakes
The catch is that Ireland never had any snakes to begin with, so it is only a legend.
Q 09Why is the snake story about Saint Patrick definitely a legend?
Ireland never had any snakes after the Ice Age
A Roman writer noted as early as the third century that the island had none.
Q 10What colour do people wear on St. Patrick's Day?
Green
An old legend even threatens that people not wearing it will get pinched.
Q 11What tiny mischievous creature from Irish folklore is often shown as a shoemaker guarding a pot of gold?
A leprechaun
One old story says he wears them out from running about so much and is always seen mending his own shoes.
Q 12In Irish folklore, where is the little shoemaker's pot of gold supposed to be hidden?
At the end of the rainbow
Good luck finding it: the end of a rainbow moves every time you do.
Q 13Which US city dyes its river bright green every year for St. Patrick's Day?
Chicago
The tradition started by accident in 1961 when plumbers used green dye to trace pollution.
Q 21The weeks leading up to St. Patrick's Day in Ireland are Seachtain na Gaeilge. What is that?
Irish Language Week
People make an extra effort to speak Irish, and it runs from 1 March to 17 March.
Q 22Where is Saint Patrick said to be buried?
Downpatrick
The town in County Down holds one of the biggest celebrations outside the cities.
Q 23What is Ireland's national symbol, seen on its coins and coat of arms?
A harp
It also appears on the coats of arms of Canada and the United Kingdom.
Botanically speaking, what makes a four-leaf clover special?
Q 14How did the tradition of dyeing that city's river for the holiday begin?
Plumbers were tracing pollution with a dye
The plumbers liked the look and pitched it to the city's Irish-American mayor as a yearly event.
Q 15St. Patrick's Day parades began on which continent, long before Ireland held any?
North America
Ireland did not hold its first parade until 1903.
Q 16Which Irish city held the very first St. Patrick's Day parade in Ireland, in 1903?
Waterford
Dublin's first official state-sponsored parade did not come until 1931.
Q 17St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other what?
National festival
It is a public holiday in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Newfoundland too.
Q 18Which Caribbean island counts St. Patrick's Day as a public holiday?
Montserrat
Many of its early settlers were Irish, and its flag even shows a woman holding a harp.
Q 19Which famous landmarks were the first to be lit up green for St. Patrick's Day in 2010?
The Sydney Opera House and Auckland's Sky Tower
Since then more than 300 landmarks in fifty countries have joined the Global Greening.
Q 20What is Saint Patrick's Day called in the Irish language?
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
It means the Day of the Festival of Patrick.
It is a rare mutation of the ordinary three-leaved plant
About one in every 5,000 clovers has four leaves, according to a huge European survey.
Q 25Roughly how many ordinary clovers would you have to search to find one four-leaf clover?
5,000
That is still twice as common as the old saying of one in 10,000.
Q 26What is a person supposed to gain by kissing the Blarney Stone in Ireland?
The gift of the gab
Kissers used to be dangled by the ankles over the castle wall to reach it.
Q 27The 'drowning the shamrock' custom ends St. Patrick's Day by putting a shamrock where?
In the bottom of a cup
The cup is filled up, the shamrock is either swallowed or tossed over the shoulder for luck.
Q 28The colour green was first linked to Ireland in a legend written down roughly how long ago?
Some 1,000 years ago
The story appears in the 11th-century Book of the Taking of Ireland.
Q 29The Irish stepdancing show that became a worldwide hit in 1994 was called what?
Riverdance
It started out as a seven-minute act between the songs at that year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Q 30Which Canadian province gives its government workers the day off for St. Patrick's Day?
Newfoundland and Labrador
About one in five people there has Irish roots, and it is called the most Irish place outside Ireland.