Q 01/05

What is the longest river in Ireland?

A) River Liffey

B) River Shannon

C) River Boyne

D) River Corrib

Answer · why

B) River Shannon

The River Shannon, about 360 km long, all but cuts the west off from the rest of Ireland, so Cromwell's 1650s land settlement used it as the line and ...

Q 02/05

Which country joined the European Economic Community in 1973 alongside Ireland and the United Kingdom?

A) Denmark

B) Spain

C) Greece

D) Portugal

Answer · why

A) Denmark

Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom all joined on 1 January 1973; Norway had been due to join with them, but its voters rejected membership in a r...

Q 03/05

What is the traditional Irish potato pancake, associated with the northern midlands and Ulster, called?

A) Colcannon

B) Coddle

C) Farl

D) Boxty

Answer · why

D) Boxty

Boxty mixes grated raw potato with mashed potato, and one old rhyme warns that anyone who can't make boxty will never get a man.

Q 04/05

Which Dublin-born theatre manager wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula?

A) Bram Stoker

B) Oscar Wilde

C) W.B. Yeats

D) James Joyce

Answer · why

A) Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker ran London's Lyceum Theatre for the actor Henry Irving; he took the name Dracula from an 1820 history of Wallachia and Moldavia written by...

Q 05/05

What is the Irish language called in Irish?

A) Gàidhlig

B) Gaeilge

C) Cymraeg

D) Brezhoneg

Answer · why

B) Gaeilge

Gaeilge is the Republic's first official language, yet at the 2022 census only about 72,000 people spoke it every day outside the education system.