Q 01/05
A) Belfast
B) Armagh
C) Derry
D) Lisburn
Answer · why
Belfast stands on the River Lagan and is the second-largest city on the island of Ireland, after Dublin.
Q 02/05
A) Three
B) Six
C) Twelve
D) Twenty-six
Answer · why
Six counties form Northern Ireland; the other three counties of the old province of Ulster went to the south at partition.
Q 03/05
A) Anglo-Irish Treaty
B) Government of Ireland Act
C) Ireland Act
D) Sunningdale Agreement
Answer · why
The Government of Ireland Act, passed in 1920, set up one parliament for Northern Ireland and another for Southern Ireland.
Q 04/05
A) 600,000
B) 1.9 million
C) 6 million
D) 19 million
Answer · why
1.9 million people were counted on census day, 21 March 2021, up from about 1.8 million in 2011.
Q 05/05
A) 400
B) 4,000
C) 40,000
D) 400,000
Answer · why
About 40,000 columns, most of them hexagonal, formed when lava cooled and cracked some 50 to 60 million years ago.
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