IQ Ireland’s Quiztime

1 What county has the largest number of lakes of in Leinster?

2 Which Belfast man wrote the classic children’s tale The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe?

3 From which fishing town in Donegal did the Flight of the Earls take place in 1607?

4 Who was the first inductee into the Hot Press Irish Music Hall of Fame?

5 Whose wife Hazel posed as Cathleen Ní Houlihan on the Irish banknotes first issued in 1928?

6 Which US First Lady became the first woman to be granted the Freedom of Galway city?

7 The earliest estate map for Ireland (1598) is that of which famous Elizabethan courtier and explorer at Mogeely, Co Cork?

8 In 1951 the shared Nobel prize for physics was presented to which professor from TCD?

9 Which 24-hour classical music station was launched by RTÉ in May 1999?

10 In what year did the first Irish UN soldiers serve in Lebanon?