IQ Ireland’s Quiztime

1 Ireland’s first major open-air rock concert was in Dalymount Park in 1977. Who headlined it?

2 By what other name is Knock Airport also

known as?

3 What town in Co Offaly was known as

Parsonstown until 1922?

4 Who won the Oscar for Best Original Song for

the movie Once in 2007?

5 ‘To the brave and faithful, nothing is impossible’ is the team motto of what Irish sporting club?

6 Who played Deco Cuffe, lead singer in The

Commitments?

7 Because Trinity College Dublin is a ‘deposit

library’ what is it legally entitled to?

8 In 1575 the earl of Essex, Walter Devereux slaughtered the entire population of which Island located off the coast of Northern Ireland?

9 At 2,200ft what is the highest point on Achill

Island?

10 The theme to which TV series gave Clannad a

worldwide hit?