IQ Ireland’s Quiztime

1 In Ireland, what are classified as either Court,

Passage, Portal or Wedge?

2 In 1366, the Irish (Anglo-Norman) Parliament passed what law forbidding intermarriage and other connections between English and Irish?

3 In what year did the Dáil approve the

Constitution of the Irish Free State?

4 Which ‘Dubliner’ left school aged 13 to work as a messenger boy then a docker, builder, drain digger and a furniture remover before becoming a founding member of the folk group?

5 Often mistaken for a mouse, what is Ireland’s

smallest mammal?

6 In 1976, which Irish Republican and Sinn Féin vice-president was assassinated in her hospital bed by Unionist gunmen?

7 Which Irish actor played the villainous Aidan Maguire in the BBC soap EastEnders in 2017–2018?

8 In 997, Sitric Silkbeard, King of Dublin,

introduced the first what in Irish history?

9 What was the popular name of Oliver

Cromwell’s army?

10 What is the world’s oldest operational

lighthouse?