IQ Ireland’s Quiztime

1 What white Portland stone building, with its straight one-mile driveway, is an impressive sight that can be seen across Belfast on a clear day?

2 What island is about one mile long lying six miles north of Malin Head? Its lighthouse is the most northerly Irish lighthouse.

3 Which Thin Lizzy guitarist was found dead at a

hotel on Spain’s Costa del Sol in 2011?

4 In 1969, who became the youngest woman ever

to be elected to British Parliament?

5 Who twice served as Taoiseach (1981-1982,

1982-1987) and played a crucial role in paving the way for peace in Northern Ireland?

6 Who played Leonardo DiCaprio’s murdered

father in the 2002 film Gangs of New York?

7 Kirwan, Martin, Morris and Skerrett were families who dominated the commercial life of what Irish city since medieval times?

8 In 1844 Daniel O’Connell was fined and

sentenced to 12 months in prison for what?

9 Mairéad Corrigan and who else won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1977 after founding the Peace Movement?

10 In what year was the DART rail service between

Howth and Bray introduced?