IQ Ireland’s Quiztime

1 What river runs through Tuam in Co Galway? 2 Which Irish senator was born in what was then known as Leopoldville, in the

Belgian Congo?

3 In 1939 what highly experimental novel by

Flann O’Brien was published in London?

4 What was Glasnevin Cemetery’s original

name?

5 Who was the first Lord Mayor of the newly

created Greater Dublin in 1930?

6 ‘No man has the right to set a boundary to the march of a nation’ is written on what

monument on Dublin’s O’Connell Street?

7 Until 1922 the town of Birr, Co Offaly, was

known as what?

8 Gerry Conlon’s book Proved Innocent was

made into which film?

9 The ‘turbary right’ was the right to do what? 10 Where would you find the cemetery belonging to the first Jewish community in Ireland?