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Benbulben The Twelve Bens Carrantuohill Sliabh Mish
2. What is the name of the Seaside Resort in County Donegal that bears the Irish name that means "The wood of the Apple"?
Rossnowlegh Carndonagh Rossmacintosh Letterkenny
3. Which two of the following colleges owe much to the efforts of devoted Irishmen who helped establish them?
Georgetown and Harvard Fordham and Notre Dame Smith and Barnard Columbia and William and Mary
4. The west of the USA was largely developed because of a mechanical reaper invented by an Irishman. What was his name?
John Deere Cyrus McCormick Seamus Corcoran Henry Ford
5. The Statutes of Kilkenny forbade Normans to?
Fish the waters off the coast of Ireland Wear French silk hosiery in public Celebrate the Holy Mass in French Marry the Irish
6. Who was the High King of Ireland from 975-1014AD?
Art MacMorrough Hugh O'Neill Brian Boru Hugh O'Donnell
7. If you were to have strolled the streets of New York around 1900, you would have found many Irish working as what?
Streetsweepers Tinkers Policeman Fishmongers
8. What is the most common surname in Ireland?
Murphy McCarthy O'Neil O'Brien
9. Who printed the final version of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic that was read on the steps of the GPO on Easter Monday 1916?
Thomas Clarke Eoin MacNeill William Smith O'Brien James Connolly
10. In response to the question, "Is there any chance the Easter Rebellion would succeed", who responded, "None whatever"?
James Connolly Thomas Clarke Michael Collins Padraig Pearse