# 🇮🇪 Ireland Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What is the capital city of Ireland?  
**Answer:** Dublin  
**Taglines:**  
- Guinness and grievances  
- Where pubs outnumber sense  
- Birthplace of Joyce and hangovers  
- Dublin: doubling your chances of a bad decision  
- Ireland’s loud, literary heart  

### 2. What color is traditionally associated with Ireland?  
**Answer:** Green  
**Taglines:**  
- Jealousy’s national hue  
- Emerald everything  
- It’s not easy being green—unless you’re Irish  
- The grass is always greener because it rains constantly  
- Color of pride, pubs, and St. Pat’s regret  

### 3. What is the name of Ireland’s most famous beer?  
**Answer:** Guinness  
**Taglines:**  
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner  
- Thick enough to eat with a fork  
- Pour slow, regret slower  
- One sip away from poetry  
- Stout and shout  

### 4. What holiday celebrates Ireland’s patron saint?  
**Answer:** St. Patrick’s Day  
**Taglines:**  
- Global excuse for public intoxication  
- Green beer, questionable decisions  
- Saint who drove out snakes, welcomed tourists  
- Faith and fermentation  
- You’re wearing green, but you’re feeling blue  

### 5. What island nation shares the island of Ireland?  
**Answer:** Northern Ireland  
**Taglines:**  
- Awkward roommates since 1921  
- Borderline drama  
- Political plot twist island edition  
- One island, two attitudes  
- Ireland’s upstairs neighbor with baggage  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Ireland is often referred to as the “Emerald ______.”  
**Answer:** Isle  
**Taglines:**  
- Not a gemstone, just a soggy rock  
- Shiny name, rainy reality  
- Where green goes to party  
- Emerald by color, sarcasm by nature  
- Isle of mist and missed flights  

### 2. The native Irish language is known as ______.  
**Answer:** Gaelic  
**Taglines:**  
- Pronounced nothing like it looks  
- Consonants on vacation  
- Gaeilge, but don’t try to spell it  
- Linguistic roller coaster  
- The language of legends and scolding  

### 3. The harp is the national ______ of Ireland.  
**Answer:** Symbol  
**Taglines:**  
- Pluck it with pride  
- Guinness’s logo, government’s emblem  
- Harping on history  
- Strings attached to identity  
- When national symbols make music  

### 4. The Irish flag has green, white, and ______ stripes.  
**Answer:** Orange  
**Taglines:**  
- Green for Catholics, orange for Protestants, white for “please stop”  
- The flag of compromise and cold shoulders  
- Tricolor drama  
- Peace, if only they meant it  
- Orange you glad we brought this up?  

### 5. The famous Irish cliffs featured in *The Princess Bride* are called the Cliffs of ______.  
**Answer:** Moher  
**Taglines:**  
- Inconceivably beautiful  
- Where fairytales fall off  
- Nature’s middle finger  
- Cliffs of cinematic glory  
- Say it right: sounds like “more,” not “mower”  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What kind of mythical creature is most associated with Irish folklore?  
A) Troll  
B) Leprechaun ✅  
C) Centaur  
D) Minotaur  
**Taglines:**  
- Tiny, gold-obsessed tricksters  
- Irish goblin economics  
- Shiny shoes, shady morals  
- Rainbow-chasing red flag  
- Don’t trust the hat  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What is the Irish parliament called?  
A) Commons  
B) Oireachtas ✅  
C) Seanad  
D) Dáil  
**Taglines:**  
- Oireachtas: spelled with chaos  
- Legislative Gaelic for “we tried”  
- Democracy, now with consonants  
- Hard to say, harder to reform  
- Government that scrambles your Scrabble  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What river flows through Dublin?  
A) Thames  
B) Shannon  
C) Liffey ✅  
D) Clyde  
**Taglines:**  
- Liffey: sounds cute, smells like city  
- Flows past regrets  
- Guinness’s liquid neighbor  
- Dirty, historic, kind of poetic  
- That’s not a river—it’s a mood  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What Irish mythological warrior was raised by a giant and fought with a Gáe Bolg?  
A) Lugh  
B) Fionn mac Cumhaill  
C) Cú Chulainn ✅  
D) Diarmuid  
**Taglines:**  
- Mythical badass with a barbed spear  
- “Cú” means dog, but he bites like a beast  
- Raised by giants, killed like a poet  
- Ireland’s angry answer to Hercules  
- Spell it, I dare you  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Which of the following is a traditional Irish sport?  
A) Lacrosse  
B) Curling  
C) Hurling ✅  
D) Boules  
**Taglines:**  
- Fast, fierce, and not a vomiting reference  
- Like hockey, but Irish-er  
- Wood, leather, and pain  
- Played by gods and lads named Sean  
- Sport or war? Depends who’s losing
