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1. Which of the following writers has NOT won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

	Samuel Beckett
	James Joyce
	Seamus Heaney
	William Butler Yeats

2. Who has been described as the "Irish Joan of Arc?"

	Sinead O'Connor
	Elizabeth Bowen
	Maud Gonne
	Lady Gregory

3. Which of the following quotes was NOT from Brendan Behan?

	"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
	"I am a drinker with writing problems."
	"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
	"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."

4. Which President of Ireland was born in New York City?

	Eamon DeValera
	Douglas Hyde
	Mary Robinson
	Sean T. O'Kelly

5. Which play was NOT the cause of a riot in Dublin?

	Voltaire's Mahomet
	Synge's Playboy of the Western World
	O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars
	Wilde's Salome

6. What is Ireland's most common surname?

	O'Connor
	McManus
	Murphy
	Kelly

7. Why wasn't Ulysses banned in Ireland?

	The Irish government hoped to convince Joyce to return from exile.
	The censors didn't read far enough into the book to get to the explicit parts.
	The book wasn't published in Ireland until 1981.
	No one complained to censors about the book.

8. Which fact is true of the Irish?

	They buy more books of poetry per capita than any other English-speaking people.
	They grow more potatoes per capita than any other country in the world.
	They have the largest population of sheep in the world.
	They own the fewest dogs per capita than any other country in Europe.

9. Which of the following is NOT a correct translation of a name into Gaelic?

	James = Seamus
	Jane = Sinead
	Julia = Sadhbh
	Francis = Proinsias

10. Which of these countries is smaller than the Republic of Ireland?

	Panama
	Austria
	Cuba
	Denmark

11. Which scandal actually happened in Ireland?

	A fugitive wanted for two murders was discovered to be staying at the home of the country's attorney general.
	The Bishop of Galway resigned when it was discovered he had a teenaged son whom he supported with church funds.
	A tribunal concluded that a former Prime Minister of Ireland had "misappropriated" funds raised for a colleague's liver transplant, sold passports to an Arab sheikh, and accumulated a fortune in clandestine payments from wealthy businessmen.
	All of them.

12. On which days must Irish pubs close by law?

	Good Friday through Easter Sunday
	Good Friday and Christmas Day
	New Year's Day and Easter Sunday
	Election Day and Christmas

13. Which Irish actor has said, "I couldn't care less who sees my bits?"

	Colin Farrell
	Liam Neeson
	Peter O'Toole
	Barry Fitzgerald

14. Which famous horror author was born in Dublin?

	Mary Shelley
	Robert Louis Stevenson
	Bram Stoker
	Stephen King

15. Who claimed at various times that his birth name was either Sean Aloysius O'Fearna or John Martin Feeney?

	John Ford
	Bono
	Sean O'Casey
	Brian Friel

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