St. Patrick's Day Trivia
By: Tippy & Alfred
(Answers at the bottom of the page)
1. Saint Patrick was Irish
True or False?
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2. Irish farmers would do this in spring to each member of their family:
a. Give a toast with beer to each member.
b. Pull shamrock leaves off a shamrock.
c. Hang a cross over their beds.
d. Make a cross on their arms with ash from a burnt stick.
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3. St. Patrick changed the national color of Ireland to green.
True or False?
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4. What is Ireland's nickname?
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5. St. Patrick loved listening to old Irish tales and insisted
that they be told in poetic verse from then on.
True or False?
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6. W.B. Yeats is an Irish Poet who loved to write about what?
a. Trolls
b. Fairies and Ghosts
c. Mermaids
d. Leprechauns
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7. What Irish dance became popular during the early 20th century?
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8. A Leprechaun is really an Irish...
a. Shoemaker
b. Midget
c. Thief
d. Magician
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9. According to Irish legends, where do the fairies who kidnap
brides and babies take them?
(a) In the forests
(b) In fairy mounds
(c) In caves in the mountains
(d) Under bridges
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10. A popular Irish dish that is made from shredded cabbage,
minced onions, mashed potatoes and melted butter is known as:
(a) Mulligatawny
(b) Shepherds' Pie
(c) Colcannon
(d) Fairy Porridge
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11. Ireland was the first country in Europe to grow potatoes on
a large scale.
True or False?
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12. Irish Soldiers (For the British Army) during the Revolutionary
War played the Fife and Drum.
What's a fife?
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13. Michael Flatley popularized what type of Irish dance step?
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14. Kissing the Blarney Stone is supposed to give you what?
(a) Moist Lips from the dew on the rock
(b) Good Luck in Love
(c) Removes shyness
(d) Heals you of warts
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15. The color of Green for Ireland stands for:
(a) Nature
(b) Hope
(c) Life
(d) Jealousy
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Answers:
1. No, he was born in Scotland from an Italian Father and a
Scottish Mother.
2. They make a cross on their arms with ash from a burnt stick.
3. False. The popular color back when St. Patrick was alive was
blue. Green didn't become popular until the 19th century.
4. The Emerald Isle is the most popular nickname. Other
nicknames are The Old Sod, The Bower, and the Four Green Fields.
5. True, a popular poet during that time was Caolite. St. Patrick
was reputed to love his poetry. He declared: "..let Irish tales
be told "Where ever third word has melody".
6. Fairies and Ghosts.
7. Irish Jig.
8. He's a little shoemaker with a reputation for being rich but mean.
9. b: They are said to put them in Fairy Mounds for up to 100 years.
Farmers today will not disturb some small lumpy hills on their
land because they feel spirits are in them.
10. c: It is Colcannon
11. True
12. A fife is a flute that's a little higher in pitch or tone than normal
flutes.
13. Step Dancing
14. c: It removes shyness and you are suddenly given the "gift of gab."
15. a or b are the correct answers. Some say it
means Nature others say it means Hope.
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