Games and Puzzles

Test Your Irish Knowledge

1) Some areas in Ireland are known to receive this many inches of rain each year, which accounts for the brilliantly green grass that has earned Ireland the nickname the "emerald isle":

Sixty inches, Seventy inches, Eighty inches or Ninety inches

2) "Erin Go Bragh," a phrase heard often on St. Patrick's Day, means:

I Love Ireland, Ireland Forever, Brave and Free or Ireland Go Green

3) Irish tradition says that anyone who kisses the blarney stone, which is located near this town, will be blessed with the Irish "gift of gab":

Dublin, Wexford, Cork, or Waterford

4) This Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and playwright was also a senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928:

George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, or William Butler Yeats

5) With 27,136 square miles of land, the Republic of Ireland is approximately half the size of this U.S. state:

Montana, Ohio, Louisiana or Arkansas

6) Today, this number of Americans trace their ancestry back to Ireland:

Ten million, Twenty-five million, Forty million or Sixty-five million

Answers

1) 90”
2) Ireland Forever
3) Cork
4) Yeats
5) Arkansas
6) 40 million