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Can You Get 100% In These Blackboard Jungle Questions?

It was a quiz show designed for secondary students – you’ll be grand.

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1. Fairhill is an area of which Munster city?
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Limerick
Waterford

Cork
2. Which great work by James Joyce was published in 1922?
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Finnegans Wake
Ulysses

Borstal Boy
3. Cavan and Monaghan both have borders with which Leinster county?
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Meath
Louth

Longford
4. In 1877. who led Irish nationalist MPs in a policy of obstruction in the House of Commons?
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Charles Stewart Parnell
Wolfe Tone

Daniel O'Connell
5. According to the Old Testament, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of which substance?
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Sand
Salt

Stone
6. Which husky-voiced singer dueted with Kylie Minogue on the hit Where the Wild Roses Grow?
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Jeff Buckley
Nick Cave

Tom Waits
7. On which heavenly body would you find the Ocean of Storms?
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Jupiter
Saturn

The moon
8. Which English university city lies further south: Cambridge or Oxford?
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Cambridge
Oxford
9. True or False: Tina Turner's real name is Anna Mae Bullock
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True
False
10. In which decade did the great Shergar win the Epsom Derby?
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1970s
1980s

1990s
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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You got 10%!
Back to school.
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You scored out of !
You got 20%!
Back to school.
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You scored out of !
You got 30%!
Back to school.
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You scored out of !
You got 40%!
Getting there.
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You scored out of !
You got 50%!
You've got yourself a personal stereo.
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You scored out of !
You got 60%!
You've got yourself a personal stereo.
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You scored out of !
You got 70%!
You've got yourself a personal stereo.
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You scored out of !
You got 80%!
So close. You've got yourself a personal stereo though. Be grand.
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You scored out of !
You got 90%!
So close. You've got yourself a personal stereo though. Be grand.
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You scored out of !
You got 100%!
Nailed it.
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