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Can you score 10 out of 10 on these Junior Cert questions?

It won’t be as easy as you expect.

Apr 21st 2017, 9:00 PM 24,934 Views 4 Comments

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1. CSPE: How many Dáil constituencies are there at present?

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40

51

33

21

2. Geography: What type of rock is basalt?

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Sedimentary

Igneous

Metamorphic

A pebble

3. History: The 'Phoney War' was an eight month period at the beginning of which war?

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World War I

The Spanish Civil War

The Cold War

World War II

4. Home Economics: A serious deficiency in Thiamine (Vitamin B1) will leave you with which disease?

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Scurvy

Beriberi

Rickets

Pellegra

5. English: What was the name of the Friar in Romeo and Juliet?

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Benvolio

Patrick

Lawrence

Balthasar

Tybalt

Antonio

6. Business Studies: What does GNP stand for?

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Generates Natural Profit

Growing National Profit

Gross National Product

Guaranteed Not Productive

7. Art: Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat by Claude Monet (pictured) is an example of which style of painting?

Wikipedia

Impressionism

Wikipedia

Fauvism

Wikipedia

Photorealism

Wikipedia

Pointillism

8. Science: What is potassium known as on the periodic table of elements?

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Na

Pt

K

Br

9. Woodwork: Is steel ferrous or non-ferrous

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Ferrous

Non-ferrous

10. Religion: The word Brahmin is associated with which world religion?

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Christianity

Islam

Hinduism

Judaism

Answer all the questions to see your result!

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You scored out of !

Expert

Are you sitting your junior cert in a few weeks or something? How did you know all of that? If you didn't Google any of them, fair play you have a pretty good memory.

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You scored out of !

Pretty close

Good job, but you need some more work if you want to make it to the covers of the newspapers on results day.

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You scored out of !

You passed!

40% in the junior cert. Nice work

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You scored out of !

You just failed the junior cert

At least you can empathize with the kids a little bit easier now. Unless you are a kid. In that case start studying ASAP

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Can you score 10 out of 10 on these Junior Cert questions?

It won’t be as easy as you expect.