Country Quiz: Ireland Quiz

Hint	Answer
Official Name
Name in Irish
Flag Colour
Flag Colour
Flag Colour
Continent
Number of Counties
Number of Provinces
Longest River
Largest Island (excluding country itself)
Highest Peak
Taoiseach/Prime Minister
President
Name of Parliament Buildings
Party with most seats in Parliament
Capital City
Smallest County
Largest County
Name a Province
Name a Province
Name a Province
Name a Province
Currency
Member of the EU
Official Language

Hint	Answer
Official Language
Most celebrated National Saint (National Day is his feast day)
National Day
Main Religion
Symbol on the coat of arms
National Emblem
No of times Ireland have won the Eurovision Song Contest
Drive on the ...
Most famous Irish band, based on albums sold
National Anthem
National Sport
Biggest Stadium
Most Successful Hurling Team
Most Successful Gaelic Football Team
Three time Golf Major winner
Gained Independence from
Internet Country Code
Famous Irish speaking part of Galway
Bordering Ocean
World renowned Rugby player and record Irish try scorer
Legal age to vote
National Park in Co Kerry that is very popular with tourists
Acclaimed Irish Poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923
Name of day after Christmas Day
Oldest Institution of Higher Learning

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Country Quiz: Ireland

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Created Mar 15, 2010 in Geography
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	cep8888:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 21:06 GMT	1 point
	You should change it to accept single digit numbers

	beckala63:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 21:07 GMT	1 point
	Trinity is spelled wrong, and you should accept March 17

	Ireland:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 21:22 GMT	0 points
	Think I changed the first requested. Fixed Trinity and March 17.

	peanut4:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 21:42 GMT	2 points
	Is Gaelic Games really a sport or more a collection of sports? A couple of random and entirely objective answers in there like U2, Brian O'Driscoll, Padraig Harrington. And how do define the most successful teams?

	Ireland:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 22:42 GMT	1 point
	Gaelic Games is a collection of two sports and they are the most popular in the country. I know Brian O'Driscoll & Padraig Harrington are objective. Maybe I should say who are the most famous Irish Golfer and Rugby player and they are the two. U2 on the other hand are the most famous Irish band in the world, they have sold more albums worldwide than any other. Most successful is based on the amount of time the teams have won the All-Ireland Championship (the main competition in the Sports). Kerry have won the Gaelic Football All Ireland 36 times and Kilkenny have won the Hurling All Ireland 32 times.

	Ireland:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 22:50 GMT	0 points
	By the way, I have changed the answer to the National Sport. Hurling, Gaelic Football are now acceptable along with GAA and Gaelic Games.

	turgidstan:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 23:22 GMT	5 points
	You're talking about the Republic, so you should really only count the 26 counties that are part of it, instead of all 32 on the island. Also the EU question was unclear, please either show that it's a yes/no question or change it to year of membership. I'm glad to see this quiz otherwise though.

	Ireland:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 00:41 GMT	-3 points
	26 is also accepted as an answer for the number of counties in Ireland question. Was thinking the EU question might cause a bit of confusion, but I thought if I put in Yes/No it would be too easy as the quiz taker will get it right. Think I will just leave it, unless I get more feedback about it.

	Riko:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 06:05 GMT	-4 points
	the EU question, i kept typing "1993" and "original member" before i realized it was y/n. Oh and cant you accept "republican" for Fianna Fail? or "United Ireland" for Fine Gael? i almost never hear anyone say Fianna fail but i hear the other names in good use. Also, no Michael Collins in the quiz???

	Ireland:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 15:05 GMT	1 point
	Ireland didn't join the EU in 1993, so that was wrong anyway. The parties are Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, no offensive but you don't know what you are talking about!!

	duckie527:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 19:07 GMT	2 points
	Very nice! Can you change McAleese and Cowen so that they are accepted with just the last names?

	Ireland:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 21:07 GMT	-1 points
	Thanks duckie, everyone else just seems to have something negative to say!! Will make that change too.

	abanazerb:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 14:34 GMT	4 points
	Good quiz, thanks. One quibble: is it a "country quiz" as it states, or an "island quiz"? A quiz should be about what is, not what should be. The displayed 32 and 4 should be 26 and 3-and-a-bit. On the other hand, no problem at all with the sportsmen you picked - they were both my first guess.

	Hejman:	Mar 17th, 2010 at 23:22 GMT	3 points
	Fun quiz and I learned several things about Ireland that I didn't know before. One suggestion- the white lettering is a bit hard to read against the light green background. A darker green might not be consistent with the color on Ireland's flag, but I would suggest either a darker green background or black lettering in the hint column.

	chewgoo:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 00:14 GMT	1 point
	For number of counties, I typed in 26, and it gave me the answer 32. Umm…

	Ireland:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 15:06 GMT	-2 points
	Offical there is 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland, but if you include the whole island their is 32. I didn't want to get into a whole political arguement so I just accepted both 26 and 32.

	kingme:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 16:07 GMT	-1 points
	For best band u should have Jedward

	mcduschvorhang:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 13:09 GMT	1 point
	I like the quiz! Especially questions like "Most famous band" are good if they - which is the case here - are objective. Misspelled "National Emblem" and "Member of the EU"...

	buckleppin:	May 4th, 2010 at 02:08 GMT	2 points
	Ok, a big whinge here but I like your quizzes... I understand accepting both 26 and 32 but I think you should display 26 as the answer. Brigid is also a national saint, as is Columba. Camogie, Rounders and Handball are also Gaelic Games. Instead of "most famous" or "world renowned", wouldn't it be better and less subjective to say "Best-selling", "Major-Winning" and "Record Try Scorer"? Trinity is also the University of Dublin and Dublin University. "Memeber" and "Embelm" still spelt wrong.

	multiplayertim:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 23:06 GMT	2 points
	Trinity is not the university of dublin its name is trinity college dublin if you want more specific two other colleges exist in dublin, dublin college university (DCU) and university college dublin(UCD) so accepting university of dublin wouldn't be correct

	multiplayertim:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 23:09 GMT	2 points
	well i suppose it used be called university of dublin at one point but its really widely known as trinity these days

	MallowKevin:	Jul 2nd, 2010 at 01:25 GMT	2 points
	Just to respond to multiplayertim, Trinity is a college within the University of Dublin, in the same way that there are lots of different constituent colleges that make up Oxford or Cambridge University. It just happens that the University of Dublin doesn't have any colleges apart from Trinity, but accepting University of Dublin would be correct. Great quiz, great questions. A bit hard to read, but the colours are very patriotic so I can't complain

	irish_guy:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 12:21 GMT	0 points
	Taoiseach doesn't translate to prime minister. Prime Minister translates to Príomh Aire. Taoisech doesn't translate into english. (Take it from someone who actualy speaks Irish fluantly)

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	ThomasNUFC:	Aug 10th, 2010 at 11:50 GMT	-4 points
	This is possibly the wort quiz i have ever played, and i have played lots of bad quizzes in my time, this is very tedious indeed.

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	MallowKevin:	Aug 28th, 2010 at 02:17 GMT	6 points
	irish_guy, I think it's fair enough translating Taoiseach as 'Prime Minister', seeing as that's the equivalent office in other countries. It'd hardly be a fair question to ask who's the 'Chieftain of Ireland'. And it's spelt 'fluently'. Clearly your English isn't as good as your Irish