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The Cow Quiz

  1. In what year did Ireland join the European Economic Community (now the EU)?
    (a) 1970 (b) 1973 (c) 1979
  2. The Connemara pony originated in which county?
    (a) Clare (b) Galway (c) Mayo
  3. Cashel Blue cheese originates from which Irish county?
    (a) Tipperary (b) Limerick (c) Kilkenny
  4. Which Irish island is famous for its puffin colonies?
    (a) Skellig Michael (b) Rathlin Island (c) Tory Island
  5. Which Irish poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923?
    (a) Seamus Heaney (b) W. B. Yeats (c) Patrick Kavanagh
  6. What county is known as “The Kingdom”?
    (a) Cork (b) Kerry (c) Clare
  7. Which Irish humanitarian nun founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831?
    (a) Catherine McAuley (b) Nano Nagle (c) Mary Aikenhead
  8. Who was Ireland’s first female President?
    (a) Mary Robinson (b) Mary McAleese (c) Countess Markievicz
  9. Which Irish actor starred in Brooklyn and Little Women?
    (a) Jessie Buckley (b) Saoirse Ronan (c) Ruth Negga
  10. Bonus Cheese Question: In which century did people begin to start dying cheese orange to fool people into thinking it was a better quality?
    (a) 16th Century (b) 17th Century (c) 18th Century

Answers

  1. (b) 1973
  2. (b) Galway
  3. (a) Tipperary
  4. (a) Skellig Michael
  5. (b) W. B. Yeats
  6. (b) Kerry
  7. (a) Catherine McAuley
  8. (a) Mary Robinson
  9. (b) Saoirse Ronan
  10. (b) 17th Century (English cheesemakers realized that they could make more money if they skimmed off the cream — to sell it separately or make butter from it. But in doing so, most of the colour was lost, since the natural orange pigment is carried in the fatty cream. They began adding colouring from saffron, marigold and carrot juice to pass their products off as the full-fat, naturally yellowish-orange cheese that Londoners had come to expect.)

 

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