Statistics for Famous Irish People

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Clue	Irish Person	% Correct
Lead singer of U2	Bono	92%
Brought Christianity to Ireland (and got rid of snakes)	Saint Patrick	85%
Singer who shaved her head and tore up a picture of the pope	Sinead O'Connor	74%
Star of "Taken" and "Schindler's List"	Liam Neeson	71%
He was Bond, James Bond	Pierce Brosnan	64%
Author of "Dracula"	Bram Stoker	63%
Only actor to win three Oscars for Best Actor. Star of "Lincoln".	Daniel Day-Lewis	63%
He wrote "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake"	James Joyce	62%
Highest paid MMA fighter in history	Conor McGregor	59%
Victorian playwright sentenced to hard labour for being gay	Oscar Wilde	58%
"Brown Eyed Girl" singer	Van Morrison	52%
Member of One Direction	Niall Horan	47%
Star of "Alexander" and "In Bruges"	Colin Farrell	46%
World's best-selling Celtic singer	Enya	40%
1968 European Footballer of the Year	George Best	39%
Golfer who has won four major championships since 2011	Rory McIlroy	38%
"Pygmalion" playwright	George Bernard Shaw	34%
Leader of Sinn Féin, 1983–2018	Gerry Adams	30%
Poet and 1923 Nobel Prize winner	W. B. Yeats	23%
Satirist with a "modest proposal" to eat poor Irish children	Jonathan Swift	17%
19th century leader known as "The Liberator"	Daniel O'Connell	12%