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Statistics for Embarrassing chapters in Irish history
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- This quiz has been taken 313 times
- The average score is 6 of 19
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Though never technically banned, this masterpiece by James Joyce is not sold in Ireland due to strict censorship laws. | Ulysses | 51%
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| Irish dignitaries lay out the red carpet for this Russian leader who doesn't make it off the plane. | Boris Yeltsin | 45%
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| This WW2 era leader signs Hitler's book of condolences in order to maintain Ireland's symbolic neutrality. | Eamon de Valera | 45%
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| This firebrand preacher denounces Pope John Paul II as anti-Christ when he addresses the European parliament. | Ian Paisley | 45%
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| In 2014 the mayor of Dublin claims his constituents have asked Obama to intervene after the controversial cancellation of concerts involving this country star. | Garth Brooks | 38%
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| Divorce does not become legal in Ireland until a referendum in what year? Even then it only passes by less than one percent. | 1995 | 36%
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| This future Taoiseach, at the time a cabinet minister, allegedly attempts to import arms for the IRA in 1970 | Charles Haughey | 33%
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| The Irish government receives a congratulatory message from this American group after new citizenship laws are passed in 2004. | Ku Klux Klan | 33%
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| A controlled explosion carried out by the Irish Army causes more damage than the explosion caused by the IRA when they destroyed this monument in Dublin's O'Connell Street. | Nelson's Pillar | 31%
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| Eoin O'Duffy leads this short-lived fascist group. | Blueshirts | 30%
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| Riots break out at the Abbey Theatre after the word 'shift' is uttered during the opening night of this play by JM Synge. | Playboy of the western world | 28%
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| In the 2004 Olympics, this Show Jumper is stripped of a gold medal after his horse is found to have taken performance enhancing drugs. | Cian O'Connor | 27%
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| The collapse of this bank is one of the major factors that causes economic catastrophe in Ireland leading to an international bailout in 2010. | Anglo-Irish | 25%
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| This type of expression is banned in Ireland in 2009, although the ban has not yet been enforced. | Blasphemy | 22%
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| The IRA kill 11 and injure 63 when it bombed the Remembrance Sunday commemoration in this Northern Irish town. | Enniskillen | 21%
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| A 'second civil war' breaks out as Irish sports fans take sides after Roy Keane argues with Mick McCarthy during Ireland's World Cup preparations on what island? | Saipan | 19%
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| This tribunal discovers huge levels of political corruption,contributing to the resignation of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern | Mahon Tribunal | 18%
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| Thousands protest Ireland's abortion laws after this Indian dentist is refused an abortion and subsequently loses her life. | Savita Halappanavar | 17%
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| And again after this play by Sean O'Casey opened in 1926. | The plough and the stars | 12%
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