Statistics for 40 Famous People from Ireland

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Actor who played James Bond	Pierce Brosnan	95%
Frontman of the rock band "U2"	Bono	92%
Novelist who wrote "Ulysses"	James Joyce	92%
Founder of the famous Dublin brewery	Arthur Guinness	89%
Singer who performed the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"	Sinead O'Connor	89%
Author of the Gothic horror novel "Dracula"	Bram Stoker	78%
Singer known for her Celtic and New Age stylings	Enya	76%
Novelist who wrote "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"	Oscar Wilde	76%
Actor who portrayed Tommy Shelby in the series Peaky Blinders	Cillian Murphy	73%
Author of "Gulliver's Travels"	Jonathan Swift	68%
Lead singer of the rock band "The Boomtown Rats"	Bob Geldof	65%
Mixed martial artist and UFC champion	Conor McGregor	65%
Actor who portrayed T. E. Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia"	Peter O'Toole	62%
Actress who played in "Atonement", "Brooklyn" and "Ladybird"	Saoirse Ronan	57%
Playwright who wrote "Pygmalion" and "Saint Joan"	George Bernard Shaw	54%
Singer-songwriter and a member of the boy band One Direction	Niall Horan	54%
Most capped player and the top goal scorer of Ireland	Robbie Keane	54%
Lead singer of "The Cranberries"	Dolores O'Riordan	51%
Leading figure in the Irish struggle for independence	Michael Collins	49%
Novelist who wrote the 1953 play "Waiting for Godot"	Samuel Beckett	49%
Actor who played in "Phone Booth", "The Recruit" and "Daredevil"	Colin Farrell	46%
Comedy chat show host	Graham Norton	46%
Poet who wrote "Sailing to Byzantinum"	William Butler Yeats	46%
Female professional boxer and world champion	Katie Taylor	43%
Dumbledore in the early "Harry Potter" films	Richard Harris	43%
Lead singer of boyband group "Boyzone"	Ronan Keating	43%
Anglo-Irish explorer who led three expeditions to the Antarctic	Ernest Shackleton	41%
First female president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997	Mary Robinson	41%
Captain of the Ireland rugby team from 2003 until 2012	Brian O'Driscoll	38%
Famous redhead who often played in westerns and adventure films	Maureen O'Hara	38%
Actor who played in "Steve Jobs" and "12 Years a Slave"	Michael Fassbender	35%
CEO of Ryanair airline	Michael O'Leary	35%
Long distance runner and world champion in athletics	Sonia O'Sullivan	32%
Political leader referred as 'the Liberator'	Daniel O'Connell	30%
Actor who played in The Usual Suspects and Miller’s Crossing	Gabriel Byrne	30%
Comedian and the star of sitcom "Mrs Brown's Boys"	Brendan O'Carroll	27%
Founder of a F1 team which operated from 1991 to 2005	Eddie Jordan	22%
Crime reporter who was shot dead by drug lords in 1996	Veronica Guerin	22%
Female pirate and partner of Calico Jack Rackham	Anne Bonny	19%
Second of only two cyclists to win the Triple Crown of victories	Stephen Roche	16%