Statistics for History of Ireland

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Ireland's Patron Saint?	Saint Patrick	96%
What crop died during the famine?	Potato	95%
In which year was the Easter Rising?	1916	88%
In which year did Ireland achieve independence?	1922	58%
Irish Republican Leader who was shot dead in Béal na mBláth?	Michael Collins	58%
Number of Irish Republicians who died in the 1981 Hungerstrike?	10	45%
How many people died on Bloodly Sunday 1972?	14	44%
Leader of 1916 attack on British Army?	Padraig Pearse	35%
Who was the first president of Irish Republic?	Douglas Hyde	25%
Earl of Tyrone who left Ireland for France in the flight of the earls?	Hugh O'Neill	13%
Which war took place between 1689-1691?	Williamite	8%
Another name for the Irish Famine?	The Great Famine	7%
First Irish Republician Hungerstriker to die on Hungerstrike?	Thomas Ashe	4%
The total number of Irish emigrants throughout the world?	70 Millon	3%
Another name poetically given to Ireland?	The land of saints and scholars	2%