Statistics for Famous Irish People

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Lead-singer of U2	Bono	98%
Patron saint celebrated on March 17	Saint Patrick	95%
Founder of a famous brewery that bears his name	Arthur Guinness	88%
Author of Ulysses	James Joyce	81%
James Bond actor	Pierce Brosnan	79%
Nothing Compares 2 U singer	Sinéad O'Connor	76%
Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List	Liam Neeson	70%
Creator of Count Dracula	Bram Stoker	68%
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	66%
Northern Irish footballer who spent most of his career playing for Manchester United	George Best	62%
Revolutionary leader who was killed during the Irish Civil War	Michael Collins	61%
Actor who stars in Tigerland, Miami Vice and Alexander	Colin Farrell	52%
Leader of Ireland's struggle for independence and future president from 1959-1973	Éamon de Valera	52%
He starred as Lawrence of Arabia	Peter O'Toole	52%
Satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	50%
Nobel Prize-winning Poet and founder of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin	William Butler Yeats	44%
Writer of Waiting for Godot who was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature	Samuel Beckett	41%
Red-headed actress who often worked with John Ford and John Wayne	Maureen O'Hara	39%