#1:  Who directed The Quiet Man?  Choose OneOscar WildeJohn FordDan O'HerlihyJohn Huston

#2:  Who starred as Frank Skeffington, an Irish-American political boss, in The Last Harrah?   Choose OneJames CagneyBarry FitzgeraldSpencer TracyJohn Huston

#3:  Who starred as Finian's daughter?  Choose oneGrace KellyMaureen O'HaraMeryl StreepPetula Clark

#4:  In what 1959 movie about the early I.R.A. did James Cagney star? Choose oneCalShake Hands with the DevilThe Last HurrahMiss Eire

#5:  Since it first formed an Olympic team in 1924, how many gold medals has Ireland won? Choose oneFourNineFifteenNone

#6:  How many players are on a Gaelic football team? Choose oneFourFifteenTwelveTen

#7:  Whose "Modest Proposal" suggested the eating of young children as a solution to Ireland's economic problem? Choose oneJonathan Swift'sEdmund Burke'sRudyard Kipling'sWilliam Gladstones\'s

#8:  What Irish writer left Ireland for London after the banning of the book The Dark in 1965? Choose oneJames JoyceEdna O'BrienSamuel BeckettJohn McGahern

#9:  Who wrote, "I could not write the words Mr. Joyce uses:  my prudish hands would refuse to form the letters? Choose oneW.B. YeatsErnest HemingwayGeorge Bernard ShawGertrude Stein

#10:  At the performance of what Abbey Theatre play in 1926 did W.B. Yates declare to the rioting audience, "You have disgraced yourselves again"? Choose oneThe Silver TassieRiders to the SeaThe Plough and the StarsThe Iceman Cometh  

#11:  How many Irishmen have won the Nobel Prize for literature'?  Choose OneOneTwoThreeFour

#12:  What famous Irish actress died in 1987?   Choose OneSiobhan McKennaMaureen O'HaraGrace KellyMaud Gonne

#13:  To whom did W.B. Yeats dedicate much of his love poetry?  Choose oneKathleen ni HoulihanSarah YeatesDark RosaleenMaud Gonne

#14:  What famous manuscript is housed in the Long Room, in Trinity College Library in Dublin? Choose oneThe Magna CartaThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Lindisfarne GospelsThe Book of Kells

#15:  What 1959 Disney movie included an Irish storyteller who falls down a well? Choose oneDarby O'Gill and the Little PeopleFinian's RainbowRyans DaughterGoing My Way

#16:  Who played the young priest in Going My Way in 1940? Choose oneBarry FitzgeraldDennis MorganBing CrosbySpencer Tracy

#17:  In what 1949 movie, starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, did the Blarney Stone disappear? Choose oneThe Luck of the IrishTop o' the MorningDarby O'Gill and the Little PeopleFinian's Rainbow

#18:  Who starred as Parnell in the movie of that name in 1937? Choose oneJohn BoycottErrol FlynnJames CagneyClark Gable

#19:  On whose novel was The Informer based? Choose oneLiam O'Flaherty'sJames Joyce'sFrank O'Connor'sLeon Uris's

#20:  Who won an Oscar in 1935 for his direction of The Informer? Choose oneDavid LeanJohn FordJohn HustonJohn O'Hara

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