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Quiz: Are you smarter than Ireland's top quizzers?
Ireland’s top quizzers headed to the World Quizzing Championships in Terenure, Dublin yesterday.
YESTERDAY SAW SOME of Ireland’s top quizzers head to the World Quizzing Championships in Terenure, Dublin.
The quiz takes place all around the world on the same day, at hundreds of venues, with thousands of quizzers taking part.
It’s an individual quiz with two separate written papers totalling 240 questions across eight subject areas: Culture, Entertainment, History, Lifestyle, Media, Sciences, Sport & Games, and World.
So in light of that, we had a quiz champion from the Irish Quiz Organisation design a quiz for TheJournal.ie.
Which James Bond film is named after Ian Fleming's estate in Jamaica, which shares its name with a type of duck?
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Skyfall
Spectre
Thunderball
Goldeneye
What is the most famous creation of the Danish architect Jorn Utzon?
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Dublin Airport Terminal 2
Burj Khalifa, Dubai
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sydney Opera House
Which historical figure's horse was named Bucephalus?
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Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Caligula
Duke of Wellington
Ada Lovelace, regarded by some as the first ever computer programmer, was the daughter of which poet?
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Byron
Keats
Shelley
Wordsworth
Privé is the haute couture line of which fashion house?
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Dior
Armani
Givenchy
Prada
Originating in the southern United States, what is the primary ingredient of 'grits'?
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Corn
Barley
Wheat
Rice
There are about 6,000 languages spoken in the world. About 1,000 of them are spoken on which single island?
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Madagascar
Borneo
New Guinea
Sumatra
Phlebotomists are people trained to do what?
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Take blood pressure
Test hearing
Administer vaccines
Draw blood
CH4 is the chemical formula for which gas?
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Methane
Acetylene
Butane
Ammonia
In standard packs of playing cards, what object is each of the four queens typically holding in her hand?
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Cup
Sceptre
Flower
Sword
Port Jackson, one of the largest natural harbours in the world, is found at which city?
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Hong Kong
Vancouver
San Francisco
Sydney
Which mountain, the highest in Canada, shares its name with a Eurovision song contest winning singer?
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Mount Quinn
Mount Logan
Mount Martin
Mount Kavanagh
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Top Dog!
Spot on
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Clever cat
Almost purrfect
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Fintastic
Flippin' good
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What ewe you doing?
Baaaaad!
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Turtley awful
A shell of a bad effort
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