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Quiz: How much do you know about portals?

There has been much talk of a certain portal this week.
10.01pm, 18 May 2024
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AH, PORTALS.

Gateways to strange and magical worlds, time and space bending rifts in the universe, places where you can flash strangers on different continents or, quite simply, doors.

For as long as humans have been going inside they’ve been passing through portals. But how much do you know about these famous portals?

Handy enough one to start. Alice fell down this and ended up in Wonderland.
The Stairs
The Rabbit Hole

The Mad Hatter's hat
The Sandymount Sinkhole
And Alice went through *this* to end up in a lesser known magical land.
The Looking Glass
The Curtain

The Port Tunnel
The Window
For anyone forced to watch daytime Sky One in the early 00's. What is this called?
A planetdoor
A Spacehopper

A Timering
A Stargate
According To Dante, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter" is written above the gate to where?
Heaven
Hell

Leinster House
Purgatory
Can you name this video game?
Portals
Portal

The Time-Bending Adventures of Dr. X
Half-Life 2
Monsters use portals to scare children, but can you name these two monsters?
Bill and Ted
Norm and Greg

Sully and Mike
Frank and Sam
A portal is a door. Where will this door lead you?
10 Oxford Street
10 Downing Street

10 Baker Street
10 Leinster Street
If you walked through here, where would you end up?
Middle Earth
New York City

Oz
Narnia
The portal of the moment. But who is the artist behind it?
Benediktas Gylys
Tracy Emin

Damien Hirst
Johann Koch
And finally. Can you name this Dublin portal?
The Port Tunnel
The Portal Tunnel

The Éamon de Valera Tunnel
The M1 Tunnel
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Shell of a bad effort
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What are ewe doing?
Baaaaaad
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Fin-tastic
Flippin good
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Clever cat
Almost purr-fect
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Top dog
Paws-itively perfect
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