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Quiz: How much do you know about portals?
There has been much talk of a certain portal this week.
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
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