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Quiz: The Journal pub quiz - Round 2

Mobiles away, please.
8.30pm, 27 Mar 2016
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PHONES AWAY (UNLESS you’re reading on it), funny team names in.

Let’s start with general knowledge.

This week for the week that’s in it: history.

Which of these men did NOT sign the Irish Proclamation?
Eamonn Ceannt
Thomas Kent

Sean Mac Diarmada
Joseph Plunkett
What was the original name of O'Connell Bridge?
O'Connell Bridge
Sackville Bridge

Parnell Bridge
Carlisle Bridge
Which Irish siege lasted from December 1688 to July 1689?
Derry
Wexford

Drogheda
Ennis
Douglas Hyde was appointed the first Irish President in what year?
1934
1936

1938
1940
Which member of the Apollo 11 crew did not set foot on the moon?
Henry Grattan
Charles Parnell

Michael Collins
John Redmond
Who did JFK beat in the 1960 US election?
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman

Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
With 60,000 deaths, which day is considered the worst in the history of the British army?
D-Day
The first day of the Boer War

The first day of the War of the Roses
The first day of the Battle of the Somme
What nationality was Karl Marx?
Austrian
German

Russian
Belgian
In what year did Ireland become a republic?
1916
1922

1936
1949
Grace Gifford married a 1916 leader in Kilmainham Gaol hours before his execution. Which one?
Thomas MacDonagh
Pádraig Pearse

Thomas Clarke
Joseph Plunkett
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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You're Chasing
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Yeah, we're breaking out a 2003 reference.
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