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Memory

QUIZ: How well do you remember the '90s?

Test your knowledge.
8.30pm, 3 Jan 2015
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YOUR RE-RUNS OF Friends won’t help you here….

This is all about Ireland in the 1990s.

Which of these people did NOT contest the 1990 Presidential Election?
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Mary Robinson
Photocall Ireland
Austin Currie

Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Brian Lenihan
Photocall Ireland
Proinsias De Rossa
Where did Toto Schillaci break Irish hearts on 30 June 1990?
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The San Siro
Tony Marshall/EMPICS Sport
Stadio Olimpico

Paolo Margari
Stadio San Nicola
Pochos/Wikimedia
Stadio San Paolo
What year was Transition Year introduced as an extra, optional year in Secondary Schools?
Photocall Ireland
1994
1993

1995
1991
Roddy Doyle won the Booker Prize in 1993... But for what book?
The Woman Who Walked into Doors
The Van

paddy clarke ha ha ha
The Snapper
During the 1990s, how many leaders of Fine Gael were there?
Photocall Ireland
3
2

1
4
Which new television station launched in October 1996?
Oireachtas TV
TV3

TnaG
Network 2 became RTE 2
What did the 15th Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland do?
Allowed politicians to claim more expenses
Allowed women to travel for abortions

Allowed Ireland to sign the Good Friday Agreement
Repealed the constitutional prohibition of divorce
What is the name of this village?
Ballykissangel
Avoca

Ballykissane
Kilcoole
What year did Gay Byrne interview Annie Murphy, the mother of Bishop Eamon Casey's son, on the Late Late Show?
1992
1993

1990
1991
In 1998, the All-Ireland Hurling semi-final had to be replayed because it was blown up two minutes early. Who was the referee in charge?
John Cooney
Jimmy Kearney

Jimmy Cooney
John Carney
What year was homosexuality decriminalised in Ireland?
GLEN
1997
1994

1990
1993
Westlife had their first number 1 in 1999. What was the name of the song?
Swear it Again
Flying Without Wings

Fool Again
When You're Looking Like That
When did Bill Clinton receive the Freedom of Dublin?
JOE MARQUETTE/AP/Press Association Images
November 1995
August 1995

December 1995
January 1996
What year did this meeting between Mary Robinson and Queen Elizabeth II take place?
1993
1996

1994
1990
True or False: The PSNI was established during the 1990s?
True
False
Answer all the questions to see your result!
You scored out of !
You're Anne Doyle!
Knowing everything about the 1990s is LITERALLY your job.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You're Gay Byrne!
You know a thing or two but still manage to get the odd thing very wrong.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You're Jack Charlton!
Almost infallible, if it wasn't for that Italian fella.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You're Zig & Zag!
You're cleverer than people give you credit for.
Share your result:
Laurence Griffiths/EMPICS Sport
You scored out of !
You're Jason McAteer!
Not the brightest spark of the 1990s. But we all still love you.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You're an Inflatable Tri-Colour Hammer!
You obviously were born after Italia '90.
Share your result:

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