1

What primary colour do you mix with blue to get green? 

2

How many leaves on a shamrock?

3

What international company sells the mint flavoured Shamrock Shakes every year around this time?

4

Name these four Irish authors

5

What company made the Walkman and Discman music devices?

6

Stones that are used in Olympic curling are only made on the island of Ailse Craig in Scotland. What kind of stone are they made from?

7

Since 2016, citizens from which country account for the biggest number of applications for Irish citizenship with over 250,000 applications for a passport?

8

Name these six movies, all filmed on location on the island of Ireland


9

Started in 2005 and still ongoing today The Great Green Wall was an initiative to stop the spread of which African desert?

10

Pointless Question: 100 people were given 100 seconds to name any country in the world that has a z in it. Name any one

11

Four well known Irish songs, voices removed and instruments can only be heard one at a time. Name the four songs

12

Name any Irish woman nominated for an acting Oscar in the 21st century. Except Saoirse Ronan

13

Which US Statesman, the third president of the USA is said to be the inventor of the swivel chair, he was apparently sitting on one when he signed the Declaration of Independence?

14

Name these six countries, all of them with a lot of green

15

Which American fast food chain which opened its first stores in Sweden (Stockholm and Uppsala) just over  a year ago, was founded by Janey and Jerry Murrell in 1986  and was named after Jerry and his four sons?

16

In 2017, which singer songwriter became the first person to receive double EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) when he won an Oscar for the song Remember Me which appeared in the Pixar film CoCo? He also won an Oscar three years earlier for Let it Go from Frozen

17

A famous 1958 film starring Kim Novak, a medical ailment, and a 2004 UK number one hit single (top 10 in the US). One word.

18

Name the companies behind each of these famous Irish brands 

19

What classic novel, written by an Irish born author,  was to be originally titled “The Dead Un-dead” and then “The Un-dead” 

20

What colour hair does the woman standing in the shell have in Botticelli’s painting “The Birth Of Venus”?

21

Which book was published first, The Hobbit or Chronicles of Narnia?

22

One of the best groups to ever come out of i<reland are the Chieftains. Some of their most famous releases were collaborations with musical stars from around the world. Here are six clips, name the six international artists

 

 

1

Yellow

2

Three

3

McDonalds

4

a) Sally Rooney

b) Oscar Wilde

c) George Bernard Shaw

d) James Joyce

5

Sony

6

Granite (Granit)

7

United Kingdom

8

a) Star Wars, Episode 7, The Force Awakens

b) Saving Private Ryan

c) Braveheart

d) The Princess Bride

e) Barry Lyndon

f) Excalibur

9

The Sahara

10

1 Point

New Zealand, Switzerland, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Czechia, 

2 Points
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe

3 Points

Uzbekistan, Belize, 

4 Points 

Kyrgyzstan, 

11

a) Whiskey in the Jar , Thin Lizzy, 1972

b) Orinoco Flow, Enya, 1988, 2

c) Vertigo, U2, 2004,, 2

d) Too Sweet , Hozier, 2024, 

12

Jessie Buckley
Hamnet, 2026
The Lost Daughter, 2021

Ruth Negga
Loving, 2016

Kerry Condon
Inisherin 2022

13

Thomas Jefferson

14

a) Ivory Coast

b) Italy

c) Bulgaria

d) Mauritania

e) Uzbekistan

f) Saudi Arabia

15

Five Guys

16

Robert Lopez 

17

Vertigo

18

a) Ryanair

b) Aer Lingus

c) Guinness

d) Baileys Irish Cream

19

Dracula

20

Red

21

The Hobbit

1937 v 1950

22

a) Midge Ure or Ultravox

b) Sting

c) Willie Nelson

d) Van Morrison

e) Paolo Nutini

f) Sinead O’Connor

 

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FQPS March 12th 2026