You Think You Know Northern Ireland? Round 1 Quiz

Answer: Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan.

Longford, Louth and Westmeath are counties of the Republic of Ireland and are in the province of Leinster. Derry/Londonderry, Antrim and Down are in Northern Ireland. Kerry, Limerick and Clare are counties of the Republic of Ireland and are in the province of Munster.

Answer: Enniskillen

Armagh is a medium-sized town that was granted city status in 1994, it is also the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland. Lisburn and Newry were granted city status in 2002 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

Answer: Newry

Armagh has one Protestant and one Catholic cathedral, both called St. Patrick's. Belfast has St. Anne's (Protestant) and St.Peter's (Catholic). Derry/Londonderry also has two - St. Eugene's (Catholic) and St Columb's (Protestant). Newry has the Cathedral of Saints Patrick and Colman (Catholic).

Answer: Armagh

Both Belfast and Derry/Londonderry have campuses of the University of Ulster and Belfast also has Queen's University. Coleraine is the site of another campus of the University of Ulster. Armagh briefly had an outreach centre of Queen's University opened in the 1996s which closed in 2005.

Answer: Steam turbine

Co. Down man James Martin was a co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company. He developed an explosive charge to eject a pilot in flight creating the first ejector seat in 1945.
Prof. Pantridge, born in County Down, was a Cardiologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital he developed the portable defibrillator in the early 1960s, for which he has become as 'the Father of Emergency Medicine'.
Born in Co. Down, Hans Sloane was a physician who spent time in Jamaica where the local brew was cocoa beans mixed with water that Sloane described as "nauseous". He mixed the cocoa with milk and sugar to make it more palatable, inventing milk chocolate.
The steam turbine was invented by Sir Charles Parsons, in 1884, born in London into an Anglo-Irish family whose ancestral home was Birr Castle, County Offaly, in the Republic of Ireland.

Answer: "Titanic: Blood and Steel" (2012).

Despite being about the most famous ship built in the Belfast ship yards, "Titanic: Blood and Steel" was filmed in Serbia and Dublin.

Answer: The Giants Causeway

The other three are areas of outstanding beauty (AONB) as designated by the Department of the Environment for NI. The Giants Causeway is also part of the Causeway Coast (AONB) but the Causeway itself was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1986.

It is an area containing about 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns which geologists say are the result of the cooling of lava from an ancient volcanic eruption.

Answer: Finn Mac Cool

Finn MacCool and the Scottish giant Bendonna were enemies so to get at Bendonna, Finn built the causeway from Ulster to Scotland. However on seeing the size of Bendonna he had second thoughts and ran back home to his wife. When Bendonna came looking for him Finn's wife hid him in the baby's cradle; when Bendonna saw the size of the baby he too he had second thoughts and decided not to hang around to meet the baby's father. So Bendonna ran back home to Scotland tearing up the causeway as he went.

Answer: Lough Neagh

Lough Neagh supplies 40% of Northern Ireland's water, has an area of 150 square miles (about 390 km2), and has shores on five of Northern Ireland's six counties.

Answer: The Lower Bann

The Six Mile Water, River Main, The Moyola,Glenavy River, Crumlin River, Blackwater and the Ballinderry River all flow into Lough Neagh.
The Upper Bann flows also flows into Lough Neagh and the Lower Bann flows out. Together the Upper and Lower Bann form the longest river in Northern Ireland, famous for its eel and salmon the Lower Bann flows into the Atlantic.