Winner of our St Patrick’s Day quiz revealed

Winner of our St Patrick's Day quiz revealed

We hope you enjoyed our St Patrick’s Day quiz on Friday.

We received 122 responses, of which 44 were correct.

The winner is Scott Clair of Balfour+Manson.

Congratulations Scott! We will be in touch.


The correct quiz answers were as follows:

  1. A Dublin lawyer is… A lobster baked with cream and whiskey
  2. Adolf Hitler had a half-Irish nephew called Patrick: True
  3. A ceremony once held in most European countries to mark the annual opening of the courts has now become an annual event for the Catholic Church as a mass for members of the legal profession. It is known as: A Red Mass
  4. Which leader of the Irish Rebellion in 1916, who was executed by the British, was born in Edinburgh and married in Dundee? James Connolly
  5. Which Irish barrister was the first woman to become President of the Irish Republic? Mary Robinson
  6. Which Irish saint is patron saint of Paisley? St Mirren
  7. Which Scottish football team formerly had ‘Hibernian’ in its title? Dundee United
  8. Which Glasgow bank robber received a Royal Pardon in 1976 having been wrongly convicted for the 1969 murder of Rachel Ross in Ayr? Paddy Meehan
  9. Which Irish barrister executed for rebel activity has a popular rebel band named after him? Wolfe Tone
  10. Sir Edward Carson, acting for Scottish aristocrat the Marquis of Queensbury, caused the downfall of which Irish dramatist by his skilful cross-examination? Oscar Wilde
  11. Which Irish playwright said of Habeas Corpus — “The English always suspended it when it threatened to be of the slightest use.” George Bernard Shaw
  12. The Saville Inquiry found that the Bloody Sunday victims of the Derry massacre had been innocent. What was the name of the first, discredited, inquiry? The Widgery Inquiry
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