Winner of our St Patrick’s Day quiz revealed
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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:
- A Dublin lawyer is… A lobster baked with cream and whiskey
- Adolf Hitler had a half-Irish nephew called Patrick: True
- 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
- Which leader of the Irish Rebellion in 1916, who was executed by the British, was born in Edinburgh and married in Dundee? James Connolly
- Which Irish barrister was the first woman to become President of the Irish Republic? Mary Robinson
- Which Irish saint is patron saint of Paisley? St Mirren
- Which Scottish football team formerly had ‘Hibernian’ in its title? Dundee United
- 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
- Which Irish barrister executed for rebel activity has a popular rebel band named after him? Wolfe Tone
- 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
- Which Irish playwright said of Habeas Corpus — “The English always suspended it when it threatened to be of the slightest use.” George Bernard Shaw
- 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