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Northern Irish towns: strange and interesting facts - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 23 times
- The average score is 11 of 15
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| This Antrim town is one of the oldest in Ireland, dating back to 1177, and was historically larger and more important than nearby Belfast. Football team Carrick Rangers play here. | Carrickfergus | 95%
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| This small County Down city, a popular seaside resort, has the same name as a city in Wales and 14 towns in North America. | Bangor | 90%
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| A well-known whiskey is made in this Antrim village, which is close to the northernmost point in the province. | Bushmills | 90%
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| The 2019 Open Championship was held at this Antrim town's golf course. | Portrush | 81%
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| A man from this Fermanagh town was jailed in 2011 for setting fire to a block of flats while trying to make gold from his own faeces using a heater. | Enniskillen | 76%
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| This suburb of Belfast now has city status. In 1641, the Irish drove 400 cows into the town gates to ram them and try to batter them down. | Lisburn | 76%
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| William III's supporters set fire to this Tyrone county town in 1689. | Omagh | 76%
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| The archbishop of this county town (recently given city status) has the title Primate of All Ireland. | Armagh | 67%
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| The headland by this village marks the closest point of the island of Ireland to Great Britain, a 12-mile gap (to the Mull of Kintyre). | Torr | 67%
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| A Flybe pilot lost control of his plane on approach to this city's airport in 2014, when his prosthetic arm fell off. | Belfast | 62%
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| In 2013, police in this Derry suburb chased a man wearing only stockings and suspenders through the woods. A local councillor stated that up to 150 people a day were indulging in sexual and deviant activity at that spot. | Prehen | 62%
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A monastery was built at the site of this county town on Lough Neagh in 495 AD; its tower is still standing today. | Antrim | 57%
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| This city had a well-known local drunk, "Tights" Downey, who would sing and play his harmonica on the bus. | Derry | 57%
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| This town in County Londonderry has a Mesolithic site dating from around 5935 BC. | Coleraine | 52%
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| In 2014, a naked, axe-wielding man was injured after jumping from a second floor window in this Armagh town. | Lurgan | 48%
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