| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Bordering counties | Leitrim | 100%
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| County town of Sligo | Sligo | 100%
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| Nobel Prize winning poet and senator, friend of the Gore-Booths. Sligo is often knowns as "... Country' after him | W B Yeats | 100%
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| In 1588 three ships of the Spanish ... were shipwrecked off the coast of Streedagh beach | Armada | 86%
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| The above lines are from his poem "Under ... ...", referring to a spectacular mountain nearby | Benbulben | 86%
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| Province that Sligo is in | Connacht | 86%
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| Bordering counties | Mayo | 86%
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| Lord ..., a relative of the British Royal family, was assassinated off the coast of Sligo in 1979 | Mountbatten | 86%
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| Bordering counties | Roscommon | 86%
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| Constance Gore-Booth became the first woman elected to the British parliament as Constance ... | Markievicz | 71%
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| World championship competitions of which water sport have been held off the Sligo coast because of the ideal conditions there | Surfing | 71%
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| Churchyard where the above is buried | Drumcliff | 57%
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| Mountain near Strandhill, where the legendary Queen Maeve is said to be buried | Knocknarea | 57%
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| Historic stately home, once the home of the Gore-Booth family | Lissadell | 57%
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| 3 members of this boy band were from Sligo. They had 14 UK number one singles | Westlife | 57%
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| Epitaph in the above on question 5's gravestone "Cast a cold eye on life, on ... Horseman pass by" | Death | 43%
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| Sligo-born Pauline McGlynn played which character in "Father Ted" | Mrs Doyle | 43%
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| Coastal village and harbour near which this incident occurred | Mullaghmore | 43%
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| The All Ireland ... Derby is an annual event in the above village | Donkey | 29%
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| Academy award winning writer and film director (Mona Lisa, The Crying Game etc) | Neil Jordan | 29%
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