Quiz: Are you smarter than Ireland's top quizzers?

Ireland’s top quizzers headed to the World Quizzing Championships in Terenure, Dublin yesterday.

YESTERDAY SAW SOME of Ireland’s top quizzers head to the World Quizzing Championships in Terenure, Dublin.

The quiz takes place all around the world on the same day, at hundreds of venues, with thousands of quizzers taking part.

It’s an individual quiz with two separate written papers totalling 240 questions across eight subject areas: Culture, Entertainment, History, Lifestyle, Media, Sciences, Sport & Games, and World.

So in light of that, we had a quiz champion from the Irish Quiz Organisation design a quiz for TheJournal.ie.

Which James Bond film is named after Ian Fleming's estate in Jamaica, which shares its name with a type of duck?

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Skyfall

Spectre

Thunderball

Goldeneye

What is the most famous creation of the Danish architect Jorn Utzon?

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Dublin Airport Terminal 2

Burj Khalifa, Dubai

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Sydney Opera House

Which historical figure's horse was named Bucephalus?

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Julius Caesar

Alexander the Great

Caligula

Duke of Wellington

Ada Lovelace, regarded by some as the first ever computer programmer, was the daughter of which poet?

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Byron

Keats

Shelley

Wordsworth

Privé is the haute couture line of which fashion house?

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Dior

Armani

Givenchy

Prada

Originating in the southern United States, what is the primary ingredient of 'grits'?

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Corn

Barley

Wheat

Rice

There are about 6,000 languages spoken in the world. About 1,000 of them are spoken on which single island?

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Madagascar

Borneo

New Guinea

Sumatra

Phlebotomists are people trained to do what?

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Take blood pressure

Test hearing

Administer vaccines

Draw blood

CH4 is the chemical formula for which gas?

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Methane

Acetylene

Butane

Ammonia

In standard packs of playing cards, what object is each of the four queens typically holding in her hand?

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Cup

Sceptre

Flower

Sword

Port Jackson, one of the largest natural harbours in the world, is found at which city?

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Hong Kong

Vancouver

San Francisco

Sydney

Which mountain, the highest in Canada, shares its name with a Eurovision song contest winning singer?

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Mount Quinn

Mount Logan

Mount Martin

Mount Kavanagh

Answer all the questions to see your result!

You scored out of !

Top Dog!

Spot on

You scored out of !

Clever cat

Almost purrfect

You scored out of !

Fintastic

Flippin' good

You scored out of !

What ewe you doing?

Baaaaad!

You scored out of !

Turtley awful

A shell of a bad effort

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Quiz: Are you smarter than Ireland's top quizzers?

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