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QUIZ: How well do you remember the '90s?

Test your knowledge.

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YOUR RE-RUNS OF Friends won’t help you here….

This is all about Ireland in the 1990s.

Which of these people did NOT contest the 1990 Presidential Election?
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Mary Robinson
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Austin Currie

Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Brian Lenihan
Photocall Ireland
Proinsias De Rossa
Where did Toto Schillaci break Irish hearts on 30 June 1990?
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The San Siro
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Stadio Olimpico

Stadio San Nicola
Stadio San Paolo
What year was Transition Year introduced as an extra, optional year in Secondary Schools?
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1994
1993

1995
1991
Roddy Doyle won the Booker Prize in 1993... But for what book?
The Woman Who Walked into Doors
The Van

paddy clarke ha ha ha
The Snapper
During the 1990s, how many leaders of Fine Gael were there?
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3
2

1
4
Which new television station launched in October 1996?
Oireachtas TV
TV3

TnaG
Network 2 became RTE 2
What did the 15th Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland do?
Allowed politicians to claim more expenses
Allowed women to travel for abortions

Allowed Ireland to sign the Good Friday Agreement
Repealed the constitutional prohibition of divorce
What is the name of this village?
Ballykissangel
Avoca

Ballykissane
Kilcoole
What year did Gay Byrne interview Annie Murphy, the mother of Bishop Eamon Casey's son, on the Late Late Show?
1992
1993

1990
1991
In 1998, the All-Ireland Hurling semi-final had to be replayed because it was blown up two minutes early. Who was the referee in charge?
John Cooney
Jimmy Kearney

Jimmy Cooney
John Carney
What year was homosexuality decriminalised in Ireland?
GLEN
1997
1994

1990
1993
Westlife had their first number 1 in 1999. What was the name of the song?
Swear it Again
Flying Without Wings

Fool Again
When You're Looking Like That
When did Bill Clinton receive the Freedom of Dublin?
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November 1995
August 1995

December 1995
January 1996
What year did this meeting between Mary Robinson and Queen Elizabeth II take place?
1993
1996

1994
1990
True or False: The PSNI was established during the 1990s?
True
False
Answer all the questions to see your result!
You scored out of !
You're Anne Doyle!
Knowing everything about the 1990s is LITERALLY your job.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You're Gay Byrne!
You know a thing or two but still manage to get the odd thing very wrong.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You're Jack Charlton!
Almost infallible, if it wasn't for that Italian fella.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You're Zig & Zag!
You're cleverer than people give you credit for.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You're Jason McAteer!
Not the brightest spark of the 1990s. But we all still love you.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You're an Inflatable Tri-Colour Hammer!
You obviously were born after Italia '90.
Share your result:

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:43 PM

    Jason McAteer lol

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    Mute Tony O Connor
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    Jan 4th 2015, 12:38 AM

    Me too!

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    Jan 4th 2015, 12:42 AM

    Me too 3/15 & I loved the 90′s! Prob spent most of it pissed tho!

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    Jan 4th 2015, 11:38 AM

    Haha me too

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:37 PM

    I still think of the 90,s as been 10 years ago! Mad how quick time goes.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:48 PM

    Have to disagree about the year transistion was introduced. I did it in 1994 and we were definitely not the 1st year to do it

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:57 PM

    Maybe they mean in all schools. Not sure. But I did Transition Year in 1992/3.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 10:23 PM

    Absolutely, I did it the same year but it wasn’t the first year our school offered it.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 10:50 PM

    I did the leaving in ’92 and definitely no transition year offered in my school.

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    Jan 4th 2015, 12:49 AM

    Yep, I started 5th year in 91 and a friend of mine did transition year instead, that was the first year it was offered in my school. Maybe it didn’t go nationwide until 94?

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    Jan 4th 2015, 4:13 AM

    my bro did his leaving in 1995 & I Did junior cert but he just had a normal 4th year where they had 3 years instead of 2 to study for the LC.. I remember my neighbour was the first to do it in sept.94 until June 95 in our school but maybe some schools took part in it before that…

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:36 PM

    I started well then it all went to hell……..

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    Jan 4th 2015, 12:39 AM

    Just like Jason!

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:46 PM

    My wife did her leaving cert in 1993 and had done tradition year 2yrs previously yo that so how was transition year only introduced in 1994????

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 10:52 PM

    Maybe offered by a particular school but not rolled out nationally? Was it 4th yr – slightly different compared to transition yr?

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    Jan 4th 2015, 4:11 AM

    I did my junior cert in 1995 & I remember my neighbour was 1 year ahead & was first to do Transition in 1994/june1995… was the biggest waste of time as we did feck all for ours but I hear that it has improved dramatically now from ppl I know have kids doing it

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:49 PM

    Do people love Jason McAteer???!!!

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 10:46 PM

    I got Jason too, 2 out of 15.
    Must be a nineties calculator.

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    Jan 4th 2015, 12:00 AM

    It’s the Casio watch calculator, little Jim!

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 10:20 PM

    To many ‘what year’ questions.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 9:03 PM

    ’94 transition year? Earlier.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 11:56 PM

    Was it not 89 when it started first meaning the exams weren’t until 1992 and then leaving in 1994? I could be wrong?

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    Jan 4th 2015, 11:50 AM

    We had it in our school in 88, the girls used to run a shop- Mars bars 10p. That’s about the only useful thing they did all year

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    Jan 4th 2015, 12:59 PM

    I was the last doing the inter-cert and I started in 1988, so those who started in 1989 would have done the new system. I do not know why they changed it?

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    Jan 4th 2015, 1:34 AM

    Ballykissangel – cruel trick question!

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:45 PM

    9/15 I’m zig and zag

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 9:36 PM

    I’m gay Byrne. I was pat Kenny on the noughties quiz. Meh.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 11:59 PM

    So, you’ll be Tubs in the 2010s quiz… Shudder!!!

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:40 PM

    I’m jack Charlton but with a better comb over

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 8:38 PM

    aka Trigger !

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 11:18 PM

    Only 90′s kids will remember this.

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 10:38 PM

    13 out of 15 – glad to see my memory is still with me – that’s all I want in my later years !

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    Jan 3rd 2015, 10:34 PM

    Ahaha Jason mc ateer. The spice boy lol

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    Jan 4th 2015, 2:58 AM

    I’m Jason McAteer. Only for I remembered JimmyCooney I would have been Karl Pilkington

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    Jan 4th 2015, 8:18 AM

    Transition year was in my school from much earlier than 94. I didn’t get to do it but most of my year went straight from intercert in 1990 to transition and it had been around , as well as the VTOS option for a few years before. By 94 I was half way through college so dunno about that one

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