Echoes of the Millennium: The Irish Echo’s Millennium Quiz Answers

1900 Oscar Wilde; 1901 London; 1902 Boer War; 1903 James Connolly; 1904 "Ulysses"; 1905: Sinn Fein; 1906 Samuel Beckett; 1907 J.M. Synge; 1908 Modern Art; 1909 Jim Larkin; 1910 Edward Carson; 1911 Charles Stuart Parnell; 1912 The sinking of the Titanic; 1913 Countess Markievicz; 1914 Howth; 1915 Patrick Pearse; 1916 Margaret Higgins Sanger; 1917 Thomas Ashe; 1918 Al Smith; 1919 Dail Eireann; 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald; 1921 The Customs House; 1922 Michael Collins; 1923 W.B. Yeats; 1924 Eamon de Valera; 1925 Fermanagh; 1926 Sean O’Casey; 1927 Kevin O’Higgins; 1928 Pat O’Callaghan; 1929 John Devoy; 1930 John McCormack; 1931 James Cagney; 1932 Lady Gregory; 1933 Great Blasket Island; 1934 "Man of Aran"; 1935 Fine Gael; 1936 Fr. Charles Coughlin; 1937 Maureen O’Sullivan; 1938 Aviator Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan; 1939 The Emergency; 1940 Charles de Gaulle; 1941 James Joyce; 1942 Sullivan; 1943 Roscommon; 1944 "Going My Way"; 1945 Van Morrison; 1946 William Joyce/Lord Haw-Haw; 1947 Maureen O’Hara; 1948 That Ireland would become a Republic and in doing so leave the Commonwealth; 1949 William O’ Dwyer; 1950 George Bernard Shaw; 1951 Tipperary; 1952 Grace Kelly; 1953 Oriental; 1954 Joseph McCarthy; 1955 Brendan Behan; 1956 John F. Kennedy; 1957 Eugene O’Neill; 1958 Liam Whelan; 1959 Alfred Hitchcock; 1960 Bono; 1961 Telefis Eireann, later known as RTE; 1962 The Dubliners; 1963 Mary McCarthy; 1964 Robert Kennedy; 1965 Roger Casement; 1966 Sinead O’Connor; 1967 Patrick Kavanagh; 1968 Eugene McCarthy; 1969 Bernadette Devlin; 1970 Gerry Fitt; 1971 Sean Lemass; 1972 Belfast; 1973 European Economic Community, now the EU; 1974 Liam Brady; 1975 Miami; 1976 Long Kesh/The Maze; 1977 Jack Lynch; 1978 Micheal Mac Liammor; 1979 Christy Ring; 1980 John Lennon; 1981 James Brady; 1982 Charles Haughey; 1983 Eamon Coghlan; 1984 Luke Kelly; 1985 Barry McGuigan; 1986 Noel Browne; 1987 Stephen Roche; 1988 Its millennium; 1989 Brenda Fricker; 1990 Packie Bonner; 1991 Albert Reynolds; 1992 Boxing (welterweight); 1993 Roddy Doyle; 1994 William Trevor; 1995 M’ve Binchy; 1996 Dublin; 1997 Mary Robinson; 1998 John Hume and David Trimble; 1999 Tony Cascarino.