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Irish Echo Quiz

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

Questions

1. Is steak tartare meat served raw, medium rare or well done?

2. Haiphong is a major port city in which country?

3. Lew Wallace is famous for being author of which popular novel set in ancient Rome?

4. The invention of which musical instrument is credited to a Belgian named Adolphe Sax?

5. Who won a best director Oscar for the 1946 movie "The Best Years of Our Lives"?

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6. Is a tanager a kind of fish, bird or mammal?

7. The Irish town of Athlone is situated just south of which Shannon River lake?

8. Sericulture is the term for the production of what?

9. Monophobia is the fear of what?

10. Maria Bueno is famous for success in which sport?

Quiz Answers

1. Raw; 2. Vietnam; 3. Ben Hur; 4. The Saxophone; 5. William Wyler; 6. Bird; 7. Lough Ree; 8. Silk; 9. Solitude; 10. Tennis.

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