The Big Irish Quiz 2020

ExoticHotNurse | 19:30 Sat 14th Mar 2020 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Really stuck on these....still another 30 questions to go but any help is appreciated, Thanking You!!!

"Identify these popular yet depressing Irish pub singalong songs from a brief synopsis of their lyrics."

1. We met in our mid-teens. At the time, I anticipated having a happy life. Despite the fact that things have not panned out that way, and we’ve grown apart from one another, I remain just as enamoured of you today *

a-The Spanish Lady
b-She Moves Through the Fair
c-Fairytale of New York
d-When You Were Sweet Sixteen

2. On a volatile patch of marshy land, a tree grows in a hole. This tree has a branch, which in turn has a limb, which in turn has a nest, which in turn . . . Well, how much time have you got? *
e-The Rare Old Mountain Dew

f-The Rattlin’ Bog
g-Hold Me Now
h-What’s Another Year?

3. I grew up in this nation’s capital. Every night, my father would return home inebriated and verbally abuse our neighbours, whom he accused of being members of a notorious reserve police constabulary

i-I’ll Tell Me Ma
j-The Men Behind the Wire
k-Come Out Ye Black and Tans
l-Dirty Old Town

4. While horse-riding on a religious holiday, I encountered a column of marching soldiers. A rebellion had broken out in Dublin, and I reflected that it was better for Irishmen to lose their lives fighting a war here than fighting one on foreign soil. Later, when I returned that same way, the rebellion had been suppressed and I prayed for the souls of its executed leaders *

m-Come Out Ye Black and Tans
n-The Foggy Dew
o-Rocky Road to Dublin
p-Arthur McBride

5. My lover has dark hair and fragrant skin, a winning smile and a gentle manner. I long for us to be together. At the banks of a Scottish river, I become inexplicably sad. Ditto when I write a letter to my beloved *

q-Grace
r-When You Were Sweet Sixteen
s-Black Is the Colour
t-She Moves Through the Fair

6. I sing in praise of a beverage produced in the west of Ireland. The illegal distillery that brews it can be detected by the distinctive odour it emits. The beverage in question has been praised by scholars of all religious faiths and none *

u-The Rare Old Mountain Dew
v-The Rattlin’ Bog
w-Seven Drunken Nights
x-The Irish Rover

7. While our English leader ponders his tactics for our upcoming campaign, we declare our loyalty to him and signal our intention to travel to the Apennine Peninsula. We predict that our victory there will send shockwaves around the world. Then we break into a Spanish-language chant *

y-On Carrigdhoun
z-Put ’Em under Pressure
a-The Green Fields of France
b-A Song for Ireland

8. I pine for a town in Co Antrim and for the nightlife in another town that, according to Google Maps at least, appears not to exist. I would go to great lengths to be in the former town. But I have a drinking problem, all my friends are dead and I’m probably going to die soon myself. So we’ll put that trip in the Maybe pile *

c-Dirty Old Town
d-Carrickfergus
e-Danny Boy
f-Black Is the Colour

9. After taking well-deserved potshots at a British chief secretary for Ireland, an Irish regiment in the British army and an Irish revolutionary who later turned informer, I exhort my friends to get their kicks in what was then the largest red-light district in Europe *

g-Take Her up to Monto
h-Dirty Old Town
i-Rocky Road to Dublin
j-Seven Drunken Nights

10. My lover insists her family approve of our relationship and anticipates our imminent nuptials. I watch her perambulate through the marketplace. Later, my now deceased lover appears to me as a ghost. Again, she anticipates our imminent nuptials *

k-The Spanish Lady
l-Black Is the Colour
m-When You Were Sweet Sixteen
n-She Moves Through the Fair

English Actress 4 And 6.

Cant See The Wood For The Trees

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1 When You Were Sweet Sixteen

When first I saw the love-light in your eyes
I dreamed the world held naught but joy for me
And even though we drifted far apart
I never dream but what I dream of thee
I love you as I never loved before
Since first I met you on the village green
Come to me or my dream of love is o'er
I love you as I loved you, when you were sweet
When you were sweet sixteen
I love you as I loved you, when you were sweet
When you were sweet sixteen
(When you were sweet sixteen)