Ireland

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Memorize these and recognize 45.6% of all Ireland clues.

1 Dublin 8x

2 Guinness 7x

3 Waterford 5x

4 Limerick 5x

5 Ulster 4x

6 the Blarney Stone 4x

7 Jonathan Swift 4x

8 Tipperary 3x

9 St. Patrick 3x

10 peat 3x

11 Gaelic 3x

12 Cork 3x

13 Bob Geldof 3x

14 Wellington 2x

15 Victor Herbert 2x

16 the shamrock 2x

17 the potato famine 2x

18 Sinead O'Connor 2x

19 Richard Harris 2x

20 George Bernard Shaw 2x

21 Duke of Wellington 2x

22 Bono 2x

23 Blarney 2x

24 Aer Lingus 2x

25 William Butler Yeats 2x

26 the Vikings 2x

27 the Irish Sweepstakes 2x

28 Ronald Reagan 2x

29 James Joyce 2x

30 Gabriel Byrne 2x

Sample Clues

Also called Trinity College, the university of this capital was founded in 1592

Dublin

The record says in 1759 he opened his brewery at St. James Gate

Guinness

Archaeologists in Cork found Viking artifacts that threaten to shatter this city's "oldest in Ireland" status like its crystal

Waterford

Style of poetry named for Irish city and popularized by Edward Lear

Limerick

Only three of the nine counties of this province belong to the Republic of Ireland

Ulster

Sub-Areas

Europe 122

Dublin (8) Guinness (5) Gaelic (3) St. Patrick (3) Limerick (3) Cork (3) Duke of Wellington (2) Richard Harris (2) Tipperary (2) Waterford (2)

Other 56

Waterford (3) the Blarney Stone (3) Swift (2) Victor Herbert (2) Bob Geldof (2) Blarney (2) peat (2) Ulster (2) Ronald Reagan (2) Arthur Guinness (2)

Africa 1

Bono (1)

Middle East 1

Sinead O'Connor (1)