Do you know who St Patrick was? Saint Patrick was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. The foremost patron saint of Ireland was born in Roman Britain in the fourth century into a wealthy Romano-British family.
Saint Patrick’s Day, also called the Feast of Saint Patrick, is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick. If you are curious to know much more about this day, this article is for you. Are you ready to learn some history about Saint Patrick’s Day?
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St.Patrick’s Day trivia
1) When is the cultural and religious celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day held?
Answer: On 17 March
2) In which century Saint Patrick’s Day was made an official Christian feast day?
Answer: In the early 17th century
3) What is another name for Saint Patrick’s Day?
Answer: Feast of Saint Patrick
4) Why the Irish and many other countries in the world celebrate this day?
Answer: The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general.
5) What type of celebrations generally involve in this day?
Answer: Public parades and festivals and the wearing of green attire or shamrocks.
6) What the Christians do who belong to liturgical denominations?
Answer: They attend church services.
7) Where does this day take as a public holiday?
Answer: In the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Montserrat.
8) In which countries is this day widely celebrated?
Answer: United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand, especially amongst Irish diasporas.
9) According to legend, what was Saint Patrick used to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish pagans?
Answer: The three-leaved shamrock.
10) Which custom of Saint Patrick’s Day was historically popular?
Answer: The custom of “drowning the shamrock” or “wetting the shamrock”.
11) Which plant St. Patrick used as a visual guide when explaining the Holy Trinity?
Answer: Shamrock plant
12) Where did the first St. Patrick’s Day Parade hold?
Answer: In America
13) What is the original color of St. Patrick’s Day?
Answer: Blue
14) Which beverages are widely consumed on St. Patrick’s Day?
Answer: Beer
15) What does each leaf of the clover mean?
Answer: Hope, Faith, Love and Luck.
16) Which year marked the first time Chicago dyed their river green for St Patrick’s Day?
Answer: In 1962
17) Which drink is one of the most popular drinks on St. Patrick’s Day?
Answer: Guinness
18) What is Saint Patrick’s nickname?
Answer: The nickname for Patrick is always Paddy and not Patty.
19) What did the Irish prime minister, present to the U.S. president?
Answer: A crystal bowl of live shamrocks as a symbol of the close ties between the two countries.
20) Which country has Shamrocks as the national flower/emblem?
Answer: Ireland
One of the costumes of this festival is at the end of the celebrations, a shamrock is put into the bottom of a cup, which is then filled with whiskey, beer, or cider. It is then drunk as a toast to Saint Patrick, Ireland, or those present. The shamrock would either be swallowed with the drink or taken out and tossed over the shoulder for good luck.
St.Patrick’s Day trivia names
21) Which city’s name translates from Irish Gaelic into English as ‘dark pool’?
Answer: Dublin
22) A type of woolly jumper was given their names by which Irish islands?
Answer: Aran Isles.
23) Where the Belfast Lough and River Lagan meet, which city stands?
Answer: Belfast
24) What is another name for Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge?
Answer: The Liffey Bridge
25) What is the Gaelic name for the Fairy Folk’s eternal home?
Answer: Tir na Nog.
26) Which Irish saint is said to have visited America 1000 years before Columbus?
Answer: Saint Brendan.
27) Which meat did an Irish stew traditionally contain, before the lamb was used?
Answer: Goat
28) What is Kissing the Blarney Stone is believed to confer?
Answer: The gift of the gab
29) Which saint is supposed to have brought Christianity to Ireland in 453 AD?
Answer: St Patrick
30) What did St Patrick supposedly chase out of Ireland?
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