Christmas Quiz

Today, we have naming of engines… the following are all clues to names carried by Irish engines, although some may not quite line up with the reasoning of those who bestowed the names. See how many you can get before you reach for your Irish Steam Loco Register. Answers can be found by scrolling to the bottom of the page.

1. Nocturnal flying mammal.
2. A class of battleship, which produced the political slogan”we want eight and we won’t wait!”
3. One of the archangels.
4. Possibly a musical percussion instrument.
5. King of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
6. Arthurian Wizard.
7. …the Whig view of history.
8. Large, aggressive freshwater fish.
9. Roman (not Greek) name for the goddess of war, poetry, medicine and wisdom.
10. Greek hero, who fell in love with his own reflection.
11. Patron saint of the diocese of Ossory.
12. Singer in Greek mythology, who descended into the underworld to try and bring his wife back after she had been bitten by venomous snakes.
13. Jacobite military leader in the Williamite wars.
14. Saint whose martyrdom included being barbecued to death.
15. Greek hero, whose most well known exploit  was slaying the minotaur and escaping from the labryinth.
16. The… Ascending, musical piece by Vaughan Williams.
17. Planet discovered by William Herschel in 1781.
18. Volcano, which last errupted in 1944.
19. Princess, and grandmother of the current King of Spain, who spent over 30 years in exile.
20. In Greek mythology, the archtypal woman, whose dowry contained many terrible plagues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

1. Bat (MGWR 0-6-0T No. 110)
2. Dreadnaught (WLWR 0-6-0 No.49)
3. Gabriel (SSR 4-4-0T No. 1)
4. Lambeg [drum] (GNR 0-6-0 No. 154)
5. Oberon (DWWR un-numbered 2-2-2WT of 1865)
6. Merlin (GNR 4-4-0 No. 85)
7. Progress (WLWR 0-6-0 No. 7)
8. Pike (Cork & Youghal Railway 2-4-0ST No. 5)
9. Minerva (GNR 4-4-0 No. 136)
10. Narcissus (GNR 4-4-0 No. 83)
11. St. Kiernan (DWWR 2-4-0T No. 45)
12. Orpheus (GNR 4-4-0 No. 157)
13. Sarsfield (WLWR 0-6-0 No. 24)
14. St. Lawrence (DWWR 2-4-0T No. 28)
15. Theseus (GNR 4-4-0 No. 114)
16. Lark (MGWR 0-6-0T No. 106)
17. Uranus (GNR 4-4-0 No. 131)
18. Vesuvius (GNR 0-6-0 No. 14)
19. Princess Ena (GSWR 4-4-0 No. 304)
20. Pandora (GNR 4-4-0 No. 156)