8th May - Junior Cert - Round 2

Business Studies: What does GNP stand for?

• Generates Normal Profit

• Gross National Product

• Growing National Profit

• Guaranteed Non Productive

History: The 'Phoney War' was an eight month period at the beginning of which war?

• World War I

• World War II

• The Cold War

• Spanish Civil War

History: Identify this ancient cooking apparatus indicated by the blue arrow.

• Fulacht Fiadh

• Crannog

• Ráth

• Leacht

Home Economics: A serious deficiency in Thiamine (Vitamin B1) will leave you with which disease?

• Scurvy

• Rickets

• Beriberi

• Pellegra

English: What was the name of the Friar in Romeo and Juliet?

• Benvolio

• Lawrence

• Balthasar

• Tybalt

Art: Single Sailboat by Claude Monet (pictured) is an example of which style of painting?

• Impressionism

• Pointillism

• Photorealism

• Expressionism

Science: What is potassium known as on the periodic table of elements?

• Na

• Pt

• K

• Br

Science: Which of the gasses in Table 1 is a noble gas?

• Carbon dioxide

• Nitrogen

• Argon

• Oxygen

Woodwork: Identify this tool.

• Bevel

• Mitre

• Slide Guage

• Plane

Geography: What type of rock is basalt?

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Conglomerate