Interactive Quiz - Spreading the Words

1. Newgrange is aligned to the rising sun on

Winter Solstice

Summer Solstice

Spring Equinox

2. The movement of the moon was of interest to the early Church because

this was used to calculate the date of Easter

this was used to determine times of prayer

this was used to facilitate the first moon-landing

3. What was the original language of the astronomical text translated into Irish in the fourteenth or fifteenth century?

Latin

Arabic

Greek

4. A thousand years ago the Irish term for ‘a comet’ was

rímaire

grianchrios

rétlu mongach

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