Weekly Quiz 28/11

The modern political party we now know as Sinn Féin, led by Mary Lou McDonald (above) and about to surpass Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil combined in popularity, started as which organisation?

Collins Dictionary has somehow named "NFT" its *word* of the year for 2021, despite it clearly being something else. Is it...?

Which globe-conquering popstar is set to headline the returning Forbidden Fruit music festival in Dublin next year in her Irish live debut (all going to plan)?

The GLOW Christmas market is back in Cork city - what's its annual big attraction, now among the icons of the winter cityscape for Corkonians?

A walking stick owned by the radio broadcaster known in the UK of the 1940s as 'Lord Haw-Haw' was announced as going up for auction on Friday last. What did he do to earn that sobriquet?

Change is afoot in Irish soccer, as two League of Ireland First Division (where's the Second?) teams are set to merge. Wicklow's Bray Wanderers are set to join up with which other squad?

Which technological advance this week finally had an online museum opened in its honour this week, collecting high-quality studies and biographies of thousands of devices released over nearly 40 years?

Virgin Media television yesterday played host to part one of The Battle of Christmas Lights, a two-part special about neighbours in a north Cork town duking it out in a series of seasonal challenges. But whereabouts in the wilds did this Christmassy competition take place?

Who is this unreasonably beautiful man, and what does he do?

Former drama critic and social commentator Fintan O'Toole's most recent book, a gigantic tome on the growing pains of modern Ireland, goes by what name?