IE Sunday Quiz 27/3

The Academy Awards, otherwise known as the Oscars, happen Sunday night at 1am Irish time - which Irish city is the namesake and setting of one of the Best Picture nominees?

Which English Premiership soccer team is currently the subject of a bidding war, following its placement for sale by former owner Roman Abramovich?

IT Sligo, GMIT, and LYIT are the latest Institutes of Technology to come together under one banner - but what is the new third-level institute called?

American computer programmer Stephen Wilhite passed away this week after a battle with Covid-19. He was renowned for creating which short-video file format?

Dublin band Pillow Queens have been busy as of late, in the run up to their second album, including a live performance on which US talk show?

Birkenstock are a fashion house best known for comfy shoes - which makes their upcoming collaboration with which high-fashion house even more of a surprise?

Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin has been appointed by Taoiseach Micheál Martin to oversee the upcoming citizens' assembly on biodiversity loss. On 2000s RTÉ comedy show was she a regular panellist?

Furze Island, off the coast of Cork, is a home to which kind of seafaring mammal?

One of the country's leading hurley manufacturers, Canning Hurleys, announced it would cease trading this week, after a decline in stock of which wood?

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles visited which Irish city this past week, as part of their sixth joint trip to the Republic of Ireland?