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Reeling In The Years

Quiz: How well do you remember 2007?

A lot has changed in the past 10 years.
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IT MAY ONLY be 10 years ago, but a lot has changed in the world since 2007.

Twitter and Facebook were in their infancy.

The recession hadn’t happened yet.

Donald Trump hadn’t happened yet.

After testing your knowledge of 1987, and 1997, we thought we’d go at it again.

Best of luck…

Who was the leader of the Labour Party on 1 January 2007?
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Eamon Gilmore
Pat Rabbitte

Joan Burton
Emmet Stagg
Who won the All Ireland Senior Men's Football Championship?
Kerry
Cork

Dublin
Tyrone
Which one of these bands headlined that year's Oxegen festival?
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Kings of Leon

The Killers
Snow Patrol
What was the highest grossing film of this year?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spider-Man 3

The Simpsons Movie
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Ireland played England in a famous rugby game at Croke Park, but who scored the first try of the game?
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Shane Horgan
Brian O'Driscoll

Girvan Dempsey
Geordan Murphy
Which of these shows did NOT debut in 2007?
Tonight with Vincent Browne
Exposé

Celebrity Bainisteoir
Who did we send to the Eurovision in 2007?
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Brian Kennedy
Dustin the Turkey

Donna and Joe McCaul
Dervish
Which of these 90s band reunited for a tour in 2007?
Take That
Spice Girls

East 17
NSYNC
The last Harry Potter book came out, but how many copies did it shift on its first day on sale in the US?
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4.6 million
8.3 million

12.1 million
15.4 million
What happened in 2007 first?
Madeleine McCann's disappearance
The Virginia Tech massacre

The first Apple iPhone went on sale
Northern Rock bank collapse
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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Pawsitively perfect
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Clever Cat
Almost purrfect
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Fintastic
Flippin' good
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What are ewe doing!?
Baaaaaaaaddd
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Turtley awful
Shell of a bad effort
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