How much do you know about St. Patrick's Day?

It's the day where we wear green and where the local Irish pub puts up leprechaun and

shamrock decorations, and everyone has a loud party drinking green beer.

But all of that has little or nothing to do with the actual holiday itself, the day of

St. Patrick's Feast.

Today, we're going to find out exactly how much you do or don't know.

That's coming up right now, Monskeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Pop Quiz, St. Patrick's Day.

Today we have for you another of Skeptoids dreaded and infamous Pop Quizzes.

It's not strictly just for fun, and it's not just because it's St. Patrick's Day and

we needed a theme.

It's really to test how consistently you apply Skepticism in your life.

Today we're going to see if you are one who has credulously accepted everything you've

ever heard about St. Patrick's Day, or if you put everything through the filter of Skepticism.

Of course you may be one who knows almost nothing about St. Patrick's Day other than

you're supposed to wear green and will likely go out for beer after work.

And if that's you, then today you can learn much of the truth behind the holiday.

And stump your friends and get them to buy that beer for you.

Before we get to today's true or false quiz questions, I want to give a very abbreviated

history of St. Patrick's Day.

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