Seamus Heaney Quiz

Seamus Heaney Quiz Questions

Picture of the Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney at the University College Dublin, February 11, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

(Some sources mention Bellaghy or Castledawson as Seamus Heaney’s place of birth.)

1. When did Seamus Heaney get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1995
b) 1992
c) 1986
d) 1998

2. When was Seamus Heaney born?
a) 3 February 1944
b) 13 April 1939
c) 14 August 1937
d) 30 December 1945

3. Where was Seamus Heaney born?
a) Kent
b) Essex
c) Sussex
d) Mossbawn

Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

4. Which university did Seamus Heaney attend?
a) Cambridge
b) Princeton
c) Queen’s
d) Yale

5. Which theatre company did Seamus Heaney join?
a) Field Day Theatre Company
b) Globe Theatre
c) Royal National Theatre
d) Royal Shakespeare Company

Seamus Heaney Collected Poems (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

6. When did Seamus Heaney publish Death of a Naturalist?
a) 1954
b) 1966
c) 1957
d) 1952

7. From which book of Seamus Heaney did American President William Jefferson Clinton read at a state banquet?
a) Station Island
b) Door into the Dark
c) Field Work
d) The Cure at Troy

8. Which of the following prizes did Seamus Heaney win in 2006?
a) Booker Prize
b) Pulitzer Prize
c) T. S. Eliot Prize
d) Betty Trask Prize

9. When did Seamus Heaney die?
a) 28 January 2009
b) 10 June 2008
c) 30 August 2013
d) 12 November 2005

10. Where did Seamus Heaney die?
a) Dublin
b) Paris
c) Oxford
d) Belfast

Seamus Heaney Quiz Questions and Answers

The poet Seamus Heaney, taken when he visited Uppingham School in 1970. Taken outside the Old Manor House (Thring Centre). off High St West. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1. When did Seamus Heaney get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1995

2. When was Seamus Heaney born?
b) 13 April 1939

3. Where was Seamus Heaney born?
d) Mossbawn

4. Which university did Seamus Heaney attend?
c) Queen’s

5. Which theatre company did Seamus Heaney join?
a) Field Day Theatre Company

6. When did Seamus Heaney publish Death of a Naturalist?
b) 1966

7. From which book of Seamus Heaney did American President William Jefferson Clinton read at a state banquet?
d) The Cure at Troy

8. Which of the following prizes did Seamus Heaney win in 2006?
c) T. S. Eliot Prize

9. When did Seamus Heaney die?
a) 28 January 2009

10. Where did Seamus Heaney die?
a) Dublin

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