St. Patrick's Day Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. What is an informal term for St. Patrick's Day? (from the shortened form of the original Irish spelling of Patrick, which is Pádraig.)
   “St. Paddy's Day”
2. Each year on St. Patrick's Day, the town of New London, WI, changes its name—including on street signs and everything—to _____.
   New Dublin
3. The "snakes" St. Patrick got rid of actually represented what?
   evil & paganism
4. Where do they dye the river green for St. Patrick's Day every year?
   
5. What is an Irish potato cake?
   a boxty
6. Where was St. Patrick born?
   Britain
7. This meal isn't really a traditional Irish dish but was started by Irish American immigrants
   
8. Who died on March 17th, 461 AD?
   
9. What city in Georgia has had a huge St. Patrick’s Day parade & celebration since 1813?
   Savannah
10. What did St. Patrick use to symbolize the Trinity of God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit?
    
11. The first _____ in Ireland wasn't held until 1903, in Waterford.
    St. Patrick's Day Parade
12. What made 1/4 of the Irish nation leave their homeland and come to America starting in 1845?
    potato famine
13. A Saint Patrick's Day Christian procession in _____, where Saint Patrick is said to be buried
    Downpatrick
14. What color was 1st associated with St. Patrick's Day?
    
15. The tradition of pinching people came from the belief that wearing _____ makes you invisible to leprechauns & if leprechauns see you, they pinch you.
    
16. In 1607, where was the first-known St. Patrick's Day parade? (a Spanish colony but had an Irish vicar)
    St. Augustine, Florida
17. Ireland is the only country to have a musical instrument as its national symbol - the Celtic harp.
    
18. According to Irish folklore, what will you find at the end of a rainbow?
    a pot of gold
19. How long did St. Patrick travel around Ireland baptizing people and establishing monasteries, schools, and churches.
    20 years
20. About how many Americans claim to have some Irish ancestry?
    31 1/2 million
21. What was St. Patrick's real name?
    Maewyn Succat
22. When St. Patrick returned to Britain what did he become?
    a priest
23. Eventually St. Patrick returned to _____ to tell the people about God.
    Ireland
24. Did St. Patrick drive real snakes out of Ireland?
    no
25. St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in America because of so many _____
    Irish American immigrants
26. When St. Patrick was just 16 years old he was captured and taken to Ireland as a _____.
    slave
27. According to folklore, what is a leprechaun’s occupation?
    shoemaker
28. The Declaration, written by Patrick, says that God told him to flee to the coast, where a _____ would be waiting to take him home.
    
29. What job did St. Patrick have the 1st time he was in Ireland?
    
30. What are the colors of the Irish flag?
    
31. St. Patrick’s Day was originally meant to celebrate Saint Patrick for introducing _____ to Ireland in the fifth century
    
32. Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish of buttery _____ with green cabbage.
    mashed potatoes
33. What North American waterway did the Irish immigrants help build?
    
34. What does “Erin go bragh” mean?
    Ireland Forever