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