{"id":612368,"date":"2026-09-02T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612368\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:28:17","slug":"quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-siobhan-mcsweeney-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612368\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: How much do you know about Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE TRAITORS IRELAND is back, and so is its fab host Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney. The Corkonian and longtime actor is the perfect person to lead the contestants through the game \u2013 she\u2019s able to entertain them, but also scare the bejaysus out of them too.<\/p>\n

You might be familiar with her work on shows like Derry Girls and Holding, but how much do you really know about Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney?<\/p>\n

Put your knowledge to the test in this week\u2019s Best of the Box quiz.<\/p>\n

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\n In what part of Cork was Siobh\u00e1n born?\n <\/p>\n

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\n What did she do a degree in before she studied acting?\n <\/p>\n

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\n In which 2006 Irish film did she get her first role?\n <\/p>\n

\n The Wind That Shakes The Barley\n <\/p>\n

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\n What was the FULL name of her Derry Girls character?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Which of these lines did Sister Michael NOT say?\n <\/p>\n

\n ‘…I despise the French’\n <\/p>\n

\n ‘Of course, God doesn\u2019t hate you. I\u2019d say he\u2019d be ambivalent towards you, at best, Clare.’\n <\/p>\n

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\n ‘Part of the reason why I became a nun: free wine.’\n <\/p>\n


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\n Which of these soaps did Siobh\u00e1n once star in an episode of?\n <\/p>\n

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\n What sort of Battenburg did she bake on the Great British Bake Off?\n <\/p>\n

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\n What role did she recently play in The Playboy of the Western World?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Which famous director saw Derry Girls and said ‘I love the nun!’ about Siobh\u00e1n’s character?\n <\/p>\n

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\n Which pop star did McSweeney once say was ‘overrated’ and people needed to ‘calm down’ about?\n <\/p>\n

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Answer all the questions to see your result!<\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Top fan\n <\/p>\n

\n You know just about everything there is to know about Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney\n <\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Almost there\n <\/p>\n

\n You know a lot about Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney – but not everything\n <\/p>\n

\n You scored out of !\n <\/p>\n

\n Third place\n <\/p>\n

\n Back to Wikipedia for you!\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE TRAITORS IRELAND is back, and so is its fab host Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney. The Corkonian and longtime actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[163478,93,61,60,5165],"class_list":["post-612368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-best-of-the-box","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}