Answers to Scottish Quiz 1.
1. The streets leading from Holyrood Palace to Edinburgh Castle: Canongate, High Street, Lawnmarket, Castlehill, Castle Esplanade.
2 1,984 yards.
3. A mountain included in Munro’s Tables of the mountains of Scotland over 3,000 feet.
4 Resurrection
men or body snatchers in Edinburgh in the early nineteenth century
5. Holy Cross
6. Dunbartonshjre.
The town is spelt with an m, the county with an n.
7. An island in the Firth of Clyde between the Ayrshire coast and the Island
of Bute.
8 Twelve.
9 The Tay Bridge disaster.
10. The ‘dead’
shell erected as a collecting box after the First World War in Central Station,
Glasgow, and famous as a place of rendezvous
11. St. Andrews, 1411, Glasgow, 1451, Aberdeen, 1494, Edinburgh, 1582.
12 Forfar bridies, Loch Fyne kippers or herring, Edinburgh rock, Dundee cake, Selkirk bannock, Arbroath smokies, Dunlop cheese.
13 The shore of Loch Ness near the point at which he lost his life while attempting to break the world’s water speed record.
14 A sheep’s lights, liver and heart, beef suet, onions, oatmeal, the whole seasoned with salt and black pepper and cooked in a sheep’s stomach.
15. Down the Clyde, usually at one of the holiday resorts favoured by the citizens of Glasgow.
16 The capture of Portobello by Admiral Vernon in 1739.
17. A small village.
18. St. Andrews University.
19. A series of artificially stepped pools which enable salmon to by-pass a dam. There is a famous one at Pitlochry.
20. St. Andrew.
21. St. Kentigern, also called St. Mungo.
22. Old Scots coinage.
23. Fortingall, Perthshire.
24 St. Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle, circa 1090.
25. A In the Cairngorms B The Old Course, St. Andrews.
26. Old Scotland Yard occupied the site of an old palace belonging to the King of Scotland and the name was transferred to New Scotland Yard.
27. A famous old cannon in Edinburgh Castle.
28. A Dutchman, John de Groot, is said to have had a house there, octagonal in shape and with a door in each side, so that the eight branches of his family should not quarrel over precedence.
29. Orkney, off which Kitchener was drowned.
30. The Crown (except in Orkney and Shetland where some is privately owned).
31. The Fortingall Yew, Perthshire.
32. The collection of classical sculptures assembled by the seventh Earl of Elgin and now in the British Museum.
33. Two. The Lake of Mentieth and Press mennan Lake, East Lothian, the latter formed by damming.
34. David Allan, the artist.
35. Mendelssohn
36. 1890.
37. The thistle.
38. The Devil
39. About three pints imperial measure.
40. Culzean Castle, Ayrshire.
