Scottish Quiz 1

1 What is ‘The Royal Mile’?

2 How long is a Scots mile?

3 What is a ‘Munro’?

4 Who were Burke and Hare?

5 What is the meaning of Holyrood?

6 Of what county is Dumbarton the county town?

7 What is the Great Cumbrae?

8 How many players are there in a shinty team?

9 What great Scottish disaster occurred in 1879?

10 ‘I’ll meet you at the Shell.’ Where is that?

11 Can you list the Scottish universities in order of age?

12 Here are a number of place-names associated with particular foods. The list of foods opposite them has been jumbled. Can you set the correct food after each place-name:
A Forfar cheese
B Loch Fyne cake
c Edinburgh bannock
D Dundee smokjes (smoked haddock)
E Selkirk kippers (or herring)
F Arbroath rock
G Dunlop bridies

13 Where would you find a cairn erected to the memory of John Cobb?

14 What are the ingredients of a haggis?

15 Where is ‘doon the watter’?

16 From what historical event did the town of Portobello derive its name?

17 What is a clachan?

18 Which Scottish university has an annual historical procession called the ‘Kate Kennedy Procession’?

19 What is a ‘salmon ladder’?

20 Which saint’s symbol is used on the flag of Scotland?

21 Which is the patron saint of Glasgow?

22 2 doits = 1 bodle, 2 bodles = 1 plack, 40 placks = 1 merk What is being reckoned in this table?

23 In what Scottish village is Pontius Pilate reputed to have been born?

24 What is the oldest building in Edinburgh?

25 Where would you find: A Devil’s Point and Angel’s Peak? B Hell and the Elysian Fields?

26 Why is Scotland Yard so called?

27 What is Mons Meg?

28 How does John 0’ Groats get its name?

29 Where is the Kitchener Memorial Tower?

30 Who owns the foreshore in Scotland?

31 Which is the oldest tree in Scotland?

32 What and where are the Elgin marbles?

33 How many lakes are there in Scotland?

34 Who was ‘The Scottish Hogarth’?

35 Who wrote a piece of music known as Fingal’s Cave?

36 When was the Forth Bridge opened?

37 What is the national emblem of Scotland?

38 Who is Auld Hornie?

39 How large is a Scots pint?

40 Where did President Eisenhower of the United States have a residence in Scotland?

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