Scottish Quiz 2

1 What is Rory Mor’s Drinking Horn?

2 Where is Rob Roy’s grave?

3 With what art are the MacCrimmons associated?

4 What is a fiery cross?

5 Which is the nameless clan?

6 What is a kelpie?

7 Where is the festival of Up-Helly-Aa celebrated and what does it mark?

8 What are trows?

9 Can you name a Lerwick schoolmaster who emigrated and became the premier of New Zealand?

10 What is the Brooch of Lorne and where is it to be found today?

11 For what island are two missionaries said to have raced, what were their names and by what trick did the winner gain his victory?

12 Which Hebridean island is so flat as to have earned the name An Rioghachd Barr fo Thuinn, The Kingdom whose Summits lie beneath the Waves?

13 Which is Pig Island?

14 On what island would you find Compass Hill and how does it get its name?

15 In what cave were almost four hundred of the inhabitants of Eigg suffocated and by whom?

16 What is the Faery Flag of the McLeods and what power is attributed to it?

17 What is Rory Mor’s nurse?

18 Who was Donald of Islay?

19 What is a banshee?

20 Which Shetlander was called before the King of Norway for killing his tax collector and won his own life by capturing a bear?

21 Why was it the King of Norway before whom he was called?

22 Why is a horseshoe sometimes put in an infant’s cradle?

23 Where would you find the Reliquary of St. Columba and what was its purpose supposed to have been?

24 What remarkable local attraction brings many tourists to Inverewe?

25 Who was ‘The Glendale Martyr’?

26 What is a birlinn?

27 What is Cluny’s Cage and who was its most famous occupant?

28 Where would you find a Soldier’s Leap across the Tay?

29 What tradition is associated with the cup of St. Magnus?

30 Who was Duncan Bàn Macintyre?

31 What are ‘the merry dancers’?

32 Where is ‘The Shetlanders’ Fjord’?

33 Where would you find a cathedral dedicated to St. Magnus?

34 What is the Clan Chattan?

35 What was the Althing of Orkney?

36 Who owns the present earldom estates of Orkney?

37 What is the name for the inhabitants of Orkney?

38 Which famous Earl of Orkney perished from a dead man’s bite?

39 What is ‘The Old Man of Hoy’?

40 When could many highlanders have had £30,000 for the asking yet would not take it?

41 Of which clan is Lochiel the chief?

42 Who was massacred in Glencoe?

43 Which famous Scotswoman assisted Prince Charles Edward Stewart in his flight?

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