Scottish Quiz 3

1 Can you identify the following:
A A border hero treacherously hanged with all his men at
Caerlanrigg by James V.
B A border character who stole a horse and was paid by its owner for a foal he had never lost.
C A border hero who was taken in a truce but rescued from Carlisle Castle by the bold Buccleuch.
D A character who set off to recover three stolen cows and came home with three fine horses.
E An English outlaw who helped to set Jock o’ the Side free, but was later betrayed by the Armstrongs.

2 What is the Devil’s Dyke?

3 Where would you find the keys of the old Tolbooth of
Edinburgh and what was the old Tolbooth?

4 Where would you find:
A Little France (Little Picardy)
B Little Egypt

5 Who were the Faa?

6 Where is Tibbie Shiel’s Inn and why is it famous?

7 Where do the ‘uppies’ play the ‘doonies’ at Candlemas?

8 Who was Black Agnes?

9 Who cleft the Eildon Hills in three?

10 Meirose, Jedburgh, Kelso. What do these three have in common?

11 When Auld Wat of Harden was served with spurs on a dish what did that mean?

12 Who was ‘Bell the Cat’?

13 Who was ‘Muckle-Mou’ed Meg’?

14 What family is associated with Branksome tower?

15 What is a moss trooper?

16 Whose ghost might you meet on Magus Muir?

17 What is the alternative name of the Battle of Otterburn?

18 Who said:
‘Yestreen the Queen had four Manes,
The nicht she’ll hae but three;
There was Marie Seton, and Mary Beaton,
And Marie Carmichael and me.’

19 Who was the Laird o’ Cockpen?

20 What was the Bateable Land?

21 Where do the Braw Lads gather at Midsummer?

22 Where do the callants ride the Marches under a cornet?

23 Which border town was renowned for its soutars?

24 How did Queensferry get its name?

25 Who were the Wigtownshire martyrs?

26 In which village is a dowry given to the tallest, shortest, oldest and youngest brides of the year?

27 Edinburgh’s big but...?

28 Who was Tom Purdie?

29 What Border abbey was founded by Devorguilla, the foundress of Balliol College, Oxford?

30 What was the Luckenbooth?

31 For what is Jenny Geddes remembered?

32 What is Arthur’s Seat?

33 What is the Ruthwell Cross?

34 In which castle in Scotland could you find a bottle dungeon?

35 From which castle did Mary Queen of Scots escape by boat?

36 Which spendthrift lost all his possessions and recovered them with money he found at a rope’s end?

37 Which great King of Scots was originally Earl of Carrick and Lord of Annandale?

38 Who was Thomas of Ercildoune?

39 Where did he lie?

40 Where are ‘The Dowie Dens’?

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