Scotland Quiz 5
1. Which engineer from Greenock greatly improved the steam engine, and has a unit of power named after him?
2. Which economist from Kirkcaldy wrote "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776?
3. Which Edinburgh philosopher wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature"?
4. What did John Boyd Dunlop, born in Ayrshire, develop in 1888?
5. Which blacksmith from Dumfriesshire is often credited with building the first pedal-driven bicycle?
6. What did the Glasgow chemist Charles Macintosh give his name to?
7. Which famous reference work was first published in Edinburgh in 1768?
8. Which African river did the explorer Mungo Park try to trace?
9. Which steel magnate, born in Dunfermline, became one of the richest men in the world and gave away most of his fortune?
10. Which Edinburgh detective was created by Ian Rankin?
11. In which country is Alexander McCall Smith's "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" set?
12. Which twin brothers from Leith recorded "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"?
13. Which Scottish singer won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 (in a four-way tie) with "Boom Bang-a-Bang"?
14. What is Billy Connolly's nickname?
15. In 1983, Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen beat which giant club to win the European Cup Winners' Cup?
16. What is the name of Scotland's national football stadium in Glasgow?
17. How many Olympic gold medals did the cyclist Sir Chris Hoy win?
18. At the 1924 Olympics, Eric Liddell refused to run the 100 metres heats on a Sunday. Which distance did he win gold in instead?
19. In which sport did Rhona Martin skip Britain's team to Olympic gold in 2002?
20. Which is the largest national park in the United Kingdom?
ANSWERS
1. James Watt
2. Adam Smith
3. David Hume
4. The pneumatic (air-filled) tyre
Dunlop developed it for his son's tricycle while living in Belfast. Another Scot, Robert William Thomson, had patented an air-filled tyre in 1845, but it never caught on.
5. Kirkpatrick Macmillan
The claim, dating his machine to about 1839, is widely repeated but disputed by some historians.
6. The waterproof raincoat (the mackintosh)
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica
8. The Niger
9. Andrew Carnegie
10. John Rebus
11. Botswana
12. The Proclaimers (Craig and Charlie Reid)
13. Lulu
14. The Big Yin
15. Real Madrid
16. Hampden Park
17. Six
18. 400 metres
His story was told in the 1981 film "Chariots of Fire".
19. Curling
20. The Cairngorms National Park
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