Scotland Quiz 4: multiple choice
5 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. To the nearest million, what is the population of Scotland?
5 million (about 5.5 million)
2. What is the main town of Orkney?
3. In 1919, the interned German fleet scuttled itself in which Orkney anchorage?
Scapa Flow
4. John o' Groats is famous as the end of the road, but which headland is the most northerly point of mainland Britain?
Dunnet Head
5. Dundee was famous for "jute, jam and journalism". Which Dundee publisher produces "The Beano"?
DC Thomson
6. Which polar research ship, built in Dundee for Captain Scott, is now berthed there as a museum?
7. What is Aberdeen's nickname, from the stone used in many of its buildings?
The Granite City
8. Which monument stands on the Abbey Craig, overlooking Stirling?
The National Wallace Monument
9. Which castle in Aberdeenshire was bought by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria?
Balmoral Castle
10. Who wrote the novel "Trainspotting"?
11. The Hogwarts Express crosses which curved railway viaduct in the Harry Potter films?
The Glenfinnan Viaduct
12. Which three banks issue their own banknotes in Scotland?
Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale Bank
13. In 2023, Edinburgh Zoo's two giant pandas went back to which country?
14. In the 2014 independence referendum, to the nearest whole number, what percentage voted No?
55% (55.3%)
15. The Church of Scotland is often called "the Kirk". Which reformer led the Scottish Reformation?
John Knox
16. In Burns's poem "Tam o' Shanter", what is the name of Tam's grey mare?
Meg (Maggie)
17. Dundee cake is traditionally decorated with which nuts?
Almonds
18. Which 1320 letter to the Pope asserted Scotland's independence and declared that "as long as but a hundred of us remain alive" they would never submit to the English?
The Declaration of Arbroath
19. At which racecourse is the Scottish Grand National run?
20. The first Open Championship in golf was played in 1860 at which course?
Prestwick
ANSWERS
1. 5 million (about 5.5 million)
2. C Kirkwall
3. Scapa Flow
4. Dunnet Head
5. DC Thomson
6. B RRS Discovery
7. The Granite City
8. The National Wallace Monument
9. Balmoral Castle
10. A Irvine Welsh
11. The Glenfinnan Viaduct
12. Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale Bank
13. A China
14. 55% (55.3%)
15. John Knox
16. Meg (Maggie)
17. Almonds
18. The Declaration of Arbroath
19. A Ayr
20. Prestwick