Scottish Quiz 1
The following questions are all related to the country of Scotland
1. What title is given to the Scottish equivalent of a mayor?
2. Which famous Scottish battle took place in 1314?
3. In which Scottish town was marriage by declaration abolished in 1940?
Alternative Question: Which Scottish town is famous as a venue for runaway marriages?
4. After being arrested in 1605, who said that he wanted to blow the Scots back into Scotland?
5. Which Scottish inventor give the first public demonstration of television?
6. Where would you find a chanter and a drone?
7. What is the name of the Pouch worn in front of a kilt?
8. Which Scottish phrase was the title of a number one song in 1958?
9. Which stick-and-ball game resembling hurling, is popular in the Scottish Highlands?
10. Which Scottish mathematician invented logarithms?
11. Of all the teams in the English and Scottish football leagues, which is unique in having a letter in its name which no other club has?
12. What is the Scottish equivalent of the Coroner?
13. Who is the most capped Scottish footballer of all time?
14. Lollius Urbicus was responsible for building a defensive wall to keep out Scottish tribes, what was it called?
15. What is Scotlands longest river?
16. True or false: Scotland Yard was originally the name of a medieval house used by Scottish Kings visiting London?
17. Which body of water in Scotland contains more water than all the English and Welsh lakes put together?
18. Which Scot played for Torino in 1961-62?
19. What Scottish foodstuff did Robert Burns address as the Great Chieftain o the puddin race?
20. Who was the Scottish schoolteacher created by Muriel Spark?
ANSWERS
1. Provost
2. Battle of Bannockburn
3. Gretna Green
4. Guy Fawkes
5. John Logie Baird
6. On bagpipes
7. a sporran
8. Hoots Mon (by Lord Rockingham's XI)
9. Shinty
10. John Napier
11. St Johnstone (j)
12. Procurator Fiscal
13. Kenny Dalglish
14. Antonine Wall
15. The Tay
16. True
17. Loch Lomond
18. Dennis Law
19. The haggis, not surprisingly
20. Miss Jean Brodie