Test Your Scottish Knowledge with Our Fun Quiz! (25th Week)

1.What do ‘Fat Bob’, ‘Soapy Soutar’ and ‘Wee Eck’ have in common?
a. members of the Scottish Parliament 
b. actors in TV show Taggart 
c. characters in the Oor Wullie cartoon series

The Oor Wullie cartoon strip appears every week
in The Sunday Post, Scotland’s biggest circulation
Sunday newspaper. This venerable institution features
Wullie, a miniature Scots philosopher with spiky hair
usually seated on an upturned bucket, musing about
the meaning of life in broad Scots dialect. He is often
surrounded by these friends.

2.Which Glasgow-founded worldwide organisation celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2008?
a. Girls Brigade 
b. Boys Brigade 
c.Scouts
3.Where did the Shawfield Riots take place in 1725?
a. Glasgow 
b. Inverness 
c. Perth

In 1725 a new tax on beer, along with general
resentment towards the Act of Union in 1707,
caused a riot in Glasgow. The protesters burnt
down Shawfield House, the home of the MP Duncan
Campbell.

4.On which island was the last great auk in the British Isles killed?
a. Mull 
b. South Uist 
c. St Kilda
5.What does the term ‘feileadh beg’ refer to?
a. big kilt 
b. little kilt 
c. original kilt
6.Which industry do you associate with the Trade Union leader, Mick McGahey?
a. coalmining 
b. shipbuilding 
c. railways
7.Who accompanied Dr Samuel Johnson on his late 18th century tour of the Hebrides?
a. Robert Burns 
b. Adam Smith 
c. James Boswell

In 1773, James Boswell accompanied his friend and
mentor, Samuel Johnson, round the Western Isles
and later published a fascinating account of the trip
entitled Journal of Tour to the Hebrides.

8.Approximately what percentage of the world’s grey seal population is found in Scottish waters?
a. 20% 
b. 30% 
c. 40%
9.Where was JK Rowling living when she began writing the Harry Potter books?
a. London 
b. Mull 
c. Edinburgh
10.At what age can you legally drink alcohol in Scotland?
a. 16 
b. 18 
c. 21