T-shirts1.Who was made a saint in 1249 by the church in Rome?
a. Queen Gruoch
b. Queen Matilda
c. Queen Margaret
Margaret (c.1046-93) was the Queen of Malcolm
III. She was actually born in Hungary and came to
Scotland after the Norman conquest of England in
1066 – She was mother to three Scottish kings – Edgar,
Alexander and David. Deeply pious, she was canonised
by the Catholic church
2.Which of the following towns lies furthest south?
a. Nairn
b. Sanquhar
c. Kinlochewe
3.In golf what is the name of the part of the club that strikes the ball?
a. club
b. face
c. front
4.Who was Chair of the important Royal Commission on the Constitution?
a. Queen
b. Lord Kilbrandon
c. Lord Sempill
5.Emigrants from which clan founded Glengarry County, Ontario in Canada?
a. MacFarlane
b. MacDonald
c. MacDonell
6.In which month do migrating ospreys usually arrive in Scotland from West Africa?
a. February
b. April
c. June
7.Who wrote ‘Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect’?
a. John Barbour
b. William Dunbar
c. Robert Burns
8.What is Edinburgh’s Civic Trust, the heritage and conservation organisation, also known as?
a. Cockburn Association
b. Burns Association
c. Scott Association
‘The Cockburn Association’, named after the
eminent lawyer and conservationist Henry, Lord
Cockburn (1779-1854), was set up in 1875 to act as a
pressure group on conservation issues relating to the
preservation of Edinburgh’s buildings and landscape,
and in which it continues to play an active role.
9.Who discovered the concept of fluorescence in 1833?
a. John Hunter
b. Joseph Lister
c. Sir David Brewster
In a paper read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh
in 1833, Sir David Brewster described a remarkable
phenomenon he had discovered, and to which he gave
the name ‘internal dispersion’. Brewster discovered
the phenomenon upon shining a beam of sunlight into
a green solution.
10.Which island is most famous for distinctive peaty whisky?
a. Skye
b. Orkney
c. Islay