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1.What does the Gaelic word ‘plaid’ mean?
a. tartan
b. blanket
c. kilt
2.Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall attended primary school in which of the following towns?
a. Arbroath
b. St Andrews
c. Largs
3.Which Scottish American made the ‘liberty or death’ speeches during the USA War of Independence?
a. Andrew Hamilton
b. Patrick Henry
c. Benjamin Franklin
4.Which of the following places lies furthest west?
a. Crieff
b. Dundee
c. Dalmally
5.Which poet went to see Queen Victoria at Balmoral, but was turned away at the gate?
a. Alfred Lord Tennyson
b. William Topaz McGonagall
c. Robert Burns
6.What is ‘Desperate Dan’?
a. MSP
b. Glasgow pop group
c. cartoon character
‘Desperate Dan’, a big, stubble-chinned cowboy who
always eats cow pies, first appeared in a comic in
1937 published by the Dundee firm DC Thomsons.
7.Who wrote The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776?
a. Robert Burns
b. James Boswell
c. Adam Smith
Adam Smith was probably Scotland’s most influential
philosopher whose book The Wealth of Nations has
had a lasting impact on economic theory.
8.St Kilda, 165km west of mainland Scotland, is the remotest inhabited Scottish island. Members of which organisation have lived there since 1969?
a. Tibetan monks
b. Ministry of Defence
c. Norwegian fishermen
9.What was the Reverend Robert Walker doing in Raeburn’s famous portrait?
a. skating
b. preaching
c. curling
10.Which famous Scottish school was founded by Kurt Hahn in 1934?
a. Gordonstoun
b. Rudolf Steiner
c. Glenalmond
