A Scottish Quiz
Courtesy of Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd.
I'll try to keep this going as long as I can. There are no prizes but, if anyone sends me the correct answers (my decision is final!), I'll post a league table. All answers must be with me by the 19th November, 2000.
Quiz One
ENTERTAINMENT
1. Who directed the film
Gregory’s Girl?
2. In which year was television first broadcast in Scotland?
3. Which film-maker, often called the Father of the Documentary, directed
the classic Night Mail?
4. Which Scottish Olympic gold medal-winner was portrayed in the film
Chariots of Fire?
5. Who played Gregory's girl in Gregory’s Girl?
SPORT
1 Which golf course
hosted the first Open Championships in 1867?
2 How many Formula One World Driver’s Championships did Jackie Stewart
win?
3. Which
king decreed that soldiers not play golf?
4. Falkland
Palace, west of St Andrews, contains Britain’s oldest venue for which sport?
5. Which
Irish sport is the nearest relative to shinty?
PEOPLE
1 In 1953 Sean Connery represented Scotland in which competition, coming
third?
2
In which year was William Wallace betrayed to the
English and executed?
3
Which king created the ‘Royal Burghs’?
4
Which king extended Scottish dominion south to
the Tweed in 1018?
5
Who was responsible for the Arbroath Declaration
in 1320?
MUSIC and LITERATURE
1 In the ballad ‘Edward’, what was Edward’s crime?
2
Which of Shakespeare’s plays is known as ‘the Scottish
play’?
3
In the Scottish story’The Frog Prince’, where does
the heroine meet the frog?
4
In ‘The Black Bull of Norway’ the heroine is helped
by an apple, a pear and what other type of fruit?
5 What was the name of Sir Walter Scott’s last, and most famous, house?
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1 What is the dish Powsodie made with?
2
Cashmere is a thriving industry in Scotland, but
where does the fibre come from?
3
What were Marchmen?
4
What is a ‘gare’?
5 What is another name for the reivers, or Borders bandits?
Answers and more questions next
time - Ian
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