Hamish’s Scottish Quiz

Thanks to all who emailed me to say how well or badly they did in last week’s quiz. This week’s questions are:

1. Which Scottish actor has been named as the new patron of the Edinburgh Fringe?

2. Which town in East Lothian was recently named as the most desirable place to live in the UK?

3. What senior football club did veteran manager Neil Warnock recently leave?

4. Yolande de Dreux was the wife of which ill-fated Scottish king at the time of his death?

5. In the names of Scottish places, what does the Scots word Shaw or Shaws indicate?

6. In which position in the Guinness Six Nations championship did Scotland’s men’s rugby team finish?

7. A political movement which lasted from 1886 to 1929, what do the initials SHRA stand for?

8. Famously from Barrhead, what was the name of the renowned sanitary-ware manufacturer that was once the biggest employer in the town?

9. Grandfather of Willie Whitelaw – an ally of Margaret Thatcher – in which industry did former MP William Whitelaw (18681946) become the leading Scottish figure?

10. The Scottish Parliament in 1644 made itself rather unpopular by imposing a tax on which drink, the first of many such impositions?

11. Which 18th-century thinker is known as the father of the “Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense”? 12. Writers in Scotland in Victorian times were often described as being of the “Kailyard School”. What is a “kailyard”?

13. Which member of the band Deacon Blue has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Stirling University?

14. What is the name of the main airport of the Shetland Islands?

15. In what decade was the modern Episcopalian Scottish Book of Common Prayer published?

16. What earls were the original owners of the ancient Balloch Castle on Loch Lomonside?

17. Which former Scots makar wrote the novel Trumpet?

18. Highland, Lowland, Border and Cauld Wind were all versions of which musical instrument?

19. They lasted from 1975 to 1996 and there were nine of them on the mainland of Scotland. What form of local authority were these?

20. The Battle of Auldearn in 1645 was one of the victories for which Royalist general?