Q 01/05

The British saying "like painting the Forth Bridge" describes which kind of job?

A) A dangerously risky job

B) A never-ending task

C) A pointless errand

D) A job done on the cheap

Answer · why

B) A never-ending task

A never-ending task is the meaning, from the belief that painters who reached one end had to start again at the other. No such routine ever existed, a...

Q 02/05

Operation Forth Bridge was the code name for the funeral plans of which member of the British royal family?

A) The Queen Mother

B) King George VI

C) Princess Diana

D) Prince Philip

Answer · why

D) Prince Philip

Prince Philip was Duke of Edinburgh, so planners named his funeral arrangements after the famous bridge near the city of his title. The plan was set i...

Q 03/05

Which orange soft drink from A.G. Barr used the Forth Bridge on its advertising posters?

A) Irn-Bru

B) Tizer

C) Fanta

D) Lucozade

Answer · why

A) Irn-Bru

Irn-Bru leaned on the bridge to sell itself as a drink as tough as Scottish ironwork. Its recipe really does contain a trace of an iron compound, ammo...

Q 04/05

In which 1935 Alfred Hitchcock thriller does the hero flee a train that police have stopped on the Forth Bridge?

A) The Lady Vanishes

B) Young and Innocent

C) The 39 Steps

D) Secret Agent

Answer · why

C) The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps gave the bridge its most famous screen moment, yet John Buchan's original novel has no such scene. Hitchcock added it, and the 1959 remak...

Q 05/05

The Forth Bridge was the first major structure in Britain to be built from which metal?

A) Iron

B) Bronze

C) Copper

D) Steel

Answer · why

D) Steel

Steel had only recently become consistent enough for a job this size, thanks to a new furnace process. Three works supplied it, two in Scotland and on...