Q 01/05

Which village sits at the south-western end of Loch Ness?

A) Invermoriston

B) Dochgarroch

C) Fort Augustus

D) Whitebridge

Answer · why

C) Fort Augustus

Fort Augustus went by its Gaelic name, Cille Chuimein, until a government fort built after the 1715 rising was named for George II's son William Augus...

Q 02/05

What was the 'dead Nessie' that a zoo's education officer planted in the loch as a 1972 April Fools' joke?

A) A basking shark

B) A bull elephant seal

C) A leatherback turtle

D) A beluga whale

Answer · why

B) A bull elephant seal

A bull elephant seal: he shaved its whiskers, froze it and dumped it for his colleagues to find, and police chased down the van that was carrying 'Nes...

Q 03/05

Researchers link George Spicer's 1933 'dragon' sighting to which hit film?

A) King Kong

B) Frankenstein

C) Dracula

D) The Mummy

Answer · why

A) King Kong

King Kong shows a long-necked creature rising from a lake, and the film had come out only months before Spicer reported his 'dragon'.

Q 04/05

Which Irish monk is said to have confronted a 'water beast' in the River Ness in 565?

A) Patrick

B) Ninian

C) Andrew

D) Columba

Answer · why

D) Columba

Columba had just watched locals bury a man the beast had savaged, yet still sent a companion swimming across for a boat; the Life that tells the story...

Q 05/05

How did a sixth-century saint halt a 'water beast' in the River Ness, according to Adomnán?

A) By ringing a handbell

B) With the sign of the cross

C) By singing a psalm

D) By striking the water

Answer · why

B) With the sign of the cross

With the sign of the cross and an order to go back: the beast fled 'as if pulled back with ropes', a spear's length short of the man swimming across t...