Q 01/05

Which city is the capital of Scotland?

A) Edinburgh

B) Dundee

C) Aberdeen

D) Perth

Answer · why

A) Edinburgh

Edinburgh has been recognised as Scotland's capital since at least the 15th century, though it is not the country's largest city.

Q 02/05

Which Scottish inventor gave the world's first demonstration of true television, in London in 1926?

A) John Logie Baird

B) Alexander Graham Bell

C) James Watt

D) Guglielmo Marconi

Answer · why

A) John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird showed his television to about 50 scientists in an attic room in central London, after building his first crude apparatus from odds a...

Q 03/05

What is the highest mountain in Scotland, and in Great Britain?

A) Ben Macdui

B) Cairn Gorm

C) Ben Nevis

D) Ben Lomond

Answer · why

C) Ben Nevis

Ben Nevis was only confirmed as Britain's highest peak by the Ordnance Survey in 1847; before that, many thought Ben Macdui might be higher.

Q 04/05

Which Scottish outpost's last 36 residents asked to be evacuated in 1930?

A) Fair Isle

B) Iona

C) Foula

D) St Kilda

Answer · why

D) St Kilda

St Kilda had been inhabited for about two thousand years, but illness and the upheaval of the First World War helped drive its last islanders away.

Q 05/05

Which Scottish loch is the largest lake in Great Britain by surface area?

A) Loch Awe

B) Loch Lomond

C) Loch Tay

D) Loch Morar

Answer · why

B) Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond covers the most area, but far deeper Loch Ness holds more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined.