Q 01/05

Which London store claims to have invented the Scotch egg, a snack with no proven Scottish origin, in 1738?

A) Fortnum & Mason

B) Marks & Spencer

C) Harvey Nichols

D) Selfridges

Answer · why

A) Fortnum & Mason

Fortnum & Mason claims to have invented the Scotch egg at Piccadilly in 1738. A Yorkshire account instead says it began in Whitby, covered in fish pas...

Q 02/05

Haggis hurling, a Highland games event whose record throw was 66 metres in 2011, began in 1977 as what?

A) A whisky advertisement

B) A practical joke

C) A BBC charity telethon

D) A school sports-day event

Answer · why

B) A practical joke

Haggis hurling was a practical joke: publicist Robin Dunseath admitted in 2004 that he invented it for the 1977 Gathering of the Clans in Edinburgh. L...

Q 03/05

Which dish did a 2009 Scottish Daily Express survey find a third of Scots eat every week?

A) Haggis and neeps

B) Fish and chips

C) Mince and tatties

D) Scotch broth

Answer · why

C) Mince and tatties

Mince and tatties beat smoked salmon, haggis and Scotch pies to the top of the poll, a legacy of its years as a school-canteen staple. Cooks thicken i...

Q 04/05

Buckfast, the caffeinated tonic wine notorious in Scotland, was first made by monks in which English county?

A) Kent

B) Cornwall

C) Somerset

D) Devon

Answer · why

D) Devon

Devon's Buckfast Abbey monks first made the tonic wine in the 1890s, selling it as a medicine with the slogan 'Three small glasses a day, for good hea...

Q 05/05

Why did A.G. Barr have to rename its Iron Brew drink as Irn-Bru in 1946?

A) Labels had to be literally true

B) A trademark clash with Coca-Cola

C) Post-war bottle shortages

D) Moving to a new factory

Answer · why

A) Labels had to be literally true

Labels had to be literally true under a 1946 law, and Iron Brew contained little iron and was not brewed. Rivals still sell generic 'Iron Brew', while...