Migration of Scots
The Education Act of 1872 made education compulsory for children of which age?
5-13 year olds
Give the name of one cafe set up by Italian immigrants in Scotland
Nardinis in Largs
John A Macdonald, Glasgow
Which part of Australia experienced a gold rush in the 1850s?
New South Wales
Which continent is the largest?
Asia
Which disease affected Scottish potato crops in 1846?
Potato blight
Mention three jobs typically done by Catholic Irish immigrants
Navvies
Dockside labourers
Coal miners
Domestic servants in Edinburgh
Which large railway did Scots help to construct which connected Canada's Atlantic and Pacific coasts?
The Canadian Pacific Railway
What kind of business did Malcolm McEachern and Andrew McIlwraith found?
Shipping
What do the following words have in common: isosceles, equilateral, and scalene?
They are all types of triangle
How long did it take to get to Canada by steamship in 1914?
1 week
What was the name of the first Synagogue built in Scotland?
The Garnethill Synagogue
Which part of Scotland did the Hudson Bay company recruit many of it's workers from?
Orkney
How many acres did Donald Macleod seize from Aboriginal people?
20,000
What is the national dish of England?
Chicken Tikka Masala
In which year was the Empire Settlement Act introduced?
1922
Mention three industries that Protestant Irish immigrants worked in
Shipbuilding
Iron and steel
Textile work - i.e. jute, weaving
How many Native children died in residential schools?
6000
What kind of institution did Sir Thomas Stuart set up in Sydney?
A medical school
What do you call a baby owl?
An owlet
Which disease was spread by fleas and lice in the industrial cities?
Typhus
What was the name of the Lithuanian newspaper first published in 1905?
Which man opened and managed a branch of the bank of Montreal?
John Maclean
Which company did Robert Morehead found in 1840?
The Scottish Australian mining company
Who is the longest-serving US president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt