General Knowledge
Geography
Scots from history
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Featuring a bag, drones, and a chanter, this loud reed instrument is Scotland's most iconic musical export.

What are the bagpipes?

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This is the capital city of Scotland

What is Edinburgh 

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This Edinburgh-born author created the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

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This prickly purple flower serves as a national symbol of Scotland

What is the thistle?

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Though Edinburgh is the capital, this larger city is Scotland's most populous

What is Glasgow?

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Though he won his only Oscar playing a tough Irish cop in "The Untouchables," this legendary actor from Edinburgh is best remembered as the original big-screen James Bond

Who is Sean Connery?

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Each Scottish clan is traditionally linked to its own pattern of this checked, criss-crossed woolen cloth.

What is tartan?

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This mountainous northern region of Scotland holds much of its wild scenery, including Ben Nevis and Loch Ness

What are the Highlands?

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Known as the "Wizard of the North," this Scottish author brought the Middle Ages to life in his 1820 novel "Ivanhoe"

Who is Sir Walter Scott? 


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Tourists are sometimes told this savory dish comes from a small fictional wild Highland animal, but it's really made from sheep's offal

What is haggis?

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Lying off Scotland's east coast, this oil-rich sea separates it from Norway

What is the North Sea?

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Born in Glasgow, this electrifying lead guitarist is famous for rocking a velvet schoolboy uniform while performing hits with the band AC/DC.

Who is Angus Young?

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Scotland's national drink takes its name from the Gaelic uisge beatha, which translates to this

What is "the water of life"?

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Begun in AD 122, this roughly 73-mile stone wall ran coast to coast across northern England, marking the northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire.

What is Hadrian's Wall?

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This ill-fated Stuart queen spent 19 years imprisoned in England before being executed by her cousin, Elizabeth I, in 1587.

Who is Mary, Queen of Scots?