Essential Facts and History of Scotland Quiz

Famous Scottish People

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• 11. Shakespeare wrote about the Scottish king Macbeth.
• 12. Robert Adam learnt about buildings in Rome.
• 13. David Hume went to university when he was twelve years old.
• 14. Robert Burns wrote beautiful poems.
• 15. James Watt began a business and made hundreds of steam engines.
• 16. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote stories about a detective called Sherlock Holmes.
• 17. In the 1880s, Andrew Carnegie became the richest man in the world.
• 18. Charles Rennie Mackintosh made many important buildings in Glasgow.
• 19. In 1962, Sean Connery was James Bond in a film.
• 20. Queen Elizabeth stays in Edinburgh Castle every summer.

Scottish Facts

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• 21. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland.
• 22. Scotland has about 800 islands.
• 23. ‘Scotch’ is another word for whisky.
• 24. A clan is a big Scottish family.
• 25. There are about 5 million people in Scotland.
• 26. About 1,900 years ago, the Romans built a wall across the northern part of England.
• 27. About 1 per cent of the people in Scotland speak Gaelic.
• 28. After the Battle of Bannockburn, about 10,000 English soldiers were dead.
• 29. At Edinburgh Castle, you can hear a big gun at 1 p.m. every day.
• 30. The Hogmanay street party in Edinburgh starts on 31 December.

Vocabulary

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• 31. An animal that lives in water: fish
• 32. With very little money: poor
• 33. A person who visits a place on holiday: tourist
• 34. To go up towards the top of something: climb
• 35. A piece of land with water round it: island
• 36. The meat from a cow: beef
• 37. A fight between soldiers in a war: battle
• 38. Thick liquid that comes from under the ground, used for energy: oil
• 39. To give money for something: buy
• 40. The place where you can walk next to the sea: beach

Historical Events

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• 41. The last big battle in Great Britain was at Culloden in 1746.
• 42. Mary became queen of Scotland when she was 6 days old.
• 43. Scotland and England became Great Britain in 1707.
• 44. Glasgow became rich in the 1800s because people built ships there.
• 45. Between 1820 and 1914, about 2 million Scottish people went across the seas to the USA and other countries.
• 46. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call.
• 47. David Livingstone went to Africa to begin schools and to tell people about Christianity.
• 48. Every September, the best bagpipers in the world come to Inverness.
• 49. In the 1970s, oil and gas in the North Sea began to bring money to Scotland.
• 50. When Alan Bean went to the moon, he took some haggis with him.