Which playing card is known as the 'Curse of Scotland'?

• Queen of Spades
• Nine of Diamonds
• Ace of Clubs

What fish is smoked to produce a kipper?

• haddock
• herring
• cod

How long does whisky need to mature in cask, for it to be legally Scotch whisky?

• 1 year
• 2 years
• 3 years

Which castle is seen on a Royal bank of Scotland £100 note?

• Balmoral
• Edinburgh
• Stirling

Who stopped over for his only visit to the UK at Prestwick airport?

• Neil Armstrong
• Elvis Presley
• President Eisenhower

Which famous railway bridge collapsed in 1897?

• Tay Bridge
• Forth Bridge
• Skye Bridge

What do Ann Park, Lizzie Paton and Jenny Clow all have in common?

• all witches in Macbeth
• all were maid servants of Mary Queen of Scots
• all bore children to Robert Burns

Who developed chloroform?

• Alexander Fleming
• James Simpson
• Thomas McLaggan

What is the world's oldest weekly comic still in production?

• The Dandy
• The Beano
• The Broons

What are 'whigmaleeries'?

• bacon and eggs
• cats and dogs
• jewellery and toys

Whose son roasted a servant on a spit while the 1707 Act of Union was being signed just up the road?

• Earl of Hopetoun
• Duke of Buccleuch
• Duke of Queensberry

What made James Tytler of Edinburgh famous in 1784?

• published poems by Robert Burns
• Britain's first balloonist
• body-snatching