| Denomination | Reason for Honor | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Banknotes | Royalty | Queen Elizabeth II | 100%
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| £5 (special commemorative issue) | To mark her Golden Jubilee | Queen Elizabeth II | 100%
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| £10 (special commemorative issue) | To mark her Diamond Jubilee | Queen Elizabeth II | 100%
|
| £5 | Wartime Prime minister | Winston Churchill | 96%
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| £1 (special commemorative issue) | Inventor of the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 73%
|
| £10 | Author | Jane Austen | 73%
|
| £5 | Discoverer of penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 62%
|
| £5 and £10 | Notable Scottish poet | Robert Burns | 58%
|
| £20 | Economist | Adam Smith | 54%
|
| £20 | Economist and key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment | Adam Smith | 54%
|
| £5 (special commemorative issue) | Footballer for Northern Ireland and Manchester United | George Best | 42%
|
| £20 (special commemorative issue) | To mark this Royal's 100th birthday | Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | 38%
|
| £50 | Inventor | James Watt | 31%
|
| £20 | King of the Scots 1306-1329 | Robert the Bruce | 27%
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| £5, £10, £20, £50, £100 | Historical novelist and poet; campaigner for the continuation of Scottish banknote | Sir Walter Scott | 27%
|
| £1 (special commemorative issue) | Scottish novelist and poet | Robert Louis Stevenson | 23%
|
| £10 | Founder of the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company | John Boyd Dunlop | 19%
|
| £100 | Architect and designer | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | 15%
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| £5 (special commemorative issue) | Notable American golfer | Jack Nicklaus | 12%
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| £50 | Manufacturer | Matthew Boulton | 12%
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| £50 | 1st Governor, Bank of England | John Houblon | 8%
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| £50 | Doctor and suffragist | Elsie Inglis | 4%
|
| £20 | Engineer and developer of the modern agricultural tractor | Harry Ferguson | 4%
|
| All Banknotes | Founder and first governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland | Lord Ilay | 4%
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| £100 | Mathematical physicist and engineer | Lord Kelvin | 4%
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| £10 | Scottish missionary to Nigeria and campaigner for women's rights | Mary Slessor | 4%
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| £5 (special commemorative issue) | 250th anniversary of The Golf Club of St Andrews | Old Tom Morris | 4%
|
| £100 | Inventor of the aircraft ejector seat | Sir James Martin | 0%
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| £50 | Founder of the Belfast Sirocco Works and pioneer of air conditioning | Sir Samuel Cleland Davidson | 0%
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