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Scottish towns: fun facts - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 22 times
- The average score is 9 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| This oil hub used to have the world's biggest heliport. The self-seal envelope was also invented here. | Aberdeen | 94%
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| In 2014, a woman on a flight to this capital city attacked a passenger with her prosthetic leg. | Edinburgh | 82%
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| The gritting lorry keeping this town's roads ice-free was named TroonRaker. | Troon | 82%
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| A man from this new town in Fife gets up and cooks meals in his sleep. | Glenrothes | 71%
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| In 2014, a man in this former shipbuilding hub robbed a Ladbrokes betting office armed with a cucumber. | Glasgow | 65%
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| This town has a university which dates back to 1413. | St. Andrews | 65%
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| The man who pioneered the world's first working TV came from this town in Argyll. | Helensburgh | 59%
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| An 8th century warrior was found buried in this Easter Ross village with four other skulls in the grave. | Portmahomack | 59%
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| A writer flying from this northern city was stopped at Birmingham airport because his haggis was mistaken for a bomb. | Inverness | 53%
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| Every Ne'erday, people gather here to swim in the frigid water of the Forth. | South Queensferry | 53%
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| In 1437, King James I tried to flee assassins here via a sewer, but he'd recently had the escape route blocked off to prevent his tennis balls going into it. | Perth | 47%
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| Mary Shelley once lived in this city, which influenced her novel Frankenstein. It is Scotland's smallest council area. | Dundee | 41%
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| Alexander III met his end in 1286; while riding in the dark to this Fife town, he fell off a cliff. | Kinghorn | 41%
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| A rare example of a place being renamed thrice, this west coast town was previously called Maryburgh, Gordonsburgh, then Duncansburgh. | Fort William | 29%
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| Guinness list this eastern coastal town as having the world's oldest surviving golf course. | Musselburgh | 12%
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