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100 Scottish People - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 346 times
- The average score is 40 of 100
Answer Stats
| Description | Answer | % Correct |
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| Suave actor who starred as 007 in seven James Bond movies | Sean Connery | 93%
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| Scottish-American inventor who was awarded the patent for the first practical telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 91%
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| Author who created Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 88%
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| 16th century Catholic monarch whose 25-year reign was mired in sectarian divisions, political conspiracy and tensions with her cousin Elizabeth I | Mary Queen of Scots | 85%
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| Economist and political philosopher who wrote "The Wealth of Nations" | Adam Smith | 81%
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| Arguably Britain's most successful Labour Prime Minister | Tony Blair | 80%
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| Physician credited with discovering penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 79%
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| Author of the "No.1 Ladies Detective Agency" book series | Alexander McCall Smith | 79%
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| Popular leader of the Labour Party who died of a sudden heart attack in 1994 | John Smith | 79%
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| Scotland's national poet, commemorated annually on 25th January | Robert Burns | 79%
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| Author of the Harry Potter book series | J.K. Rowling | 78%
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| Actor who starred as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episodes I-III of Star Wars | Ewan McGregor | 76%
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| 14th century monarch who led the armies of Scotland in the First War of Scottish Independence | Robert the Bruce | 76%
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| Knight lionised for defeating English forces at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 | William Wallace | 76%
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| This British Prime Minister presided over the fallout following the Great Recession of 2007-08 | Gordon Brown | 74%
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| Tennis player who won the 2012, 2013 and 2016 Wimbledon Championships | Andy Murray | 73%
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| Short-haired singer who, along with Dave Stewart, formed the new wave duo Eurythmics | Annie Lennox | 71%
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| Post-Elizabethan British monarch remembered for his opposition to tobacco and witchcraft | James VI | 70%
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| 19th century novelist whose works include "Kidnapped", "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" | Robert Louis Stevenson | 70%
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| Actor best-known for starring as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who | David Tennant | 67%
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| Manager of Manchester United from 1986 to 2013 | Alex Ferguson | 65%
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| Outlaw who became one of the best known figures of the Jacobite Risings | Rob Roy McGregor | 65%
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| 11th century Scottish king whose life was fictionalised in Shakespeare's play of the same name | Macbeth | 64%
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| Comedian who hosted a late night talk show on CBS between 2005 and 2014 | Craig Ferguson | 63%
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| This doctor, explorer and Christian missionary was famously found by Henry Morton Stanley in modern-day Tanzania in 1871 | David Livingstone | 63%
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| Singer who rose to fame after performing "I Dreamed a Dream" on Britain's Got Talent | Susan Boyle | 63%
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| Controversial Glaswegian comedian who in 2010 was condemned for a series of jokes about Katie Price's disabled son | Frankie Boyle | 61%
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| Engineer renowned for inventing the steam engine | James Watt | 60%
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| Retired Formula One racing driver sometimes known as "The Flying Scot" | Jackie Stewart | 59%
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| Scotland's first female First Minister and most electorally successful leader of the Scottish National Party | Nicola Sturgeon | 59%
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| Glasgow University physicist who accurately determined the value of absolute zero, and after whom a temperature scale is named | William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin | 59%
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| Author, podcaster and former Conservative Party cabinet minister who was ousted from Parliament for rebelling against Boris Johnson's Brexit deal | Rory Stewart | 58%
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| Renfrewshire-born celebrity chef known for his fiery on-screen demeanour and liberal use of profanity | Gordon Ramsay | 57%
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| Tourette's-afflicted Glaswegian singer whose song "Someone You Loved" was one of the biggest global hits of 2019 | Lewis Capaldi | 53%
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| Actor who starred as political spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It | Peter Capaldi | 52%
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| Leith rock duo comprised of twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid | The Proclaimers | 51%
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| Novelist and playwright best known for creating "Peter Pan" | J.M. Barrie | 48%
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| "Ivanhoe" novellist, after whom a large monument in Edinburgh is dedicated | Walter Scott | 47%
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| As of 2024, this swimmer is Scotland's most decorated Olympian | Duncan Scott | 46%
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| Heroine who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden | Flora MacDonald | 46%
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| Comedian and national treasure, known as the 'Big Yin' | Billy Connolly | 45%
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| Actress who voiced Princess Merida in the 2012 Pixar animated movie Brave | Kelly Macdonald | 45%
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| Britain's first Labour Party Prime Minister | James Ramsay Macdonald | 43%
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| Actor known for his roles as Dr. Eddie FitzGerald in Cracker and Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films | Robbie Coltrane | 42%
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| Electrical engineer who demonstrated the first successful working television system in 1926 | John Logie Baird | 41%
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| Knighted footballer who played for both Celtic and Liverpool | Kenny Dalglish | 39%
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| Hollywood actor whose film credits include Charles Xavier in X-Men and Nicholas Garrigan in The Last King of Scotland | James McAvoy | 38%
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| SNP and Alba politician who was First Minister of Scotland during the 2014 Independence Referendum | Alex Salmond | 35%
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| Track cyclist who won three gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games | Chris Hoy | 35%
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| Glaswegian actor who starred as the Spartan king Leonidas in 300 | Gerard Butler | 35%
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| This Paisley-born singer's greatest hit was undoubtedly "Baker Street" | Gerry Rafferty | 35%
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| Scottish Enlightenment philosopher who wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature" | David Hume | 33%
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| Dundonian actor who starred as media mogul Logan Roy in Succession | Brian Cox | 32%
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| Former Downing Street Director of Communications and political pundit who currently hosts the Rest is Politics podcast | Alastair Campbell | 31%
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| Author of "Trainspotting" and "Filth", known for writing in vernacular Scots | Irvine Welsh | 31%
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| Actress who starred as Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe | Karen Gillan | 30%
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| Eurovision-winning singer who performed the title song for the the 1974 Bond movie The Man With the Golden Gun | Lulu | 30%
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| BAFTA-winning Maryhill actor who starred as Gareth "Gaz" Schofield in The Full Monty | Robert Carlyle | 30%
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| Singer and producer who was part of Thin Lizzy and Ultravox | Midge Ure | 27%
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| Conservative Prime Minister and former professional cricketer who succeeded Harold Macmillan | Alec Douglas Home | 26%
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| DJ and record producer whose debut album was entitled "I Created Disco" | Calvin Harris | 26%
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| Lanarkshire singer who performed the theme song to the 1981 Bond movie For Your Eyes Only | Sheena Easton | 26%
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| Former lead singer of Wet Wet Wet | Marti Pellow | 25%
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| Distance runner whose 1991 10,000m record was smashed by her daughter Eilish in 2022 | Liz McColgan | 24%
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| Former professional footballer who was a regular pundit on Match of the Day from 1992 to 2014 | Alan Hansen | 23%
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| Satirist and screenwriter whose productions include The Thick of It, Veep and The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci | 23%
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| Glaswegian architect and designer widely recognised as one of the leading figures of the Art Nouveau movement | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | 22%
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| Rwandan-Scottish actor who starred as the fourteenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who | Ncuti Gatwa | 22%
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| Singer-songwriter of Italian heritage whose albums include "Sunny Side Up" and "Caustic Love" | Paolo Nutini | 22%
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| Politician who briefly served as Prime Minister between October 1922 and May 1923 before retiring due to ill health | Andrew Bonar Law | 20%
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| Trade unionist who founded the Labour Party | Keir Hardie | 20%
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| Crime writer who created the Edinburgh detective DI John Rebus | Ian Rankin | 19%
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| Novelist and Governor-General of Canada who wrote "The Thirty-Nine Steps" | John Buchan | 19%
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| Civil engineer known for designing major road and canal networks, and after whom a town in Shropshire is named | Thomas Telford | 19%
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| This R&B singer, who performed the song "Read All About It", originally studied neuroscience at the University of Glasgow | Emeli Sandé | 18%
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| Founder of the Church of Scotland and notable critic of Elizabeth I | John Knox | 18%
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| Popular author of "The Wasp Factory" | Iain M. Banks | 17%
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| Actor who starred as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones and Sergeant David Budd in Bodyguard | Richard Madden | 16%
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| Actor who starred as Eli Gold in The Good Wife, and is a leading voice for LGBTQ+ rights | Alan Cumming | 15%
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| As of 2025, this man currently serves as Scotland's First Minister | John Swinney | 15%
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| Physicist best known for developing his theory of electromagnetic radiation | James Clerk Maxwell | 14%
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| Conservative journalist and broadcaster who has edited both the Sunday Times and the Spectator magazine | Andrew Neil | 12%
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| In 1999, this Labour politician became the inaugural First Minister of Scotland | Donald Dewar | 12%
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| Former UK Secretary of State for Defence who served as Secretary General of NATO between 1999 and 2003 | George Robertson | 12%
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| Actor who starred as Dr. Alexander Isaacs in Resident Evil and Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones | Iain Glen | 11%
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| Actor known to many as police detective Steve Arnott in Line of Duty | Martin Compston | 11%
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| Army officer who founded the Special Air Service during the Second World War | David Stirling | 10%
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| Christian athlete whose running career was depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire | Eric Liddell | 10%
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| During the COVID-19 pandemic, this future First Minister served as Scotland's Health Secretary | Humza Yousaf | 10%
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| 18th biographer famed for his work "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | James Boswell | 9%
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| Early Modern mathematician who popularised the use of the decimal point and is credited with the invention of logarithms | John Napier | 8%
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| Olympic rower who currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Glasgow | Katherine Grainger | 8%
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| 'Tartan Noir' crime author whose books were adapted into the BBC thriller series Wire in the Blood | Val McDermid | 8%
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| Physicist credited with the discovery of carbon dioxide | Joseph Black | 6%
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| Between 1978 and 1983, this serial killer murdered at least twelve people at his home in Muswell Hill | Dennis Nilsen | 5%
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| 18th century polymath sometimes known as the 'Father of Modern Geology' | James Hutton | 4%
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| Singer-songwriter whose debut album was "Erratic Cinematic" | Gerry Cinnamon | 3%
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| Supermarket tycoon and education patron after whom colleges at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities are named | Isaac Wolfson | 3%
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| Dunbartonshire writer and surgeon best remembered for his 1771 novel "The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker" | Tobias Smollett | 3%
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| Pakistani-Glaswegian restauranteur credited with inventing the chicken tikka masala | Ali Ahmed Aslam | 2%
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