| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Largest town in East Ayrshire and the administrative centre of the council area | Kilmarnock | 85%
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| Darvel born scientist and microbiologist who is best known for his discovery of penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 83%
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| The only motorway in East Ayrshire | M77 | 72%
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| Andrew Fisher, born in Crosshouse, went on to be Prime Minister of this distant country | Australia | 67%
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| River which begins near Loudounhill and enters the sea near its namesake town | Irvine | 63%
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| Centrally located town at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the Lugar Water | Cumnock | 60%
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| Grocer from East Ayrshire, who gave his name to what would become one of the world's most famous whisky brand names, despite being a teetotaler himself | Johnnie Walker | 58%
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| One of these iconic WW2 fighter aircraft crashed into the above loch in 1941. It was recovered in 1982 and subequently restored | Spitfire | 55%
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| Freshwater loch in the south of East Ayrshire | Loch Doon | 53%
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| Born in Riccarton in 1764, Sir James Shaw later took up this leading civic post in London | Lord Mayor | 45%
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| Glenbuck is the birthplace of this football manager who is best known for the success he brought to Liverpool | Bill Shankly | 35%
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| Astronomical observatory, located on a hilltop due to its low levels of light pollution | Scottish {Dark} {Sky} Observatory | 30%
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| East Ayrshire rock band whose album 'Opposites' topped the UK Albums Chart | Biffy Clyro | 23%
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| Biographer and Laird of Auchinleck who is best known for 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' | James Boswell | 17%
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| John Boyd Orr, of Kilmaurs, was a teacher, doctor, physiologist and politician who was awarded this Nobel Prize for his scientific research into nutrition | Peace | 17%
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