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Answer
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What popular sport is thought to have originated in Scotland in the 15th-century?
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Golf
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What historical Scottish hero was portrayed by Mel Gibson in "Braveheart"?
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William Wallace
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What antibiotic did Alexander Fleming discover by accident in 1928?
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Penicillin
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Who wrote the "Wealth of Nations" and is considered to be the "father of economics"?
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Adam Smith
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Which one of Shakespeare's plays was set in Scotland?
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MacBeth
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What people invaded Scotland in the 8th-century?
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Vikings
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What fictional detective first appeared in print in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887?
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Sherlock Holmes
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What was the ancient Roman name for Scotland?
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Caledonia
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The words in "Flower of Scotland" refer to the Scottish victory at what battle?
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Battle of Bannockburn
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What group of Celtic-speaking peoples inhabited eastern and northern Scotland during the British Iron Age?
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Picts
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What king led the Scottish to independence in the 14th-century?
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Robert the Bruce
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Which Scottish king became king of England and Ireland in 1603 - thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms?
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James VI
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Which Queen of Scots was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586 - and was beheaded the following year?
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Mary
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What Canadian province briefly became a Scottish colony between 1629–1632?
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Nova Scotia
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What treaty established the border between England and Scotland in 1237?
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Treaty of York
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What machine did James Watt greatly improve in the 18th century, helping to spark the Industrial Revolution?
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Steam Engine
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What Scottish Labour politician served as Prime Minister between 1997–2007?
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Tony Blair
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What Scottish Enlightenment philosopher famously said that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions"?
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David Hume
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What Scottish tennis player won the Wimbledon championship in 2013 and 2016?
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Andy Murray
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What traditional province of Ireland was settled by Scots starting in the 17th century?
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Ulster
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Not the only funny thing they teach you over there.
Is there any convention to Mac names though or is it just random? Macpherson but MacGyver, Macbeth but MacBook...
(e.g. Gordon Brown - Scottish family, Scottish constituency, Scottish accent, Prime Minister of the UK 2007 - 2010...)
I just made the point that the PM after him, Brown, has a very well-known and deeply-rooted Scottish identity.
The lack of general awareness is probably 99% to do with his accent. But as any fule kno, the poshest Scots talk with the same accent as the poshest English people, and Tony Blair is nothing if not a total posho. He went to Fettes, after all. I watched a programme not long ago on BBC Alba where they were talking to the Countess of somewhere in the north-west, and she sounded as English as English could be (no Gaelic of course).