Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Largest town on the Orkney Islands | Kirkwall | 98%
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449 foot red sandstone sea stack off the island of Hoy | Old {Man} of Hoy | 91%
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Name given to someone from the Orkney Islands | Orcadian | 88%
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Remarkable prehistoric village which is one of Orkney's most-visited ancient sites | {Skara} Brae | 86%
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Sheltered body of water in the Orkneys which was the main British naval base during WW2 | Scapa Flow | 84%
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Ornate Catholic place of worship in the Orkney Islands, built during WW2 by POWs | {Italian} Chapel | 81%
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Second-most populous town which has a ferry service to Scrabster on the mainland | Stromness | 79%
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Protective causeways linking some of the islands, intended to prevent enemy submarines from entering the above body of water and attacking the fleet | {Churchill} Barriers | 77%
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Small, fertile island, to the north of the island of Westray. The two islands are connected by the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world at under two minutes | {Papa} Westray | 74%
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The village of Burwick on this island is the closest Orkney harbour to the Scottish mainland | South {Ronaldsay} | 74%
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Orkney born physician Thomas Stewart Traill edited the 8th edition of this prestigious encyclopaedia while a Professor at the University of Edinburgh | Encyclopaedia {Britannica} | 72%
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Large stone circle dating from the late Neolithic period, which has a ditch and causeways | {Ring} of Brodgar | 72%
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Britain’s most northerly Cathedral, known as the ‘Light in the North’ | St. Magnus | 67%
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In October 1939, this battleship, moored in the Orkneys, was sunk by a German U-boat | Royal Oak | 51%
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According to the 'Orkneyinga Saga' this man was the most powerful of all the earls of Orkney | Thorfinn the {Mighty} | 40%
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