Select the Scotsmen Trivia Quiz

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Alexander Fleming was born in the town of Darvel in Scotland in 1881. He was a doctor and microbiologist who is famous for discovering the antibiotic penicillin. He was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

James Clerk Maxwell was also a scientist, although his area of interest was Physics. Maxwell was born in Edinburgh in 1831, and studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge. He developed a series of equations relating to electromagnetism which underpin how many modern technologies work, including electric motors, radio waves, lasers, and many more.

William Wallace was born in around 1270 in the Renfrewshire area of Scotland. He is celebrated as a hero in Scotland for his role in leading Scottish forces against the English during the First War of Scottish Independence. Wallace's story has been told in many works of fiction including the 1995 movie 'Braveheart'.

Alex Ferguson was born in Glasgow in 1941. He played professional football for a number of Scottish clubs before starting his career as a manager in 1974. He first had success as a manager while at Aberdeen winning multiple trophies between 1978 and 1986. In 1986 he was appointed manager of the English club Manchester United, and would go on to manage them until his retirement in 2013. Ferguson won 38 trophies with Manchester United including multiple Premier League and FA Cup titles as well as winning the UEFA Champions League twice.

J. M. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir in the Scottish county of Angus in 1860. He is best known for writing the story 'Peter and Wendy' (1904), the basis for the play 'Peter Pan', but he also wrote plays and novels for adults.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868. He spent most of his life living in the city and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He was an artist and architecture and designed a number of buildings and interiors for the city of Glasgow.

John Logie Baird was born in the town of Helensburgh in 1888. Baird is regarded as the inventor of the television, demonstrating the world's first working TV system in 1926.

John Muir is known as the 'Father of the National Parks' and was instrumental in helping to establish Yosemite National Park in the USA in 1890. Despite his connections to the US, Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland, emigrating to the US with his family when he was 11 years old in 1838 .

David Livingstone was born in the town of Blantyre in Scotland in 1813. He studied medicine and worked as a doctor but is perhaps best well known for his explorations in Africa, becoming the first European to see the waterfalls on the Zambezi that he named Victoria Falls.

John Loudon McAdam was born in Ayr in 1756. He was a civil engineer who developed a new way of building roads which featured a hard, durable top coating. This method made use of tar to hold the stones on the road surface together giving birth to the name tarmac for road surfaces as a shortening of the name 'tarmacadam' combining the word tar with Mcadam's surname.

Of the wrong answers, William McKinley was the 25th President of the US, George Stephenson was a railway engineer from northern England, Barry McGuigan was an Irish Boxer, Samuel Morse an American inventor and Seamus Heaney an Irish poet.