Bonnie Scotland Trivia Quiz

Answer: East Lothian

Although Musselburgh is the biggest town, the administrative capital of East Lothian is Haddington, hence the original name of the county. With an area of just 257 square miles, East Lothian is only slightly larger than the Isle of Man.
Famous East Lothians include John Muir, the father of the U.S. National Park system (born in Dunbar in 1838), former British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour (born in Whittingehame in 1848) and John Knox, the founder of Presbyterianism (born in Haddington in 1514).
The photo shows a dovecote in East Linton. Commonly built on estates to provide meat during the long, cold winters, it was fashionable to demonstrate your wealth by building particularly ostentatious dovecotes. This one, a protected monument, is one of the best.

Answer: Dundee

With a population of just under 150,000 (2011 Census), Dundee is Scotland's fourth-largest city but its second-mostly densely populated. The Firth of Tay is the estuary for Scotland's longest river where it empties into the North Sea. The photograph shows the Tay Rail Bridge, which crosses from Dundee to the suburb of Wormit in Fife.

Answer: Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute covers an area of 2,668 square miles, about half the size of The Bahamas. Bordering Highland, Perth & Kinross, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire, the county includes territory on the mainland as well as the southern islands of the Inner Hebrides.

The southernmost of these islands is Islay, the home of eight whiskey distilleries including Ardbeg, Lagavulin and Laphroaig, widely considered the most intensely-flavored of all brands.

Answer: Grampians

Ben Nevis, an Anglicization on the Scottish Gaelic name 'Beinn Nibheis' (meaning "malicious mountain"), is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountain range, near to the town of Fort William. A popular destination for climbers of all abilities, Ben Nevis attracts more than 100,000 ascents annually.

Answer: River Forth

The Tay is Scotland's longest river, flowing 117 miles from the mountain Ben Lui in the Scottish Highlands to the North Sea. The Spey (107 miles long) and the Clyde (106 miles long) are the only two other rivers exceeding 100 miles.
The River Forth flows 65 miles from the freshwater Loch Ard in the "Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park" in Stirling to the North Sea. Just a few miles west of Edinburgh city center, if flows under the famous 2.5-mile long 1890s cantilever railway bridge shown in the photograph.

Answer: Paisley

Originally the center of the weaving industry, the town or Paisley is part of the contiguous Glasgow urban area, lying just a few miles west of that city's center.
Famous people born in Paisley include the actors Gerard Butler and Tim Conti, soccer star Archie Gemmill and King Robert II of Scotland.
The photograph shows Paisley Abbey, a former Cluniac monastery and the birthplace of the aforementioned Robert II in 1316.

Answer: Caerlaverock Castle

Caerlaverock Castle is located on the edge of the "Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve" on Scotland's southern coast. Besieged by the English during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the late 13th and early 14th Centuries, it has been partially destroyed and reconstructed numerous times. Described as "the most ambitious early classical domestic architecture in Scotland", Caerlaverock Castle was abandoned in the 1800s and is now a protected building and a popular tourist attraction.

Answer: Clackmannanshire

The name Clackmannanshire derives from the Scottish Gaelic name 'Siorrachd Chlach Mhannainn' (meaning "Stone of Manau"). The county's historic center was Clackmannan but Alloa had outgrown it by the early 1800s and replaced it as capital. Surrounded by Perthshire, Kinross-shire, Stirlingshire and Fife, Clackmannanshire has an area of just 61 square miles, which is about the same as Liechtenstein. The photograph shows Alloa Tower, the surviving part of the medieval residence of the Erskine family. Dating to the 14th-Century, the tower is one of the earliest and largest of Scottish tower houses noted for their thick walls.

Answer: Perth

The administrative capital of the Perth & Kinross council area and the historic county of Perthshire, the city of Perth stands of an area of high ground above the flood plain of the River Tay. This area, where the river can be crossed at low tide, has been occupied by humans for more than 8,000 years. The medieval village of Scone, on the outskirts of Perth, was the royal centre for the Alban Kingdom in the 9th Century and Perth was granted the status of "Royal Burgh" by King William in the 12th Century. With a population of 50,000 (2011 Census), the Scottish Perth is a fraction of the size of its antipodean namesake, the capital of Western Australia, which at the same time was home to almost two million.
Known as Saint John's Toun (its main church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist) until the mid-1600s, Perth's soccer team is today still called Saint Johnstone. It acquired the "Fair City" moniker following the 1828 publication of Sir Walter Scott's story "The Fair Maid of Perth".
Other, smaller communities named Perth can also be found in Canada (in New Brunswick and Ontario) and in five U.S. states (Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, New York and North Dakota). There is also a Perth River in New Zealand.
Of the alternatives, Irvine is a town of 40,000 in North Ayrshire, whilst Irvine, California had a population in excess of 210,000 at the time of the 2010 Census. Scotland's Hamilton in South Lanarkshire had a population of 53,000 (2011 Census), whilst Hamilton, Ontario was home to more than 500,000 (2011 Census) and was Canada's 10th-largest city. By contrast the Hamilton that is the capital of Bermuda is one of the world's smallest capital
cities with a population of barely 1,000. Aberdeen is the only one of the four options where the original remains the largest -- Scotland's city in home to 220,000 whereas its namesakes in Sierra Leone, South Africa, Hong Kong, Australia, a half dozen in Canada and in 16 different U.S. states, are all significantly smaller -- the largest is South Dakota's third-largest city but is still home to only 26,000 (2010 Census).

Answer: Aberdeen

A casual study of architecture around Aberdeen makes it unsurprising that the city is nicknamed "The Granite City" or "The Grey City". The Marischal College building, dating to 1835, is the world's second-largest granite building. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, the city has also been known as "The Energy Capital of Europe".
The area between the mouths of the rivers Dee and Don has a history of human settlement dating back to pre-historic times. King David I granted the city "Royal Burgh" status in the early 12th-Century. Occupied by the English during the "Wars of Scottish Independence", Robert the Bruce laid siege to Aberdeen Castle, rasing it to the ground in 1308.