Fascinating Scotland! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Campbeltown

This old fishing town is situated on the Kintyre Peninsula on the west coast of Scotland. The distillery of this particular product in this location is named the "Springbank Distillery". It produces three different whiskys, one of which, is the one named in the question.
Carradale is a small but beautiful fishing village near Campbeltown which does not produce whisky.
The ancient parish of Cathcart is now a suburb in the south-side of the city of Glasgow. It was the original base of the prestigious Cathcart family, whose hereditary seat was Cathcart Castle.
Cumbernauld, a new town, is in the centre of Scotland in the county of North Lanarkshire. Its name derives from the Gaelic Cumar-nan-Alt which means 'the Meeting of the Waters'.

Answer: The Isle of Skye

After her adventures with the Bonnie Prince, she married Captain Alan Macdonald of Kingsburgh and they emigrated to North Carolina in USA. He took part in the 'American War of Independence' and was imprisoned. Flora returned home to Scotland. She died at Kingsburgh, Isle of Skye (Eilean a' Cheň - or "Isle of Mist") at the ripe old age of 68 and was buried there.
She was born into the Macdonald Clan in 1722 on the small island of South Uist.
She was at school in the capital city of Edinburgh for a time.
She was living on the Isle of Benbecula (Gaelic name: Beinn na Faoghla meaning "the mountain of the ford"), when she met the 'Bonnie Prince', which was when she was approximately 24 years old.

Answer: Isle of Cumbrae

This island also known as Great Cumbrae. It is four miles south by ferry from the popular seaside town of Largs situated in the body of water named the Firth of Clyde. It is famous for day trips by west-coast Scots folk and especially Glaswegians (from Glasgow).
Wee Cumbrae (or Little Cumbrae) is the neighbouring island and like its bigger neighbor has been inhabited from end of the ice age.
St Kilda is an island in the Outer Hebrides and not visited by many humans as it is famous for a sea bird colony.
Isle of Dogs is an English peninsula on the River Thames in the East-End of London!

Answer: Mull of Kintyre

Not only is it a bit of wild Scottish land, but also the subject of a hit song from 1970s with the same name, written and performed by a music mega-star! At that time he lived very near to this real piece of Scottish coastline!
The actual whirlpool is caused when the main flood of water flowing northwards passing by this piece of land and it then sucking the water out of the nearby Clyde Estuary, and traveling towards the 'Sound of Jura' then passing through to the Gulf of Corryvreckan which results in this unusual, natural occurrence! Apparently, there are organised boat trips to see this.
Burghead is a small fishing town with unspoilt, wild coastline on the Moray Firth on the north-east of Scotland.
Duck Bay Marina is a tourist centre on the "Bonny banks of Loch Lomond" in the Dumbartonshire region.
Seamill, in the region of West Kilbride, is a small town with a beautiful, sand beach on the edge of the Firth of Clyde on the west-coast of Scotland. It is popular in the summer for eating ice cream, sunbathing and building sandcastles! The Isle of Arran can be seen from here on a clear day across the water.

Answer: Dunnet Head

This is a peninsula that makes it the most northern bit of mainland Scotland (and Britain)! It has a lighthouse built by the grandfather of "Robert Louis Stevenson"!
John O' Groats, in Caithness is the most northern town in mainland Scotland (and Britain). However, it is not the most northerly point of land, contrary to popular misconception!
Lands End, is the most southerly point of land in Britain and is in England! The Mull of Kintyre is a west coast peninsula!

Answer: Dundrennan Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

In 1568, this was the place where she made the fateful decision to go to England to get help from her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. She hoped to regain her throne with her cousin's influence. She left the abbey and rode into England and was promptly taken prisoner, her cousin saw her as a threat to the English Throne. Mary was eventually executed after a long imprisonment, in 1587.
Lochleven Castle, in is on an Island in a loch named Loch Leven. This is where Mary was imprisoned for a time in 1567 and where she was forced to abdicate in favor of her baby, the future king James VI.
Linlithgow Palace, where she was born in 1542, in the county of West Lothian and 15 miles west of Edinburgh.
She was crowned Queen of Scotland at Stirling Castle in the county of Stirling in 1543 at the tender age of just 9 months!

Answer: Ailsa Craig

This island is a bird sanctuary nowadays. It has an automated lighthouse, the curling stone quarry rich with the special granite called Ailsite has been long since unused. The first record of a curling match in 1541 are stored in Paisley abbey in Renfrewshire.
Daavar Island is a small island in Campbeltown Loch just off the east-coast of Kintyre, in Argyll and Bute. It is also famous for its seven caves. One of those caves has a cave painting showing "The Crucifixion" by Archibald MacKinnon painted in 1887 after a dream!
Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) is in north east England and is just off the Northumberland coast. It was founded by St. Aidan. It was a target for Viking raiders in its early years!
Fladda is an island which had a slate quarry and it lies off the west-coast of Scotland in Argyll and Bute.

Answer: Elderslie

This "Brave Heart" said to have been born in 1270, is known in history as the Knight of Ellerslie or Elderslie (the latter being the modern name). Both these names have the same meaning which is "field of the Elder trees".
Paisley, a town very near to his birthplace, also in county of Renfrewshire ("The Cradle of the Stewarts") which houses many of the tombs of the High Stewards in the ancient abbey. Later it was a Mill town where the famous "Paisley Pattern" shawl was produced.

Kilmarnock is a town in Ayrshire, and has a house in its close vicinity named Ellerslie, some claims have been made that this was William Wallace's birthplace but it was not recorded to have been built before 1835. 'Johnnie Walker' made his famous "Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky" which eventually became "Johnnie Walker's".
Helensburgh is an attractive seaside location on the River Clyde Estuary. It dates back to approximately 1600 at the time of the construction of Ardencaple Castle on the west side of the town. John Logie Baird, the inventor of television was born there in 1888.

Answer: Tain

This spirit is made here. The town is thought to have been founded originally as a Viking settlement. It has one of the smallest distilleries in The Highlands and it employs "The Sixteen Men of Tain" to produce it!
"Glen Elgin" is one of the many whiskys which are distilled near Elgin. This is a city rich in Scottish history, it has a museum and an old ruined castle on a hill. There is also a beautiful cathedral!
"Talasker" is from the only distillery in the Isle of Sky. This island has evidence of settlements dating back to approximately 6500 BC in the Meolithic middle-stone age times. There is much to see there, Cairns, Standing Stones, Brochs, old gravestones which all represent the habitation of Scots, Picts and the Vikings at various times in history!
"Jamiesons" is Irish whisky and is distilled in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland!

Answer: Milngavie to Fort William

This is a famous walking trip which many tourists undertake when visiting Scotland. It begins in the suburb of Glasgow, Milngavie and ends 93 miles later, further north, in Fort William, at the foot of 'Ben Nevis' the highest mountain in Scotland and Britain!

Drymen, Lochleven, Crianlarich, Tyndrum, Loch Lomond and Rowerdennan are all places along the way, between the start and finish points of this walk!