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Monday, 9 November 2026 · Boreen Abroad: Scotland

Journey #028 answers

Every answer that counted, from the commonest to the rarest. Not played it yet? Play this journey first.

Question 1 · Geography

Name a place in Scotland you can fly to.

Any place in Scotland with an airport or airstrip that takes passenger flights today, scheduled or not. Type the town, island or airport.

Robin10 km

  • Edinburgh
  • Glasgow

Hedgehog25 km

  • Aberdeen
  • Inverness

Red Fox40 km

  • Orkney (Kirkwall)
  • Prestwick (Glasgow Prestwick)
  • Shetland (Sumburgh)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Barra
  • Dundee
  • Islay
  • Skye (Broadford)
  • Stornoway (Lewis)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Benbecula
  • Campbeltown (Kintyre)
  • Fair Isle
  • Fife (Glenrothes)
  • Mull (Glenforsa)
  • Oban
  • Papa Westray
  • Perth (Scone)
  • Tiree
  • Westray
  • Wick

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Coll
  • Colonsay
  • Cumbernauld
  • Dornoch
  • Eday
  • Foula
  • North Ronaldsay
  • Out Skerries
  • Papa Stour
  • Plockton
  • Sanday
  • Stronsay
  • Tingwall
  • Unst
  • Whalsay

Question 2 · Music & entertainment

Name a Scottish singer or band.

A singer or musician born or raised in Scotland or with a parent from there, or a band formed there or fronted by someone born or raised there. Any era.

Robin10 km

  • Lewis Capaldi
  • The Proclaimers

Hedgehog25 km

  • Paolo Nutini

Red Fox40 km

  • Rod Stewart
  • Susan Boyle

Irish Hare55 km

  • Amy Macdonald
  • Annie Lennox
  • Calvin Harris
  • Gerry Cinnamon
  • Lulu
  • Simple Minds

Red Squirrel75 km

  • AC/DC
  • Andy Stewart
  • Barbara Dickson
  • Bay City Rollers
  • Belle and Sebastian
  • Biffy Clyro
  • Big Country
  • Billy Connolly
  • Callum Beattie
  • Chvrches
  • Darius
  • Deacon Blue
  • Del Amitri
  • Donovan
  • Emeli Sandé
  • Eric Bogle
  • Eurythmics
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Franz Ferdinand
  • Garbage
  • Gerry Rafferty
  • Harry Lauder
  • Isla Grant
  • Jimmy Somerville
  • KT Tunstall
  • Lena Martell
  • Lisa McHugh
  • Mark Knopfler
  • Midge Ure
  • Nathan Evans
  • Nazareth
  • Nina Nesbitt
  • Primal Scream
  • Runrig
  • Sheena Easton
  • Skerryvore
  • Snow Patrol
  • Texas
  • The Corries
  • The Fratellis
  • The Waterboys
  • Tom Walker
  • Travis
  • Wet Wet Wet

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Admiral Fallow
  • Aereogramme
  • Al Stewart
  • Alan Cumming
  • Albannach
  • Alestorm
  • Alex Ligertwood
  • Altered Images
  • Aly Bain
  • Amy Belle
  • Andrew Johnston
  • Andy Irvine
  • Andy White
  • Aneka
  • Angelfish
  • Anna Meredith
  • Anne Martin
  • Arab Strap
  • Archie Fisher
  • Average White Band
  • Aztec Camera
  • B. A. Robertson
  • Barry Can't Swim
  • Battlefield Band
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  • Beggars Opera
  • Beluga Lagoon
  • Bert Jansch
  • Billy Boyd
  • Bis
  • Bishop Briggs
  • Blazin' Fiddles
  • Bleed from Within
  • BMX Bandits
  • Boards of Canada
  • Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band
  • Boys of the Lough
  • Breabach
  • Brian Robertson
  • Brìghde Chaimbeul
  • Brògeal
  • Bronski Beat
  • Brooke Combe
  • Calum Bowie
  • Calum Kennedy
  • Camera Obscura
  • Campbeltown Pipe Band
  • Capercaillie
  • Charlie and the Bhoys
  • Chris Rainbow
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  • Clann An Drumma
  • Cocteau Twins
  • Cold Chisel
  • Colin Hay
  • Corto.alto
  • Cowboy Hunters
  • Craig Armstrong
  • Craig Logan
  • Cream
  • Danny Wilson
  • Davey Johnstone
  • David Byrne
  • David Knopfler
  • David Sneddon
  • Dead Pony
  • Denis Sulta
  • Dick Gaughan
  • Dire Straits
  • Doogie White
  • Dot Allison
  • Dougie MacLean
  • Dougie Thomson
  • Dylan John Thomas
  • Eddi Reader
  • Edwyn Collins
  • Elephant Sessions
  • Eric Woolfson
  • Erland Cooper
  • Eve Graham
  • Evelyn Glennie
  • Ewan MacColl
  • Ewan McVicar
  • Fairground Attraction
  • Fatherson
  • Fergus McCreadie
  • FFS
  • Fiction Factory
  • Finley Quaye
  • Fish
  • Frankie Miller
  • Frankie Poullain
  • Frightened Rabbit
  • Gallagher and Lyle
  • Gentle Giant
  • George Donaldson
  • George Young
  • Glasgow Police Pipe Band
  • Glasvegas
  • Glen Daly
  • Gnoss
  • Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
  • Grant Kirkhope
  • Gun
  • Guy Berryman
  • Hamish Hawk
  • Hamish Imlach
  • Hannah Laing
  • Helen Marnie
  • High Fade
  • Hipsway
  • Howie B
  • Hudson Mohawke
  • Hue and Cry
  • Ian Bairnson
  • Ian Stewart
  • Idlewild
  • Ímar
  • Inveraray and District Pipe Band
  • Iona Fyfe
  • Isla St Clair
  • Isobel Buchanan
  • Isobel Campbell
  • Ivor Cutler
  • Jack Bruce
  • Jack Buchanan
  • Jackie Leven
  • Jackmaster
  • Jacob Alon
  • Jai McDowall
  • James Arthur
  • James Dewar
  • James MacMillan
  • James Yorkston
  • Jean Redpath
  • Jethro Tull
  • Jim Diamond
  • Jimmy Bain
  • Jimmy Barnes
  • Jimmy Logan
  • Jimmy McCulloch
  • Jimmy Shand
  • Joe Strummer
  • Joesef
  • John Barrowman
  • John Martyn
  • John McCusker
  • John McGeoch
  • Johnny Reid
  • Josef K
  • Julie Fowlis
  • Karine Polwart
  • Karl Denver
  • Kathleen MacInnes
  • Kathryn Joseph
  • Katie Gregson-MacLeod
  • Kelly Marie
  • Kenneth McKellar
  • Kerr Mercer
  • King Creosote
  • Kode9
  • Lau
  • Lawrence Gowan
  • Lena Zavaroni
  • Leon Jackson
  • LF System
  • Life Without Buildings
  • Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  • Loki
  • Lonnie Donegan
  • Lorne Balfe
  • Love and Money
  • Lucia & the Best Boys
  • Maggie Bell
  • Maggie Reilly
  • Mànran
  • Marillion
  • Marmaduke Duke
  • Marmalade
  • Martyn Bennett
  • Matt McGinn
  • Men at Work
  • Michael Marra
  • Michael McGovern
  • Michelle McManus
  • Middle of the Road
  • Mike Barson
  • Mogwai
  • Moira Anderson
  • Mull Historical Society
  • Mylo
  • Neil Murray
  • Neil Reid
  • Nicholas McDonald
  • Nicky Spence
  • Nicola Benedetti
  • Nightcrawlers
  • Niteworks
  • Oi Polloi
  • Old Blind Dogs
  • Orange Juice
  • Ossian
  • Owen Paul
  • Paige Turley
  • Pallas
  • Party Cannon
  • Patrick Doyle
  • Peat and Diesel
  • Peatbog Faeries
  • Peter and Gordon
  • Peter Capaldi
  • Phil Cunningham
  • Pilot
  • Project Smok
  • Rab Noakes
  • Rachel Sermanni
  • Rebecca Pidgeon
  • Red Hot Chilli Pipers
  • Rianne Downey
  • Ricky Gardiner
  • Robert Wilson
  • Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra
  • Rura
  • Rustie
  • Sam Gellaitry
  • Sandi Thom
  • Scocha
  • Scott Fitzgerald
  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra
  • ScottishPower Pipe Band
  • Sheila Walsh
  • Shelagh McDonald
  • Shooglenifty
  • Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band
  • Silibil N' Brains
  • Silly Wizard
  • Siobhan Miller
  • Skipinnish
  • Slam
  • Slik
  • Sons and Daughters
  • Sorley the Bard
  • Stealers Wheel
  • Steven Osborne
  • Stevie McCrorie
  • Stiltskin
  • Stone the Crows
  • Strawberry Switchblade
  • String Driven Thing
  • Stuart Sutcliffe
  • Swim School
  • Sydney Devine
  • Talisk
  • Talking Heads
  • Teenage Fanclub
  • The Alexander Brothers
  • The Almighty
  • The Associates
  • The Beta Band
  • The Blue Nile
  • The Bluebells
  • The Communards
  • The Delgados
  • The Dykeenies
  • The Exploited
  • The Humblebums
  • The Incredible String Band
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • The KLF
  • The Krankies
  • The LaFontaines
  • The McCalmans
  • The Mirror Trap
  • The Pastels
  • The Poets
  • The Reindeer Section
  • The Rezillos
  • The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
  • The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
  • The Shamen
  • The Silencers
  • The Singing Kettle
  • The Skids
  • The Snuts
  • The Soup Dragons
  • The Supernaturals
  • The Sutherland Brothers
  • The Sweet
  • The Tannahill Weavers
  • The Tourists
  • The Twilight Sad
  • The Vaselines
  • The View
  • The Wake
  • The Yummy Fur
  • Thea Musgrave
  • Tide Lines
  • Trashcan Sinatras
  • Twin Atlantic
  • Ultravox
  • Vale of Atholl Pipe Band
  • Valtos
  • Vistas
  • Vukovi
  • We Were Promised Jetpacks
  • Will Fyffe
  • Wolfstone
  • Wrest
  • Young Fathers

Question 3 · Sport

Name a Scottish football club.

Any club that has ever played in the Scottish League (now the SPFL), or plays in 2026–27's Highland League, Lowland League or women's top flight.

Robin10 km

  • Celtic
  • Rangers

Hedgehog25 km

  • Aberdeen

Red Fox40 km

  • Hearts (Heart of Midlothian)
  • Hibernian

Irish Hare55 km

  • Dundee
  • Dundee United
  • Kilmarnock
  • Motherwell
  • Partick Thistle
  • Queen of the South
  • St Johnstone
  • St Mirren

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Airdrieonians
  • Albion Rovers
  • Alloa Athletic
  • Annan Athletic
  • Arbroath
  • Ayr United
  • Berwick Rangers
  • Brechin City
  • Clyde
  • Clydebank
  • Cowdenbeath
  • Dumbarton
  • Dunfermline Athletic
  • East Fife
  • East Kilbride
  • East Stirlingshire
  • Edinburgh City
  • Elgin City
  • Falkirk
  • Forfar Athletic
  • Glasgow City (women's top flight)
  • Greenock Morton
  • Gretna (and today's Gretna 2008)
  • Hamilton Academical
  • Inverness Caledonian Thistle
  • Livingston (Meadowbank Thistle until 1995)
  • Montrose
  • Peterhead
  • Queen's Park
  • Raith Rovers
  • Ross County
  • Stenhousemuir
  • Stirling Albion
  • Stranraer
  • Third Lanark

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Abercorn
  • Armadale
  • Arthurlie
  • Auchinleck Talbot
  • Ayr Parkhouse
  • Banks o' Dee
  • Bathgate
  • Beith Juniors (and the old Beith)
  • Bo'ness United (and the old Bo'ness)
  • Bonnyrigg Rose
  • Brora Rangers
  • Broxburn Athletic
  • Broxburn United
  • Buckie Thistle
  • Caledonian Braves
  • Cambuslang
  • Civil Service Strollers
  • Clachnacuddin
  • Clackmannan
  • Cove Rangers
  • Cowlairs
  • Cumbernauld Colts
  • Cumnock Juniors
  • Dalbeattie Star
  • Deveronvale
  • Dumbarton Harp
  • Dundee Wanderers
  • Dunipace
  • Dykehead
  • Formartine United
  • Forres Mechanics
  • Fraserburgh
  • Gala Fairydean Rovers
  • Galston
  • Helensburgh
  • Hill of Beath Hawthorn
  • Huntly
  • Invergordon
  • Inverurie Loco Works
  • Johnstone Burgh (and the old Johnstone)
  • Keith
  • Kelty Hearts
  • Kilwinning Rangers
  • King's Park
  • Largs Thistle
  • Leith Athletic
  • Linlithgow Rose
  • Linthouse
  • Lochee United
  • Lochgelly United
  • Lossiemouth
  • Mid-Annandale
  • Musselburgh Athletic
  • Nairn County
  • Newton Stewart
  • Nithsdale Wanderers
  • Northern (Glasgow, 1893–94)
  • Peebles Rovers
  • Pollok
  • Port Glasgow Athletic
  • Renfrew
  • Renton
  • Rothes
  • Royal Albert
  • Solway Star
  • St Bernard's
  • Strathspey Thistle
  • The Spartans
  • Thistle (Glasgow, 1893–94)
  • Tranent
  • Troon
  • Turriff United
  • University of Stirling
  • Vale of Leven
  • Wick Academy

Question 4 · Irish life

Name a surname beginning with Mac or Mc.

Any Irish or Scottish Mac surname (Mac, Mc, M' or Mag, all meaning 'son of'), in English, Irish or Gaelic. O' and Fitz names don't count.

Robin10 km

  • McDonald

Hedgehog25 km

  • McCarthy

Red Fox40 km

  • McGregor
  • McLaughlin

Irish Hare55 km

  • McGrath
  • McGuinness
  • McKenna
  • McMahon
  • McNamara

Red Squirrel75 km

  • MacAlpine
  • MacArthur
  • Macaulay
  • MacBeth
  • MacDougall
  • MacFarlane
  • Mackay
  • MacKenzie
  • Mackintosh
  • MacLachlan
  • MacLean
  • MacLeod
  • Macmillan
  • MacPherson
  • MacRae
  • McAleese
  • McAllister
  • McAteer
  • McAuliffe
  • McAvoy
  • McBride
  • McCabe
  • McCaffrey
  • McCain
  • McCall
  • McCann
  • McCartney
  • McCloskey
  • McCoist
  • McConaughey
  • McConnell
  • McCool
  • McCormack
  • McCormick
  • McCourt
  • McCoy
  • McCready
  • McCreevy
  • McCrory
  • McCullough
  • McCusker
  • McDaid
  • McDermott
  • McDonagh
  • McDonnell
  • McDowell
  • McElroy
  • McEnroe
  • McEntee
  • McEvoy
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  • McEwan
  • McFadden
  • McGarry
  • McGeady
  • McGee
  • McGettigan
  • McGill
  • McGinley
  • McGinn
  • McGlynn
  • McGoldrick
  • McGonagall
  • McGovern
  • McGowan
  • McGraw
  • McGuigan
  • McGuire
  • McHale
  • McHugh
  • McIlroy
  • McInerney
  • McInnes
  • McIntyre
  • McKee
  • McKeown
  • McKiernan
  • McKinley
  • McLaren
  • McManus
  • McNally
  • McNeill
  • McNulty
  • McQuaid
  • McQueen
  • McShane
  • McSweeney
  • McVitie
  • McWilliams

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Mac an Iomaire
  • Mac Con Iomaire
  • Mac Gearailt
  • Mac Giobúin
  • Mac Giolla
  • Mac Giolla Easpaig
  • Mac Giolla Phádraig
  • Mac Grianna
  • Mac Liammóir
  • Mac Muiris
  • Mac Niocaill
  • Mac Siúrtáin
  • Mac Stíofáin
  • MacAdam
  • MacAinsh
  • MacAlonie
  • MacAndie
  • MacAndrew
  • MacAra
  • MacAskin
  • MacAuslan
  • MacBain
  • MacBrady
  • MacBrayne
  • MacCaffie
  • MacCaig
  • MacCail
  • MacCallan
  • MacCalman
  • MacCambridge
  • MacCance
  • MacCandlish
  • MacCartan
  • MacCash
  • MacCaw
  • MacCheyne
  • MacClancy
  • MacClintock
  • MacCloy
  • MacClung
  • MacClure
  • MacCodrum
  • MacColl
  • MacCombie
  • MacConnachie
  • MacConsidine
  • MacCorquodale
  • MacCostello
  • MacCotter
  • MacCowan
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  • MacCracken
  • MacCraw
  • MacCrimmon
  • MacCrindle
  • MacCrone
  • MacCrossan
  • MacCuish
  • MacCurdy
  • MacCurtin
  • MacCutcheon
  • MacDarragh
  • MacDuff
  • MacDuffie
  • MacDunleavy
  • MacEachern
  • MacEgan
  • MacEnery
  • MacFarquhar
  • MacFater
  • MacFetridge
  • MacFirbis
  • MacGarva
  • MacGarvie
  • MacGeachie
  • MacGeorge
  • MacGeraghty
  • MacGibbon
  • MacGilchrist
  • MacGillivray
  • MacGlashan
  • MacGorman
  • MacGruer
  • MacGurkin
  • MacHaffie
  • MacHardy
  • MacHeth
  • MacIan
  • MacIlwraith
  • MacIndoe
  • MacInroy
  • MacIsaac
  • MacKail
  • MacKean
  • MacKechnie
  • MacKellaig
  • MacKendrick
  • MacKerlich
  • MacKerracher
  • MacKerras
  • MacKerron
  • MacKerrow
  • MacKessock
  • MacKettrick
  • Mackie
  • MacKillop
  • MacKim
  • Mackin
  • MacKinnie
  • MacKinven
  • MacKirdy
  • Mackle
  • MacLagan
  • MacLarty
  • MacLatchie
  • MacLaverty
  • Maclay
  • MacLeay
  • MacLehose
  • MacLeman
  • MacLucas
  • MacLullich
  • MacLung
  • MacLysaght
  • MacMartin
  • MacMaster
  • MacMeeken
  • MacMichael
  • MacMinn
  • MacMorran
  • MacMurchie
  • MacMurdo
  • MacMurray
  • MacMurrough
  • MacNair
  • MacNaughton
  • MacNee
  • MacNeilage
  • MacNeish
  • MacNicol
  • MacNiven
  • MacPhail
  • MacPhedran
  • MacPhee
  • MacQuarrie
  • MacQuilken
  • MacRaild
  • MacRannall
  • MacRitchie
  • MacRobbie
  • MacRobert
  • MacRury
  • MacShanly
  • MacSheehy
  • MacSomerled
  • MacSorley
  • MacSporran
  • MacSween
  • MacTaggart
  • MacTear
  • MacThomas
  • MacTurk
  • MacVannan
  • MacVarish
  • MacVean
  • MacVurich
  • MacWalter
  • MacWard
  • MacWattie
  • MacWhinnie
  • MacWhirter
  • McAdoo
  • McAfee
  • McAleer
  • McAlinden
  • McAnallen
  • McAnespie
  • McArdle
  • McAree
  • McAskill
  • McAtackney
  • McAtamney
  • McAvennie
  • McBrearty
  • McBrien
  • McBurney
  • McCafferty
  • McCague
  • McCallion
  • McCandless
  • McCarroll
  • McCarron
  • McCarville
  • McCaughan
  • McCaughey
  • McCaul
  • McCausland
  • McCay
  • McClafferty
  • McClelland
  • McClements
  • McClenaghan
  • McCluskey
  • McColgan
  • McCollum
  • McComb
  • McComiskey
  • McConalogue
  • McConkey
  • McConville
  • McCorley
  • McCorriston
  • McCorry
  • McCrohan
  • McCrudden
  • McCrum
  • McCrystal
  • McCue
  • McCurry
  • McDevitt
  • McDiarmid
  • McDyer
  • McEldowney
  • McEleney
  • McElhinney
  • McElligott
  • McEllistrim
  • McElvaney
  • McElvogue
  • McElwee
  • McEneaney
  • McEntegart
  • McErlean
  • McEvaddy
  • McEvilly
  • McFall
  • McFeely
  • McGahan
  • McGahern
  • McGarrigle
  • McGarrity
  • McGarvey
  • McGeehan
  • McGeeney
  • McGeever
  • McGeoghegan
  • McGeough
  • McGeown
  • McGilligan
  • McGilloway
  • McGillycuddy
  • McGing
  • McGinlay
  • McGinnity
  • McGinty
  • McGirr
  • McGivern
  • McGlade
  • McGlinchey
  • McGloin
  • McGlone
  • McGoey
  • McGorry
  • McGourty
  • McGrane
  • McGreal
  • McGrogan
  • McGrory
  • McGuane
  • McGuckian
  • McGuckin
  • McGuirk
  • McGurk
  • McHenry
  • McIlhagga
  • McIlhatton
  • McIlvanney
  • McIlwaine
  • McIver
  • McKeague
  • McKeever
  • McKellar
  • McKellen
  • McKelvey
  • McKendry
  • McKeogh
  • McKevitt
  • McKidd
  • McKinney
  • McKinnon
  • McKinsey
  • McKnight
  • McLeish
  • McLellan
  • McLennan
  • McLoone
  • McLornan
  • McManaman
  • McMenamin
  • McMonagle
  • McMorrow
  • McMullan
  • McMurphy
  • McNab
  • McNamee
  • McNeela
  • McNelis
  • McNicholas
  • McNiff
  • McNutt
  • McPartland
  • McPeake
  • McPhillips
  • McQuillan
  • McReynolds
  • McSharry
  • McShea
  • McSherry
  • McStay
  • McStravick
  • McSwiggan
  • McTavish
  • McTiernan
  • McTigue
  • McTimoney
  • McTominay
  • McVeigh
  • McVicar
  • McWeeney

Question 5 · Culture & language

Name a word in Irish (as Gaeilge) that Scottish Gaelic has too.

A word or phrase with the same root and meaning, close enough to recognise written down. Places and festivals count; people's names don't.

Robin10 km

  • Sláinte (slàinte: cheers, health)

Hedgehog25 km

  • Fáilte (fàilte, ceud mìle fàilte: welcome)

Red Fox40 km

  • Go raibh maith agat (gun robh math agad: thank you)
  • Uisce beatha (uisge-beatha: whisky, the water of life)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Alba (Alba: Scotland)
  • Aon, dó, trí… (aon, dhà, trì…: numbers)
  • Céilí (cèilidh: a dance; a visit)
  • Dia, Dia duit (Dia, Dia dhut: God, God be with you)
  • Loch (loch: a lake, a loch)
  • Póg mo thóin (pòg mo thòn: kiss my arse)
  • Slán (slàn leat: goodbye; slàn: healthy, whole)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Abhainn (abhainn: river)
  • Amadán (amadan: fool)
  • Amhrán (amhran, òran: song)
  • An bhfuil cead agam…? (a bheil cead agam…?: may I…?)
  • Arán (aran: bread)
  • Athair (athair: father)
  • Baile (baile: town, township, home)
  • Bainne (bainne: milk)
  • Báisteach (baisteach: rain; most Scots say uisge)
  • Bán (bàn: white, fair)
  • Beag (beag: small)
  • Bean (bean: woman, wife)
  • Bean sí (bean-shìth: fairy woman, banshee)
  • Béarla (Beurla: the English language)
  • Bó (bò: cow)
  • Bodhrán (bòdhran: bodhrán)
  • Bóthar (bóthar: a lane, a road)
  • Buachaill (buachaille: herdsman; a boy is balach)
  • Buí (buidhe: yellow)
  • Cailín (caileag, cailin: girl)
  • Camán (caman: a hurley, a shinty stick)
  • Caora (caora: sheep)
  • Capall (capall: mare, horse)
  • Cara (caraid: friend)
  • Cat (cat: cat)
  • Ceol (ceòl: music)
  • Clann (clann: children, family, clan)
  • Craic (craic: fun, banter)
  • Croí (cridhe: heart)
  • Damhsa (dannsa: dance)
  • Dé Luain, Dé Máirt… (Diluain, DiMàirt…: the days of the week)
  • Dearg (dearg: red)
  • Dubh (dubh: black)
  • Dún Éideann (Dùn Èideann: Edinburgh)
  • Éan (eun: bird)
  • Earrach, samhradh… (earrach, samhradh, foghar, geamhradh: the seasons)
  • Éire (Èirinn, Èire: Ireland)
  • Éirinn go brách (Èirinn gu bràth: Ireland for ever)
  • Farraige (fairge, muir: the sea)
  • Fear (fear: man; Irish féar, grass, is feur)
  • Feis (fèis: a festival)
  • Fleadh (fleadh: a feast)
  • Fuar (fuar: cold)
  • Gaoth (gaoth: wind)
  • Garda (geàrd: a guard)
  • Glas (glas: grey-green, green; also uaine)
  • Gleann (gleann: glen, valley)
  • Go leor (gu leòr: plenty, enough; galore)
  • Gorm (gorm: blue)
  • Grá (gràdh: love)
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  • Grian (grian: sun)
  • Iasc (iasg: fish)
  • Is mise… (is mise…: I am…)
  • Le do thoil (mas e do thoil e: please)
  • Leabhar (leabhar: book)
  • Madra (madadh: dog; most Scots say cù)
  • Maidin mhaith (madainn mhath: good morning)
  • Maith (math: good)
  • Máthair (màthair: mother)
  • Mór (mòr: big)
  • Muc (muc: pig)
  • Nollaig (Nollaig: Christmas)
  • Oíche mhaith (oidhche mhath: good night)
  • Oileán (eilean: island)
  • Páiste (pàiste: child)
  • Práta (buntàta, putàta: potato)
  • Rí (rìgh: king)
  • Samhain (Samhain: November; the feast of Samhain)
  • Sasanach (Sasannach: English person; Sassenach)
  • Scoil (sgoil: school)
  • Sea (seadh: yes, it is)
  • Seamróg (seamrag: shamrock, clover)
  • Sean (sean, seann: old)
  • Sneachta (sneachd: snow)
  • Tá mé go maith (tha mi gu math: I'm well)
  • Tae (tì: tea)
  • Taoiseach (toiseach: leader, chief, the front)
  • Teach (taigh: house, like Munster tigh)
  • Tír na nÓg (Tìr nan Òg: the land of youth)
  • Uaine (uaine: green)
  • Uisce (uisge: water, and rain)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Ach (ach: but)
  • Achadh (achadh: field)
  • Ádh mór (àgh: luck, good fortune)
  • Aghaidh (aghaidh: face)
  • Agus (agus: and)
  • Aimsir (aimsir: weather, time)
  • Ainm (ainm: name)
  • Ainmhí (ainmhidh: animal)
  • Aintín (antaidh: auntie)
  • Airgead (airgead: money, silver)
  • Aisling (aisling: dream, vision)
  • Áit (àite: place)
  • Álainn (àlainn: lovely, beautiful)
  • Albanach (Albannach: a Scot, Scottish)
  • an Bhreatain (Breatann: Britain)
  • an Eoraip (an Roinn-Eòrpa, Eòrpa: Europe)
  • an Fhrainc, an Spáinn… (an Fhraing, an Spàinn…: countries)
  • Anam (anam: soul)
  • Ar ais (air ais: back)
  • Árainn (Arainn: Arran; Aran in Ireland)
  • Ard (àrd: high)
  • Arís (a-rithist: again)
  • Asal (asal: donkey)
  • Áth (àth: ford)
  • Bád (bàta: boat)
  • Baile Átha Cliath (Baile Àtha Cliath: Dublin)
  • Balbh (balbh: dumb, mute)
  • Balla (balla: wall)
  • Banaltra (banaltram: nurse)
  • Banríon (bànrigh: queen)
  • Bard (bàrd: poet)
  • Bás (bàs: death)
  • Béal (beul: mouth)
  • Béal Feirste (Beul Feirste: Belfast)
  • Bealtaine (Bealltainn: May Day, the feast of Beltane)
  • Beann (beinn: peak, mountain; ben)
  • Beannacht (beannachd: blessing, farewell)
  • Beatha (beatha: life)
  • Beo (beò: alive)
  • Beoir (beòir: beer)
  • Bia (biadh: food)
  • Bláth (blàth: flower, blossom)
  • Bliain (bliadhna: year)
  • Bocht (bochd: poor)
  • Bodach (bodach: old man)
  • Bodhar (bodhar: deaf)
  • Bog (bog: soft, boggy)
  • Bolg (balg, bolg: belly, bag)
  • Bonnóg (bonnach: bannock)
  • Bord (bòrd: table, board)
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  • Bothán (bothan: hut, bothy)
  • Brachán (brochan: porridge, gruel)
  • Bradán (bradan: salmon)
  • Brat (brat: cloak, banner, cover)
  • Breá (brèagha: fine, lovely)
  • Breac (breac: trout)
  • Breacán (breacan: tartan, plaid)
  • Bréag (breug: lie)
  • Bricfeasta (bracaist: breakfast)
  • Broc (broc: badger)
  • Bróg (bròg: shoe; brogue)
  • Brónach (brònach: sad)
  • Bualadh bos (bualadh bhasan: applause)
  • Buíochas (buidheachas: thanks, gratitude)
  • Cac
  • Cáca (cèic: cake)
  • Cad é mar atá tú? (gu dè mar a tha thu?: how are you?)
  • Caife (cofaidh: coffee)
  • Cailleach (cailleach: old woman, hag)
  • Caint (cainnt: talk, speech)
  • Cáis (càise: cheese)
  • Cáisc (Càisg: Easter)
  • Caisleán (caisteal: castle)
  • Cál (càl: cabbage, kale)
  • Caoin (caoin: weep, lament; keen)
  • Caol (caol: narrow; a strait; kyle)
  • Carn (càrn: cairn, heap of stones)
  • Carraig (carraig: rock, crag)
  • Cath (cath: battle)
  • Cathaoir (cathair: chair, and a city in both)
  • Ceann (ceann: head, end)
  • Ceannaigh (ceannaich: buy)
  • Ceapaire (ceapaire: sandwich)
  • Cearc (cearc: hen)
  • Cearnóg (ceàrnag: square)
  • Ceart (ceart: right, correct)
  • Ceart go leor (ceart gu leòr: all right, OK)
  • Céile (cèile: spouse, partner)
  • Ceilteach (Ceilteach: Celtic, a Celt)
  • Ceist (ceist: question)
  • Ceo (ceò: fog, mist)
  • Ciall (ciall: sense, meaning)
  • Cill (cill: church, cell; kil-)
  • Ciotóg (ciotag: the left hand)
  • Cistin (cidsin: kitchen)
  • Ciúin (ciùin: calm, quiet)
  • Clábar (clàbar: mud, mire)
  • Claíomh (claidheamh: sword; claidheamh-mòr, the claymore)
  • Cláirseach (clàrsach: harp)
  • Cloch (clach: stone)
  • Cloigeann (claigeann: skull, head)
  • Cluain (cluain: meadow)
  • Cluas (cluas: ear)
  • Cluiche (cluiche: game, play)
  • Cnámh (cnàimh: bone)
  • Cnoc (cnoc: hill)
  • Codladh (cadal: sleep)
  • Cogadh (cogadh: war)
  • Coileach (coileach: cockerel)
  • Coileán (cuilean: pup)
  • Coill (coille: wood, forest)
  • Coinín (coineanach: rabbit)
  • Coirce (coirce: oats)
  • Coire (coire: cauldron; a corrie)
  • Cóisir (còisir: a party, a choir)
  • Comhrá (còmhradh: conversation)
  • Corcaigh (Corcaigh: Cork)
  • Corcra (corcair: purple)
  • Corp (corp: body)
  • Corr (corra: heron)
  • Cos (cas: foot, leg)
  • Cóta (còta: coat)
  • Craiceann (craiceann: skin)
  • Crann (crann: tree, mast; craobh is the usual tree)
  • Craobh (craobh: tree, branch)
  • Creig (creag: crag, rock)
  • Crua (cruaidh: hard)
  • Cú (cù: dog, hound)
  • Cuan (cuan: harbour, bay, ocean)
  • Cuimhne (cuimhne: memory)
  • Cuisle (cuisle: vein, pulse)
  • Cúl (cùl: back)
  • Cupán (cupa: cup)
  • Currach (curach: currach, coracle)
  • Daidí (dadaidh: daddy)
  • Dair (darach: oak)
  • Dall (dall: blind)
  • Dalta (dalta: foster child; pupil)
  • Damhán alla (damhan-allaidh: spider)
  • Daor (daor: dear, expensive)
  • Dath (dath: colour)
  • Déan (dèan: do, make)
  • Deartháir (bràthair: brother)
  • Deas (deas: south; right; ready)
  • Deoch (deoch: a drink)
  • Dinnéar (dìnnear: dinner)
  • Dobharchú (dobhar-chù: otter)
  • Dochtúir (dotair: doctor)
  • Doire (Doire: Derry)
  • Domhan (domhan: the world)
  • Donn (donn: brown)
  • Doras (doras: door)
  • Dorcha (dorcha: dark)
  • Draoi (draoidh: druid; draoidheachd: magic)
  • Droichead (drochaid: bridge)
  • Droim (druim: back, ridge)
  • Dúchas (dùthchas: heritage, birthright)
  • Duileasc (duileasg: dulse)
  • Duilleog (duilleag: leaf, page)
  • Duine (duine: person)
  • Dún (dùn: fort, castle mound)
  • Each (each: horse; the usual Scottish word)
  • Each uisce (each-uisge: water horse, kelpie)
  • Éadrom (aotrom: light, not heavy)
  • Eagla (eagal: fear)
  • Eaglais (eaglais: church)
  • Eas (eas: waterfall)
  • Eascann (easgann: eel)
  • Easpag (easbaig: bishop)
  • Éireannach (Èireannach: Irish person, Irish)
  • Éist (èist: listen)
  • Eitleán (itealan: aeroplane)
  • Eochair (iuchair: key)
  • Eorna (eòrna: barley)
  • Fada (fada: long)
  • Fáinne (fàinne: ring)
  • Fan (fan: wait, stay)
  • Faoileán (faoileag: seagull)
  • Feadóg (feadag: whistle; and plover)
  • Feamainn (feamainn: seaweed)
  • Fearg (fearg: anger)
  • Feic (faic: see)
  • Féin (fhèin: self)
  • Feoil (feòil: meat)
  • Fia (fiadh: deer)
  • Fiacail (fiacail: tooth)
  • Fiach (fitheach: raven)
  • Fianna (Fèinn, Fianna: the Fianna, Fionn's band)
  • Fidil (fìdheall: fiddle)
  • Fíon (fìon: wine)
  • Fionn (fionn: fair, white)
  • Fíor (fìor: true)
  • Fliuch (fliuch: wet)
  • Focal (facal: word)
  • Fód (fòid: a sod, turf)
  • Foghlaim (foghlaim: learn)
  • Fón, teilifís, raidió… (fòn, telebhisean, rèidio…: words both took from English)
  • Fraoch (fraoch: heather)
  • Freagra (freagairt: an answer)
  • Fuil (fuil: blood)
  • Fuinneog (uinneag: window)
  • Gabh mo leithscéal (gabh mo leisgeul: excuse me, sorry)
  • Gabha (gobha: smith)
  • Gabhar (gobhar: goat)
  • Gael (Gàidheal: a Gael)
  • Gaeltacht (Gàidhealtachd: the Gaelic-speaking areas, the Highlands)
  • Gaillimh (Gaillimh: Galway)
  • Gaineamh (gainmheach: sand)
  • Gall (Gall: a foreigner, a Lowlander)
  • Garbh (garbh: rough)
  • Gé (gèadh: goose)
  • Geal (geal: bright, white)
  • Gealach (gealach: moon)
  • Geansaí (geansaidh: jumper)
  • Gearr (geàrr, goirid: short)
  • Geata (geata: a gate)
  • Giolla (gille: lad, servant; the ghillie)
  • Glan (glan: clean)
  • Glaschú (Glaschu: Glasgow)
  • Glic (glic: wise, clever)
  • Glúin (glùn: knee)
  • Gob (gob: beak, mouth)
  • Gorta (gort: famine)
  • Gráinneog (gràineag: hedgehog)
  • Gránna (grànda: ugly)
  • Gruaig (gruag: hair)
  • Gualainn (gualainn: shoulder)
  • Gúna (gùn: dress, gown)
  • Iascaire (iasgair: fisherman)
  • Im (ìm: butter)
  • Inbhear (inbhir: river mouth; inver)
  • Inbhir Nis (Inbhir Nis: Inverness)
  • Inchinn (eanchainn: brain)
  • Iníon (nighean: daughter, girl)
  • Inis (innis: island, inch)
  • Inniu, inné, amárach… (an-diugh, an-dè, a-màireach…: today, yesterday, tomorrow)
  • Iolar (iolaire: eagle)
  • Iomáint (iomain: shinty; iomáint: hurling)
  • Iontach (iongantach: wonderful, strange)
  • Íseal (ìosal: low)
  • Ispín (isbean: sausage)
  • Ith (ith: eat)
  • Lá (là, latha: day)
  • Lá breithe sona (co-là breith sona: happy birthday)
  • Lá Fhéile Pádraig (Là Fhèill Pàdraig: St Patrick's Day)
  • Labhair (labhair: speak)
  • Lacha (lach: duck)
  • Lag (lag: weak)
  • Láidir (làidir: strong)
  • Láir (làir: mare)
  • Lámh (làmh: hand)
  • Lao (laogh: calf)
  • Leaba (leabaidh: bed)
  • Leanbh (leanabh: baby, child)
  • Leann (leann: ale, beer)
  • Léigh (leugh: read)
  • Léim (leum: jump)
  • Léine (lèine: shirt)
  • Leite (lite: porridge)
  • Liath (liath: grey)
  • Linn (linne: pool; a firth)
  • Litir (litir: letter)
  • Lochlannach (Lochlannach: a Viking, Norseman)
  • Lón (lòn: lunch, food)
  • Lon dubh (lon-dubh: blackbird)
  • Long (long: ship)
  • Luath (luath: fast, early)
  • Luch (luch: mouse)
  • Luimneach (Luimneach: Limerick)
  • Lúnasa (Lùnastal: August; the feast of Lughnasa)
  • Mac (mac: son)
  • Machaire (machair: low grassy plain by the sea)
  • Madra rua (madadh-ruadh: fox)
  • Madra uisce (madadh-uisge: otter)
  • Mála (màla: a bag)
  • Mall (mall: slow)
  • Mamaí (mamaidh: mammy)
  • Mar sin (mar sin: so, like that)
  • Márta (am Màrt: March)
  • Mé, tú, sinn… (mi, thu, sinn…: I, you, we)
  • Méar (meur: finger)
  • Mí (mìos: month)
  • Mil (mil: honey)
  • Milis (milis: sweet)
  • Milseán (mìlsean: sweets, dessert)
  • Mín (mìn: smooth, fine)
  • Mo (mo: my)
  • Móin (mòine: turf, peat, bog)
  • Muineál (muineal: neck)
  • Muir (muir: the sea)
  • Muirnín (mùirnean: darling)
  • Mullach (mullach: top, summit, roof)
  • Náire (nàire: shame)
  • Naomh (naomh: saint, holy)
  • Nathair (nathair: snake)
  • Néal (neul: cloud)
  • Nua (nuadh, nodha: new)
  • Obair (obair: work)
  • Obar Dheathain (Obar Dheathain: Aberdeen)
  • Och (och, ochòin: alas, oh)
  • Ocras (acras: hunger)
  • Óg (òg: young)
  • Ogham (ogham: the ogham alphabet)
  • Oíche Shamhna (Oidhche Shamhna: Halloween)
  • Oinniún (uinnean: onion)
  • Óinseach (òinseach: foolish woman)
  • Ól (òl: drink, drinking)
  • Ór (òr: gold)
  • Ordóg (òrdag: thumb)
  • Ospidéal (ospadal: hospital)
  • Páipéar (pàipear: paper, newspaper)
  • Páirc (pàirc: park, field)
  • Peann (peann: pen)
  • Péist (piast, biast: beast, worm, monster)
  • Píobaire (pìobaire: piper; pìob: pipes)
  • Piobar (piobar: pepper)
  • Piscín (piseag: kitten)
  • Pluid (plaide: blanket; plaid)
  • Poitín (pòitean: poitín)
  • Port (port: tune; harbour)
  • Port Láirge (Port Làirge: Waterford)
  • Portán (partan: crab)
  • Prionsa (prionnsa: prince)
  • Ramhar (reamhar: fat, thick)
  • Rang (rang: rank, row)
  • Ráth (ràth: ring fort)
  • Réalta (reul: star)
  • Reilig (reilig: graveyard)
  • Rith (ruith: run)
  • Rón (ròn: seal)
  • Ronnach (rionnach: mackerel)
  • Ros (ros: headland, promontory)
  • Rua (ruadh: red-haired, russet)
  • Rún (rùn: love, a secret)
  • Sagart (sagart: priest)
  • Saibhir (saidhbhir: rich)
  • Saighdiúir (saighdear: soldier)
  • Salach (salach: dirty)
  • Salann (salann: salt)
  • Saoirse (saorsa: freedom)
  • Saol (saoghal: life, the world)
  • Saor (saor: free, cheap; a carpenter)
  • Sasana (Sasainn: England)
  • Sásta (sàsta: satisfied)
  • Scadán (sgadan: herring)
  • Scéal (sgeul: a story; dè an sgeul?: what's the story?)
  • Scian (sgian: knife; the sgian-dubh)
  • Sciath (sgiath: shield, wing)
  • Scríobh (sgrìobh: write)
  • Scuab (sguab: brush)
  • Seachtain (seachdain: week)
  • Seacláid (seòclaid: chocolate)
  • Sean-nós (seann-nòs: the old style of singing)
  • Seanathair (seanair: grandfather)
  • Seanchaí (seanchaidh: storyteller)
  • Seanmháthair (seanmhair: grandmother)
  • Searbh (searbh: bitter, sour)
  • Searrach (searrach: foal)
  • Seas (seas: stand)
  • Seinn (seinn: sing, play; music)
  • Séipéal (seapail: chapel)
  • Seisiún (seisean: session)
  • Seo (seo: this, here)
  • Seomra (seòmar: room)
  • Simléar (similear: chimney)
  • Sin (sin: that, there)
  • Sioc (sioc: frost)
  • Síocháin (sìth, sìochainnt: peace)
  • Sionnach (sionnach: fox)
  • Siúcra (siùcar: sugar)
  • Sliabh (sliabh: mountain, moor)
  • Slua (sluagh: host, crowd; sluagh-ghairm: war cry)
  • Smig (smig: chin)
  • Smólach (smeòrach: thrush)
  • Solas (solas: light)
  • Sona (sona: happy, lucky)
  • Sparán (sporan: purse, the sporran)
  • Spéir (speur: sky)
  • Spórt (spòrs: sport, fun)
  • Spúnóg (spàin: spoon)
  • Sráid (sràid: street)
  • Srath (srath: river valley, strath)
  • Srón (sròn: nose)
  • Sruighlea (Sruighlea: Stirling)
  • Sruth (sruth: stream, current)
  • Staighre (staidhre: stairs)
  • Stoca (stocainn: sock, stocking)
  • Stoirm (stoirm: storm)
  • Stór (stòr: a store, a treasury)
  • Sú (sùgh: juice)
  • Suaimhneas (suaimhneas: peace, calm)
  • Suas, síos, isteach, amach (suas, sìos, a-steach, a-mach: up, down, in, out)
  • Suigh (suidh: sit)
  • Súil (sùil: eye; a look)
  • Suipéar (suipear: supper)
  • Tá (tha: is, are, and yes)
  • Talamh (talamh: earth, ground, land)
  • Tanaí (tana: thin)
  • Tarbh (tarbh: bull)
  • Tart (tart: thirst)
  • Te (teth: hot)
  • Teagasc (teagasg: teaching)
  • Teampall (teampall: temple, church)
  • Teanga (teanga: tongue, language)
  • Tiarna (tighearna: lord)
  • Tine (teine: fire)
  • Tír (tìr: land, country)
  • Tirim (tioram: dry)
  • Tobar (tobar: well)
  • Tóin (tòn: backside, bum)
  • Toirneach (tàirneanach: thunder)
  • Torc (torc: boar)
  • Trá (tràigh: beach, strand)
  • Triús (triubhas: trousers; trews)
  • Trom (trom: heavy)
  • Tuí (tughadh: thatch)
  • Tuig (tuig: understand)
  • Tulach (tulach: hillock, mound)
  • Uachtar (uachdar: cream, top)
  • Uaigneas (uaigneas: loneliness, solitude)
  • Uair (uair: hour, time)
  • Uan (uan: lamb)
  • Ubh (ugh: egg)
  • Uillinn (uileann: elbow)
  • Úll (ubhal: apple)
  • Uncail (uncail: uncle)
  • Úr (ùr: new, fresh)
  • Urlár (ùrlar: floor)

Question 6 · History

Name a famous Scot from history.

Anyone Scottish by birth or family who died before 1960, and any king or queen of Scotland.

Robin10 km

  • William Wallace (Braveheart; won at Stirling Bridge, 1297)

Hedgehog25 km

  • Robert Burns (the national poet; Auld Lang Syne)
  • Robert the Bruce (King of Scots 1306–1329; won at Bannockburn)

Red Fox40 km

  • Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart, born in Rome; led the 1745 Rising)
  • James Connolly (born in Edinburgh's Cowgate; led the Citizen Army in 1916)
  • Mary, Queen of Scots (Queen of Scots 1542–1567)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Alexander Fleming (discovered penicillin)
  • Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone; born in Edinburgh)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes; born in Edinburgh)
  • James VI and I (united the crowns, 1603; the King James Bible and the Plantation of Ulster)
  • John Logie Baird (the first working television)
  • Macbeth (King of Scots 1040–1057)
  • Rob Roy MacGregor (the outlaw of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde)
  • Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)
  • Andrew Carnegie (steel, libraries; born in Dunfermline)
  • Charles I (born in Dunfermline, the last king born in Scotland)
  • Charles II (crowned at Scone, 1651)
  • Charles Macintosh (the raincoat)
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh (the Glasgow architect and designer)
  • David Hume (the philosopher)
  • David Livingstone ("Dr Livingstone, I presume?")
  • Douglas Haig (led the British army, 1915–1918)
  • Duncan I (the King Duncan of Macbeth)
  • Edward Bruce (brother of Robert; crowned King of Ireland, 1316)
  • Eric Liddell (Chariots of Fire; Olympic champion, 1924)
  • Flora MacDonald (helped Bonnie Prince Charlie over the sea to Skye)
  • Greyfriars Bobby (Edinburgh's faithful terrier: a dog, but we'll allow him)
  • Gruoch, Lady Macbeth (Macbeth's queen)
  • J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • James IV (fell at Flodden, 1513)
  • James VII and II (lost the Boyne, 1690)
  • James Watt (the steam engine)
  • John Boyd Dunlop (the pneumatic tyre, made in Belfast)
  • John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps)
  • John Knox (the Reformation in Scotland)
  • John Loudon McAdam (tarmac)
  • John Muir (father of America's national parks)
  • Johnnie Walker (the Kilmarnock grocer behind the whisky)
  • Keir Hardie (founded the Labour Party)
  • Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows; born in Edinburgh)
  • Kenneth MacAlpin (first King of Alba, 843)
  • Lord Darnley (Mary, Queen of Scots' second husband)
  • Lord Kelvin (the Kelvin scale; Belfast-born to a Glasgow mother, a Glasgow professor for 53 years)
  • Malcolm III (Malcolm Canmore, who overthrew Macbeth)
  • Mary II
  • Mary Slessor (the missionary in Nigeria)
  • Old Tom Morris (golf's first great)
  • Queen Anne (the last monarch of Scotland alone, to 1707)
  • Saint Mungo (Glasgow's patron saint)
  • Thomas Lipton (Lipton's tea; Glasgow-born to Fermanagh parents)
  • Thomas Telford
  • William Gladstone (Scottish parents; tried Home Rule for Ireland)
  • William Kidd (Captain Kidd the pirate)
  • William McGonagall (the worst poet)
  • William of Orange (King of Scotland as William II, 1689–1702; a Stuart through his mother)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Adam Ferguson
  • Áed (King of Picts and Scots, 877–878)
  • Alasdair Mac Colla (fought in Ireland's 1640s wars, killed in Cork)
  • Alasdair MacIain (chief killed at Glencoe, 1692)
  • Alexander Bain (the electric clock)
  • Alexander Hamilton (Scottish father)
  • Alexander I
  • Alexander II
  • Alexander III (his fall at Kinghorn, 1286)
  • Alexander Mackenzie (the explorer, or Canada's second prime minister)
  • Alexander Selkirk (the real Robinson Crusoe)
  • Allan Pinkerton (the detective agency)
  • Allan Ramsay (the poet, or his son the painter)
  • Amlaíb
  • Andrew Meikle (the threshing machine)
  • Andrew Melville
  • Andrew Moray (Wallace's partner at Stirling Bridge)
  • Andrew Watson (Scotland captain, 1881)
  • Annabella Drummond
  • Anne of Denmark
  • Arthur Balfour (Chief Secretary for Ireland, then prime minister)
  • Benny Lynch
  • Black Agnes (held Dunbar Castle against the English, 1338)
  • Bonar Law (prime minister, raised in Glasgow)
  • Calgacus (the Caledonian chief who fought Rome)
  • Catherine of Braganza
  • Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde)
  • Constantine I
  • Constantine II
  • Constantine III
  • Cuilén
  • David Brewster (the kaleidoscope)
  • David Douglas (the Douglas fir)
  • David Dunbar Buick (Buick cars)
  • David I (founded the Border abbeys)
  • David II
  • David Wilkie
  • Deacon Brodie (Edinburgh's councillor and burglar)
  • Donald I
  • Donald II
  • Donald III (Donald Bane)
  • Dub
  • Duncan II
  • Earl of Bothwell (Mary, Queen of Scots' third husband)
  • Edward Balliol
  • Edwin Muir (the Orkney poet, died 1959)
  • Elizabeth de Burgh (Robert the Bruce's queen, daughter of the Earl of Ulster)
  • Elsie Inglis
  • Eochaid
  • Ermengarde de Beaumont
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  • Ethelreda of Northumbria
  • Euphemia de Ross
  • Fergus Mór mac Eirc (first king of the Scots of Dál Riata, in the old king lists)
  • Francis II of France (Mary, Queen of Scots' first husband)
  • George Buchanan
  • George MacDonald
  • George Wishart
  • Giric
  • Harry Lauder
  • Hector MacDonald (Fighting Mac)
  • Henrietta Maria
  • Henry Benedict Stuart (Cardinal York)
  • Henry Campbell-Bannerman
  • Henry Raeburn
  • Hugh Miller
  • Hugh Montgomery (settled the Ards, 1606)
  • Hughie Gallacher
  • Indulf
  • Ingibiorg Finnsdottir
  • Iníon Dubh (Red Hugh O'Donnell's Scottish mother)
  • Isabella MacDuff (crowned Robert the Bruce)
  • Isobel Gowdie
  • James Boswell
  • James Braid (five Opens)
  • James Bruce (the Abyssinian explorer)
  • James Cook (Captain Cook; Scottish father)
  • James Dewar (the vacuum flask)
  • James Douglas (the Black Douglas, Bruce's captain)
  • James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender)
  • James Graham, Marquess of Montrose
  • James Gregory
  • James Hamilton, Viscount Claneboye (settled north Down, 1606)
  • James Hogg (the Ettrick Shepherd)
  • James Hutton (father of geology)
  • James I of Scotland (King of Scots 1406–1437)
  • James II of Scotland (King of Scots 1437–1460)
  • James III
  • James Lind (cured scurvy)
  • James Macpherson (Ossian's 'translator')
  • James Maxton
  • James Nasmyth (the steam hammer)
  • James V (father of Mary, Queen of Scots)
  • James Young Simpson (chloroform)
  • Jane Haining
  • Jean Armour (Robert Burns' wife)
  • Jenny Geddes (threw her stool in St Giles', 1637)
  • Joan Beaufort
  • Joan of England
  • Joan of the Tower
  • Joanna Baillie
  • John A. Macdonald (Canada's first prime minister)
  • John Balliol (Toom Tabard)
  • John Brown (Queen Victoria's Highland servant)
  • John Comyn (the Red Comyn)
  • John Duns Scotus (the philosopher from Duns)
  • John Graham of Claverhouse (Bonnie Dundee)
  • John Hunter
  • John Jameson (the Alloa man behind Jameson whiskey)
  • John Maclean (Red Clydeside; backed Irish independence)
  • John Napier (logarithms)
  • John Paul Jones (founder of the US Navy)
  • John Rae (Arctic explorer)
  • John Rennie (the engineer who built London Bridge)
  • John Thomson (Celtic's goalkeeper)
  • John Witherspoon (signed the US Declaration of Independence)
  • Joseph Black
  • Kenneth II
  • Kenneth III
  • King Edgar (King of Scots 1097–1107)
  • Kirkpatrick Macmillan (the pedal bicycle)
  • Lachlan Macquarie
  • Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Sunset Song)
  • Lord Byron (Scottish mother, raised in Aberdeen)
  • Lord George Murray (the Jacobite general)
  • Lord Lovat (Simon Fraser, beheaded 1747)
  • Lulach (Macbeth's stepson)
  • Madeleine of Valois
  • Malcolm I
  • Malcolm II
  • Malcolm IV
  • Margaret Drummond
  • Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
  • Margaret of Denmark
  • Margaret of England
  • Margaret Oliphant
  • Margaret Tudor (wife of James IV)
  • Margaret, Maid of Norway
  • Marie de Coucy
  • Marie Stopes
  • Mary Barbour (Glasgow's rent strikes)
  • Mary of Guelders
  • Mary of Guise (mother of Mary, Queen of Scots)
  • Mary of Modena
  • Mary Somerville
  • Maud of Northumbria
  • Michael Scot (the wizard of Dante's Inferno)
  • Mungo Park (explored the Niger)
  • Patrick Bell (the reaping machine)
  • Patrick Geddes
  • Patrick Manson
  • Ramsay MacDonald (first Labour prime minister)
  • Red Hugh O'Donnell (his mother, Iníon Dubh, was a MacDonald raised at the Scottish court)
  • Robert Adam (the architect)
  • Robert Brown (the botanist)
  • Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (led the soldiers at Glencoe)
  • Robert Fergusson
  • Robert Henryson
  • Robert II (the first Stewart king)
  • Robert III
  • Robert Knox (the anatomist who bought from Burke and Hare)
  • Robert Service (the Bard of the Yukon; Scottish father)
  • Robert Tannahill
  • Robert William Thomson (an earlier air-filled tyre)
  • Saint John Ogilvie
  • Saint Magnus (Earl of Orkney)
  • Saint Margaret (Queen of Scots; St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle)
  • Saint Ninian
  • Sandford Fleming (standard time zones; born in Kirkcaldy)
  • Sir John Moore
  • Somerled (Lord of the Isles)
  • Sorley Boy MacDonnell (the Antrim MacDonnell who took Dunluce)
  • Sybilla of Normandy
  • Thomas Blake Glover
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Thomas Chalmers
  • Thomas Cochrane (the admiral)
  • Thomas Muir
  • Thomas Reid
  • Thomas the Rhymer
  • Tobias Smollett
  • William Dunbar
  • William Hunter
  • William McEwan (the brewer)
  • William Murdoch (gas lighting)
  • William Ramsay (the noble gases)
  • William Speirs Bruce
  • William the Lion
  • Willie Park (won the first Open)
  • Yolande de Dreux
  • Young Tom Morris

Question 7 · General knowledge

Name a creature from Scottish folklore.

Spirits, monsters and magical beings of Scottish folklore and legend, including those Scotland shares with Ireland. Plain ghosts and witches don't count.

Robin10 km

  • Loch Ness Monster (Nessie)

Hedgehog25 km

  • Banshee (bean sìth)
  • Kelpie (water horse)
  • Unicorn (Scotland's national animal)

Red Fox40 km

  • Fairies (the sìth)
  • Selkie (seal folk)
  • Wild haggis

Irish Hare55 km

  • Benandonner (the Scottish giant of the Causeway)
  • Brownie
  • Changeling (tàcharan)
  • Fionn mac Cumhaill (Fingal, the giant)
  • Giant (famhair)
  • Mermaid (ceasg)
  • The Cailleach (Beira, Queen of Winter)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Am Fear Liath Mòr (the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui)
  • Baobhan sìth (the fairy witch)
  • Bean nighe (the washer at the ford)
  • Beithir (the dragon)
  • Blue Men of the Minch (storm kelpies)
  • Bodach (the bogeyman)
  • Bogle
  • Caoineag (the keener)
  • Cat-sìth (the fairy cat)
  • Cù-sìth (the fairy hound)
  • Each-uisge (the Highland water horse)
  • Ewen of the Little Head (the headless horseman of Mull)
  • Finfolk
  • Ghillie Dhu
  • Glaistig (the Green Lady)
  • Leannan sìth (the fairy lover)
  • Morag (the monster of Loch Morar)
  • Nuckelavee
  • Redcap
  • Sluagh (the host of the dead)
  • Spunkie (will-o'-the-wisp)
  • Stoor Worm (the great sea serpent)
  • The Queen of Elfland (and the fairy king)
  • The Seelie and Unseelie Courts
  • Trow (the troll of Orkney and Shetland)
  • Uilebheist (oilliphéist, the great monster)
  • Wraith (a living person's ghostly double)
  • Wulver (Shetland's wolf man)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Beast of Buchan
  • Bertram de Shotts (the giant of Shotts)
  • Biast Bhealach Odail
  • Billy Blind
  • Bòcan (bauchan)
  • Boobrie
  • Bran (Fingal's hound)
  • Cirein-cròin (the great sea monster)
  • Dunnie
  • Fachan (the one-legged giant)
  • Fuath (vough)
  • Galloway Puma
  • Gigelorum
  • Grogoch
  • Gruagach
  • Kilmoulis
  • Lavellan
  • Maggy Moulach
  • Muc-sheilche (the monster of Loch Maree)
  • Nuggle and shoopiltee (Shetland's water horses)
  • Pechs
  • Pictish Beast
  • Sea Mither and Teran
  • Seonaidh (Shony, the sea spirit of Lewis)
  • Shellycoat
  • Tangie (Orkney's water horse)
  • Tarbh-uisge (the water bull)
  • Urisk (ùruisg)
  • Wirry-cow
  • Worm of Linton