MY SCOTTISH HISTORY

Question 1

Battle of Glencoe

Answer 1

13 Feb 1692

30 MacDonalds killed by government forces billeted with them on the grounds that they had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs,
William III of England and Mary II.

Question 2

Scottish Highland Clearances

Answer 2

1750-1860

Evictions of tenants

First phase: 1750- 1815. agricultural improvement driven by landlords need to increase their income due to crippling debt.

Second phase: 1815-1860. Collapse of economy of overcrowded crofting communities.

Question 3

Mary Queen of Scots

Answer 3

Queen of Scotland 1542-1567.
Her
Father died when she was 6 days old

Forced to abdicate by Scottish nobles in 1567.

She sought the protection of England’s Queen Elizabeth I, who instead had her arrested.

Mary spent the remainder of her life in captivity until her 1587 execution.

Question 4

Jacobitism

Answer 4

Jacobitism was a largely 17th- and 18th-century movement that supported the restoration of the House of Stuart to the British throne. The name is derived from Jacobus, the Latin version of James.

Loyalism to the senior line of the Stuarts
Indefeasible dynastic right
Divine right of kings
Anti-Unionism (after 1707)

Question 5

William Wallace

Answer 5

Born circa 1270, near Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland, William Wallace was the son of a Scottish landowner. He spearheaded his country’s long charge against the English toward freedom, and his martyrdom paved the way for eventual success.

Question 6

Robbie Burns

Answer 6

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets,[nb 1] was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

Question 7

Edinburgh Castle

Answer 7

Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100-year-old history, giving it a claim to having been “the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world”.[2]

Question 8

Croft

Answer 8

A small piece of rented land with a home occupied and worked by a tenant farmer

Question 9

Battle of Stirling Bridge

Answer 9

The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.

Question 10

What impact did Robbie Burns have

Answer 10

He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world.

Question 11

What was the romantic movement?

Answer 11

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1890.

Question 12

Battle of Culloden

Answer 12

The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Drummossie Moor near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. It was the last pitched battle fought on British soil.

Question 13

Oban

Answer 13

Gateway to the islands

Question 14

Great Glen Fault

Answer 14

The Great Glen Fault is a long strike-slip fault that runs through its namesake the Great Glen in Scotland. Forms Loch Ness

Question 15

Caledonian Canal

Answer 15

The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland. The canal was constructed in the early nineteenth century by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford.

Question 16

Urquhart Castle

Answer 16

Castle beside loch ness.

Dates from
13th century to 16th centuries

Urquhart played a role in the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century. It was subsequently held as a royal castle, and was raided on several occasions by the MacDonald Earls of Ross.

Question 17

Orkney

Answer 17

Orkney is an archipelago off the northeastern coast of Scotland. The islands encompass Neolithic sites, tall sandstone cliffs and seal colonies. The ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’ is a group of 5,000-year-old sites on Mainland, the largest island including Skara Brae, a preserved village with a reconstructed house, and Maeshowe, a chambered burial tomb incorporating 12th-century Viking carvings.

Question 18

Skye

Answer 18

is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.[Note 1] The island’s peninsulas radiate from a mountainous centre dominated by the Cuillin, the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the country.[10

Question 19

Iona

Answer 19

The island was the site of a highly important monastery. According to tradition the monastery was founded in 563 by the monk Columba, also known as Colm Cille, who had been exiled from his native Ireland as a result of his involvement in the Battle of Cul Dreimhne.[28] Columba and twelve companions went into exile on Iona and founded a monastery there. The monastery was hugely successful, and played a crucial role in the conversion to Christianity of the Picts of present-day Scotland in the late 6th century and of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in 635.

Question 20

Inverness

Answer 20

Inverness meaning “Mouth of the River Ness”; Scots: Innerness) is a cathedral city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council[2] and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands.

population 46k

Question 21

Crannog

Answer 21

In the Iron Age, some Celtic people lived on defensible, artificial islands called crannogs. Crannogs (also found elsewhere in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales) not only afforded excellent protection from unruly neighbours but also from the more dangerous wild animals (wolves, bears, boars, and lynxes)

Question 22

Jacobitism

Answer 22

Jacobitism ) was a largely 17th- and 18th-century movement that supported the restoration of the House of Stuart to the British throne. The name is derived from Jacobus, the Latin version of James

Question 23

Rob Roy McDonald

Answer 23

Scottish outlaw who became a legend. 1671-1734

Question 24

Sir Walter Scott

Answer 24

Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Ivanhoe. Rob Roy 1771-1832

Question 25

House of Stuart

Answer 25

The House of Stuart, originally Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain, with historical connections to Brittany.[2]

Question 26

What characterizes romanticism?

Answer 26

Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.

Question 27

To what was the romantic movement a reaction?

Answer 27

It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature—all components of modernity.

Question 28

When were the wars of Scottish independence?

Answer 28

The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Question 29

First War of Scottish Independence

Answer 29

The First War (1296–1328) began with the English invasion of Scotland in 1296, and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.

Question 30

Second War of Scottish independence

Answer 30

The Second War (1332–1357) began with the English-supported invasion by Edward Balliol and the ‘Disinherited’ in 1332, and ended in 1357 with the signing of the Treaty of Berwick. The wars were part of a great crisis for Scotland and the period became one of the most defining times in its history.

Question 31

What is a royal house?

Answer 31

Royal house
A royal house or royal dynasty consists of at least one, but usually more monarchs who are related to one another, as well as their non-reigning descendants and spouses. Monarchs of the same realm who are not related to one another are usually deemed to belong to different houses, and each house is designated by a name which distinguishes it from other houses.

Question 32

What is a monarch?

Answer 32

noun
1.
a sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.
“the reigning monarch”

Question 33

Sovereign

Answer 33

a person who has supreme power or authority.

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Question 34

Dynasty

Answer 34

a powerful group or family that maintains its position for a considerable time

Question 35

Who was Robert ll!

Answer 35

The first monarch of the Stewart line was Robert II whose descendants were kings and queens of Scotland from 1371 until the union with England in 1707.

Question 36

Who was James V?

Answer 36

James V (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542) was King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death, which followed the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss. His only surviving legitimate child, Mary, Queen of Scots, succeeded him when she was just six days old.

Question 37

What is the significance of the Wars of Scottish Independence on Scottish history!

Answer 37

The wars were part of a great crisis for Scotland and the period became one of the most defining times in its history. At the end of both wars, Scotland retained its status as an independent state

Question 38

Glasgow

Answer 38

Glasgow is a port city on the River Clyde in Scotland’s western Lowlands. It’s famed for its Victorian and art nouveau architecture, a rich legacy of the city’s 18th–20th-century prosperity due to trade and shipbuilding. Today it’s a national cultural hub, home to institutions including the Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and National Theatre of Scotland, as well as acclaimed museums and a thriving music scene.

Question 39

Edinburgh

Answer 39

Capital of Scotland
Metro area- about one million people

Located on the Firth of Forth

Some have called Edinburgh the Athens of the North for a variety of reasons. The earliest comparison between the two cities showed that they had a similar topography, with the Castle Rock of Edinburgh performing a similar role to the Athenian Acropolis.

auld reekie - coal and Nor loch. Drainage site

Question 40

Firth

Answer 40

A narrow inlet of the sea. Estuary

Question 41

History of “Amazing Grace”

Answer 41

“Amazing Grace” is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written in 1772 by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807).

Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life’s path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by others’ reactions to what they took as his recalcitrant insubordination.

He was pressed (conscripted) into service in the Royal Navy. After leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

Question 42

Robert the Bruce

Answer 42

1274-1329

Robert was one of the most famous warriors of his generation, and eventually led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. He fought successfully during his reign to regain Scotland’s place as an independent country and is today revered in Scotland as a national hero.

Question 43

John Knox

Answer 43

John Knox (c. 1514 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country’s Reformation. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

Question 44

John o’Groats

Answer 44

John o’ Groats lies on Great Britain’s northeastern tip, and is popular with tourists as one end of the longest distance between two inhabited British points on the mainland, with Land’s End in Cornwall lying 876 miles (1,410 km) to the southwest

Question 45

Sir Walter Scott

Answer 45

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include The Lady of the Lake (narrative poem) and the novels Waverley, Old Mortality (or The Tale of Old Mortality), Rob Roy, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, and Ivanhoe.

Scott’s knowledge of history, and his facility with literary technique, made him a seminal figure in the establishment of the historical novel genre, as well as an exemplar of European literary Romanticism.

Question 46

Flags of scotland

Answer 46

The Flag of Scotland is a white X-shaped cross, which represents the cross of the patron saint of Scotland, Saint Andrew on a blue sky. The flag is called the Saltire or the Saint Andrew’s C
—
The Lion Rampant
This is considered the unofficial flag of Scotland, and is referred to as the ‘Royal Flag of Scotland’. It is connected with royalty because historically and legally the lion flag belongs to the monarchy, in particular the King or Queen of Scotland.

Question 47

Who are Celtic fans?

Answer 47

Celtic supporters have traditionally come from the Catholic population of Scotland and people of Irish background, but not exclusively.

Question 48

Who are Ranger fans?

Answer 48

Rangers supporters have traditionally been identified with the Protestant and Unionist community in Scotland, as well as in Northern Ireland. Hi

Question 49

What is the Old Firm?

Answer 49

The Old Firm is the collective name for the Scottish football clubs Celtic and Rangers, which are both based in Glasgow. The two clubs are by far the most successful and popular in Scotland, and the rivalry between them has become deeply embedded in Scottish culture. It has reflected, and contributed to, political, social, and religious division and sectarianism in Scotland.[3] As a result, the fixture has had an enduring appeal around the world.[

Question 50

Battle of Bannockburn

Answer 50

The Battle of Bannockburn (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Allt nam Bànag or Blàr Allt a’ Bhonnaich) on 23 and 24 June 1314 was a victory of the army of King of Scots Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II of England in the First War of Scottish Independence. Though it did not bring overall victory in the war, which would go on for 14 more years, it was a landmark in Scottish history.[10]