Reformation and Regal Union

Question 1

what beverages were the most imported good

Answer 1

Wine

Question 2

which country was the auld alliance with

Answer 2

France

Question 3

where was Scotland’s first university founded in 1413

Answer 3

St Andrews

Question 4

Mary queen scots brief marriage

Answer 4

Francis II

Question 5

leader of the scottish Reformation

Answer 5

John Knox

Question 6

what castle was captured in 1573

Answer 6

Edinburgh

Question 7

which European princess did James V1 marry in 1959

Answer 7

Anna of Denmark

Question 8

who was the last Tudor monarch

Answer 8

Elizabeth I

Question 9

What year did James VI succeed as king of England and Ireland?

Answer 9

1603

Question 10

Which Irish Province did the anglo- scottish plantations predominantly take place

Answer 10

Ulster

Question 11

How many times did James return to scotland after becoming king of England

Answer 11

One

Question 12

what did charles I introduce to scotland in 1637, prompting widespread rioting

Answer 12

A new prayer book

Question 13

What was the name of the treat agreed in 1643 by which scots agreed to enter the english civil war on the parliaments side

Answer 13

solemn league and covenant

Question 14

Which country did England fight three wars in the 1650s-70s

Answer 14

Dutch Republic

Question 15

Which year did Charles II oversee abortive negotiations for anglo-scottish union

Answer 15

1670

Question 16

What name did the Scots give to the settlement they attempted to establish in Carolina in the 1680s

Answer 16

Stewarts Town

Question 17

Which nobleman led a rebellion against James IV in 1685

Answer 17

Earl of Argyll

Question 18

Name of document in which the Scottish parliament declared James VII to have forfeited the Scottish throne

Answer 18

Claim of Right

Question 19

which scottish attempt to settle a colony had bad consequences

Answer 19

Darien

Question 20

what year was the formal union of scot and eng

Answer 20

1707

Question 21

In 1701 what was the war the kingdoms were fighting

Answer 21

war of the Spanish Succession

Question 22

what was the act given to the English Act of Parliament of 1705

Answer 22

Aliens act

Question 23

Who published the poems of ossian in the 1760s

Answer 23

James Macpherson

Question 24

Name of Adam Smiths pioneering book published in 1776

Answer 24

Wealth of Nations

Question 25

Edinburgh famous nickname

Answer 25

Athens of the North

Question 26

What year was the Jacobite rising

Answer 26

1745

Question 27

which european monarch did the jacobites attempt to negotiate an alliance in 1716-7

Answer 27

Charles XII of Sweden

Question 28

Name of the final Jacobite pretender

Answer 28

Henry Benedict Stuart

Question 29

What empire did not experience significant growth

Answer 29

Australia

Question 30

What war led to colonial expansion in Canada from 1763

Answer 30

Seven Years War

Question 31

Which Scottish city became associated with tobacco

Answer 31

Glasgow

Question 32

What corporation drove British expansion in India

Answer 32

East

Question 33

What region in India did Scots most make up

Answer 33

Bengal

Question 34

Which of the following was not one of the big three major Scots migration destinations

Answer 34

New Zealand

Question 35

Which decade did Scots migrate to Ulster

Answer 35

1690s

Question 36

What was the name of the charitable organisation formally founded in 1665

Answer 36

Highland Society of London

Question 37

How many scots ships involved with slave trading

Answer 37

30

Question 38

What island were they kept

Answer 38

Bance Islnd

Question 39

Who wrote capitalism and slavery

Answer 39

Eric Williams

Question 40

What kind of cloth was osnaburg

Answer 40

Linen

Question 41

1761 weight of tobacco imported to glasgow

Answer 41

47 million pounds

Question 42

Which year was the abolition slave trade act

Answer 42

1807

Question 43

In which year was the act of emancipation

Answer 43

1833

Question 44

How many people were estimated to have emigrated from Scotland over the period 1825-1930

Answer 44

2.5mil

Question 45

Where did scotts typically emigrate too

Answer 45

USA

Question 46

Where was the Public works act published 1870

Answer 46

New Zealand

Question 47

What proportion of scottish emigrant returned home to scotland

Answer 47

1/4

Question 48

Someone returning to scotland with wealth was called

Answer 48

Nabob

Question 49

continuing tradidtions overseas

Answer 49

Diaspora

Question 50

What was not a major industry

Answer 50

Electronics

Question 51

what battle did scots most participate in

Answer 51

Loos

Question 52

what percent of scots lived in urban areas by the 1950s

Answer 52

over 80%

Question 53

When did SNP gain its first seat in westminster

Answer 53

1945

Question 54

When was the stone of destiny last stolen

Answer 54

1950

Question 55

Who was Scotland's first minister

Answer 55

Donald Dewar