Statistics for History of Scotland

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Antibiotic discovered by accident by Alexander Fleming in 1928	Penicillin	93%
Fictional detective who first appeared in print in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887	Sherlock Holmes	90%
Shakespeare play that was set in Scotland	Macbeth	88%
Queen of Scots who was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586	Mary	88%
Group who invaded Scotland in the 8th century	Vikings	85%
Popular sport thought to have originated in Scotland in the 15th century	Golf	82%
Scottish hero portrayed by Mel Gibson in "Braveheart"	William Wallace	82%
Scottish king who became the king of England and Ireland in 1603, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms	James VI	70%
Scottish Labour politician who served as Prime Minister from 1997–2007	Tony Blair	69%
Canadian province which was briefly a Scottish colony between 1629–1632	Nova Scotia	67%
Scottish tennis player who won the Wimbledon championship in 2013 and 2016	Andy Murray	62%
Author of "The Wealth of Nations", the foundational text of economics	Adam Smith	60%
King who led the Scottish to independence in the 14th century	Robert the Bruce	58%
Machine improved by James Watt in the 18th century, which helped to spark the Industrial Revolution	Steam Engine	58%
Celtic-speaking group who inhabited eastern and northern Scotland during the British Iron Age	Picts	47%
Ancient Roman name for Scotland	Caledonia	45%
Traditional province of Ireland settled by the Scots starting in the 17th century	Ulster	41%
Scottish victory referred to in the song "Flower of Scotland"	Battle of {Bannockburn}	33%
Treaty which established the border between England and Scotland in 1237	Treaty of {York}	23%
Enlightenment philosopher who said that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions"	David Hume	19%