Statistics for Scotland A-Z

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
E	Scotland's capital	Edinburgh	97%
K	Pleated skirt for men	Kilt	95%
L	Scottish term for a lake	Loch	94%
A	"Yes" in the Scots dialect	Aye	92%
B	Woodwind musical instrument associated with Scotland	Bagpipes	91%
P	City that gave its name to a major city in Australia	Perth	90%
M	Shakespeare play set in Scotland	MacBeth	87%
J	King who commissioned an English translation of the Bible	James VI	82%
H	Fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes	82%
V	People that invaded Scotland in the 8th century	Vikings	82%
I	"Capital" of the Scottish Highlands	Inverness	79%
N	Colony in the Americas whose name is Latin for "New Scotland"	Nova Scotia	75%
G	Popular sport from Scotland	Golf	72%
T	Criss-cross patterns on cloth, sometimes associated with a specific clan	Tartan	72%
U	National animal	Unicorn	71%
W	Hero portrayed in the movie "Braveheart"	William Wallace	71%
X	Chemical element discovered by William Ramsay	Xenon	68%
D	City on the Firth of Tay	Dundee	66%
O	Island chain that lies about 10 miles north of the Scottish mainland	Orkney	65%
F	Biologist and physician who discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	62%
Z	Scotland got its first ever win at the FIFA World Cup in 1974 against this country (which now has a different name)	Zaire	62%
R	Largest bank	RBS	58%
C	Roman name for Scotland	Caledonia	49%
S	Scottish Enlightenment figure known as "The Father of Economics"	Adam Smith	44%
Y	Treaty that established the border between England and Scotland in 1237	Treaty of {York}	44%
Q	Book by Sir Walter Scott about a Scottish archer in France	{Quentin} Durward	21%