Scotland Council Quiz - Argyll and Bute

Can you guess these facts about the Scottish council area of Argyll and Bute?

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Popular coastal town on the Firth of Lorn and a ferry port for the Isle of Mull	Oban
Largest town on the Isle of Mull	Tobermory
Outlet of a major river which borders the east of the council area	Firth of Clyde
Location of HMNB (Her Majesty's Naval Base) Clyde, the UK's nuclear submarine base	Faslane
Scottish inventor from Helensburgh who demonstrated the world's first working television	John Logie Baird
Southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides	Islay
Mother of Diana, Princess of Wales, who died on the island of Seil in 2004	Frances Shand Kydd
Peter Campbell from Rhu was one of the four founding members of this leading football club	Rangers
Island whose Norse name means 'Deer Island' due to its population of around 7000 red deer	Jura
Strait between the above island and Scarba which is notorious for tidal currents and whirlpools	Corryvreckan
Southwestern-most point of a peninsula in Argyll and Bute, later immortalised in a 1977 song by Paul McCartney	Mull of Kintyre
Town on the above peninsula that has a ferry service to Ardrossan	Campbeltown
Author who finished writing 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' while living at a farmhouse called 'Barnhill'	George Orwell
Principal town on the Isle of Bute	Rothesay
Canal that connects Loch Gilp with the Sound of Jura, providing a much shortened navigable route between the River Clyde and the Inner Hebrides	Crinan Canal

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