Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Darvel born scientist and microbiologist who is best known for his discovery of penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 86%
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Largest town in East Ayrshire and the administrative centre of the council area | Kilmarnock | 84%
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The only motorway in East Ayrshire | M77 | 75%
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Andrew Fisher, born in Crosshouse, went on to be Prime Minister of this distant country | Australia | 68%
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River which begins near Loudounhill and enters the sea near its namesake town | Irvine | 66%
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Centrally located town at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the Lugar Water | Cumnock | 59%
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Grocer from East Ayrshire, who gave his name to what would become one of the world's most famous whisky brand names, despite being a teetotaler himself | Johnnie Walker | 59%
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Freshwater loch in the south of East Ayrshire | Loch Doon | 59%
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One of these iconic WW2 fighter aircraft crashed into the above loch in 1941. It was recovered in 1982 and subequently restored | Spitfire | 55%
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Born in Riccarton in 1764, Sir James Shaw later took up this leading civic post in London | Lord Mayor | 52%
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Astronomical observatory, located on a hilltop due to its low levels of light pollution | Scottish {Dark} {Sky} Observatory | 36%
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Glenbuck is the birthplace of this football manager who is best known for the success he brought to Liverpool | Bill Shankly | 32%
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East Ayrshire rock band whose album 'Opposites' topped the UK Albums Chart | Biffy Clyro | 23%
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John Boyd Orr, of Kilmaurs, was a teacher, doctor, physiologist and politician who was awarded this Nobel Prize for his scientific research into nutrition | Peace | 20%
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Biographer and Laird of Auchinleck who is best known for 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' | James Boswell | 18%
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