Ramble on: Ayrshire Stylee

A scenic view of Ayrshire, Scotland with highlights of historical landmarks and natural beauty, featuring the River Ayr and rural landscapes.

Ayrshire Stylee Quiz

Test your knowledge of Ayrshire and its rich history through this engaging quiz! Featuring questions on notable landmarks, local experts, and intriguing trivia, this quiz is perfect for anyone interested in Scottish culture.

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The Village of Sorn is on the River Ayr, but where is the River Sorn?

Islay

Mull

Argyle

Dumfries

Béton brut is used to describe the exposed concrete of brutalism, who coined the phrase?

Tadao Ando

Auguste Perret

Gustave Eiffel

Le Corbusier

Who was depicted on Trafalgar Square's fourth Plinth sculpture, titled 'pregnant'

Alison Moyer

Alison King

Alison Lapper

Alison Wonderland

Castanea Sativa is the latin name for which tree?

French Oak

English Elm

Spanish Chestnut

London Plane.

Who famously wrote "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life'

James Boswell

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Pepy's

Charles Dickens

Malton In Yorkshire is closest to which Historic Landscape?

Chatsworth House

Flamingo Land

Castle Howard

Rievaulx Terrace

Dollar Academy was designed by which prominent Architect?

Robert Adam

William Henry Playfair

James Gillespie Graham

William Chambers

Clenaghans is located near Moira, in Northern Ireland. Which district is it in?

Antrim

Craigavon

Lisburn

Banbridge

The tea clipper, Cutty Sark, is named after what?

Short dagger

Tobacco Snuff

Short Shirt

Torn Sail

SORN is a DVLA acronym for which term?

Seriously Offroad Racing Notice

Statutory Off Road Notification

Self Offer Removal Notice

Scottish Outside Recreation Nature

Who designed the Alison Lapper 'pregnant' sculpture on Trafalgar Square's fourth Plinth

Gary Hume

Anthony Gormley

Mark Quinn

Damien Hurst

Samuel Johnston's biographer, James Boswell, lived where?

Cumnock

Dumfries

Auchinleck

Kilmarnock

Turnberry golf course looks over Ailsa Craig, what is in geology terms?

A Drumlin

A glacial erratic

A Volcanic Plug

A crag and tail

Roseberry Topping is located where?

North Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

Cumbria

Lancashire

Eels proliferate in Lough Neagh, but where do they go to mate?

Clenaghans

The Sargasso Sea

The Mediterranean

The Black Sea

Nelsons column is modelled on which classical order of ancient architecture?

Doric

Tuscan

Ionic

Corinthian

Wick is famously a very very VERY northern town, what is one of its most famous attributes?

Worlds Shortest Street

Worlds Steepest Street

A Round Church

Worlds first Lighthouse

Gilmerton is located near Edinburgh, what was the towns main Historic Industry?

Coal Mining

Lead Mining

Bowling

Steel Mining

Former pupils of Rugby School are referred to as what?

Old Rugbeians

Old Ruglets

Old Rugbionians

Old Ruggers

Graeme Obree rode a bike made from old washing machine parts, what was the bike called?

The Speedster

Supermachine

Old Faithful

The Flying Scot

When Tam o' Shanter fled the witches, what was the witch chasing him wearing?

A nightie

A black gown

A Cutty Sark

Nothing

What was Tam o' Shanters trusty horse called?

Old Faithful

Maud

Meg

Nannie

Mither Tap is a hill in Aberdeen, What is its gaelic name?

Ben Bhragie

Bennachie

Braeriach

Ben Vrottan

Loch Mabon in Dumfriesshire has how many Lochs?

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