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World Changing Scottish Folk!

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World Changing Scottish Folk game quiz
"Blowing the trumpet of famous 'Scottish born people who helped to change the world'!"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Who is one of the foremost pioneers credited with inventing and transmitting the first electromechanical television?
    Guglielmo Marconi
    Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton
    Walter Bruch
    John Logie Baird


2. Who discovered penicillin?
    Howard Walter Florey
    Norman George Heatley
    Ernst Boris Chain
    Alexander Fleming


3. Who developed the concept of logarithms and popularized the decimal point?
    William Bourne
    Gemma Frisius
    John Dee
    John Napier


4. Who founded the Bank of England?

    George Watson
    William Paterson
    William Boyd
    Henry Duncan


5. Who invented and patented the telephone?
    William Brodie
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Antonio Meucci
    Charles Sumner Tainter


6. Who invented the kaleidoscope?
    Charles Stewart Parnell
    Sir David Brewster
    Charles Rennie Mackintosh
    Sir Walter Scott


7. Who invented lighting by coal gas?
    William Murdoch
    Matthew Boulton
    James Watt
    William Fairbairn


8. Who created world or 'standard time' zones?

    Michael Fleming
    Ian Flemming
    Sandford Flemming
    Alexander Flemming


9. Who was the first person to suggest a forensic use for fingerprints?
    Henry Faulds
    James Marsh
    Francis Galton
    Joseph Bell


10. Which Scottish born writer was devoted to raising awareness and improving the life of women and children in Australia? Her image appears on a commemorative version of the Australian five dollar note.
    Clara Morison
    Catherine Spence
    Jeanne F. Young
    Colleen McCulloch


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