1. St Kilda is part of which group of islands? US Virgin Islands Aleutians Micronesia British Isles

2. St Kilda is known to have been inhabited since: None of these The early 1700s The Highland clearances The Stone Age

3. The most recent inhabitants of St Kilda came from: Glasgow Iceland They were all members of the same clan, scattered throughout Scotland The Hebrides

4. St Kilda is most famous for the fact that Bonnie Prince Charlie used it as a refuge when fleeing Scotland in 1745, following the defeat of the Jacobite uprising. True False

5. Although St Kilda today has a diverse population of seabirds and other wildlife, what two species are known to be extinct on the island? The Great Auk and the Soay sheep The Great Auk and the St Kildan miniature goat The Great Auk and the St Kilda house mouse The Great Auk and the Fulmar

6. For many years the St Kildans were self-sufficient and lived off the land. What component made up a large portion of their diet? seabirds oats fish mutton and lamb

7. Despite its long history of habitation, no-one lives on St Kilda today. What happened to the people who once lived there? They were evacuated They were captured by Germans during WWII They were wiped out by a tidal wave No one knows

8. Before the last inhabitants disappeared from St. Kilda's, they sent out a plea for help. How did they do this? Two of the islanders travelled by boat to Benbecula and asked the people there to help them They used semaphore to signal a passing ship They used the only telephone on the island to contact family members on the mainland and asked them to send a boat They put a message in bottle

9. What happened to St. Kilda after the last inhabitants left? It was used as a whaling station It was re-populated in the 1960s by a back-to-the-land commune from Bristol It was sold It is now used for chemical weapons testing

10. A recent discovery on St. Kilda has shed some light on the increasing problem of food shortage on the island in the later years of habitation. What was it? Evidence of a sharp decline in seabird populations Traces of heavy metal poisoning in the soil The detection of a type of crop destroying mould unique to the island Evidence of excessive rainfall during times of food shortage