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Ten questions concerning the history and use of artificial waterways in England.

Professor Moriarty is widely known as the "arch-enemy" of Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle's stories. How true is this, and what do you know of this villain?

Ten questions on the life and work of the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The original bridge across the estuary of the River Tay at Dundee in Scotland, built for and owned by the North British Railway (N.B.R.), fell in a storm just over eighteen months after its official opening. Let's have a poke amongst the wreckage.

This is a quiz about the eighteenth-century surgeon and anatomist John Hunter. Although Scottish by birth, he spent his working life in England. It makes reference to John's elder brother William, and remarks on medical history pertain to Great Britain

What do you know about the story of these fascinating and successful German aircraft?

The Austin Champ was an idiosyncratic four-wheel drive vehicle produced by the Austin Motor Company for the British Army in the 1950s. Some knowledge of military vehicles of the period would be helpful!

Rockall is an isolated islet in the North Atlantic. You might have heard the name, but what do you know about it?

Some quotations by Scots people, most of whom are or were authors, but with one or two others thrown in.

George Edward Challenger is less well-known than Sherlock Holmes, but the five stories and novels which Conan Doyle wrote about him are still read and enjoyed today.