Scottish Film, TV and Books questions and answers

01Who wrote the 1932 Scottish novel Sunset Song, the first book of A Scots Quair?

1. Lewis Grassic Gibbon
2. Neil M. Gunn
3. George Mackay Brown
4. Hugh MacDiarmid

02Which Scottish writer created the character Peter Pan?

1. J. M. Barrie
2. Kenneth Grahame
3. Lewis Carroll
4. Rudyard Kipling

03What are the names of the two pensioners at the centre of the Scottish sitcom Still Game?

1. Jack and Victor
2. Tam and Winston
3. Navid and Boabby
4. Shug and Isa

04Who wrote the 1993 novel Trainspotting, set among residents of Leith in Edinburgh?

1. Irvine Welsh
2. Iain Banks
3. James Kelman
4. Alan Warner

05In which Scottish city is the detective television series Taggart set?

1. Glasgow
2. Edinburgh
3. Aberdeen
4. Dundee

06The 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore! is based on a novel by which Scottish author?

1. Compton Mackenzie
2. Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Neil M. Gunn
4. John Buchan

07Which Scottish author wrote the 1886 adventure novel Kidnapped?

1. Robert Louis Stevenson
2. Walter Scott
3. John Buchan
4. Arthur Conan Doyle

08The television crime series Shetland is based on novels by which writer?

1. Ann Cleeves
2. Val McDermid
3. Ian Rankin
4. Denise Mina

09Who directed the 1983 comedy Local Hero, set in a village on the west coast of Scotland?

1. Bill Forsyth
2. Danny Boyle
3. Ken Loach
4. Lynne Ramsay

10Who directed and starred in the 1995 film Braveheart, which tells the story of William Wallace?

1. Mel Gibson
2. Ridley Scott
3. Kevin Costner
4. Angus Macfadyen