General Chat

14. Mary Kings Close?

Morning Christine Couldn't you sleep! Very good. Fourteen correct so far. Aileen

Ooh thanks Aileen.....stop me from getting bored! 1 Murrayfield 2 Rabbie Burns 3 The cobbled lanes? 4 Mons Meg 5 The Balmoral 6 Edinburgh Uni, Napier Uni and Heriot Watt uni 7 The Nor Loch 8 St Margaret 9 ??? 10 Sir Walter Scott? 11 King Georges sons 12Museum of Childhood? 13 Is it Clarissa Dickson Wright 14????? The Vaults? 15 Wilfred Owen and ?? 16 ?? 17 Newhaven 18 19 Patrick Geddes No bad for a Glesga keelie! LOL

1. Name Scotland’s international rugby football stadium 2. Which poet wrote “Edina, Scotia’s darling seat. All hail thy palaces and tow’rs. Where once beneath a monarch’s feet, Sat Legislation’s sov’reign pow’rs 3. What are the “wynds” 4. Name the 15th century cannon displayed in Edinburgh Castle 5. What is the name of the former North British Hotel above Waverly Station 6. Name Edinburgh’s three universities 7. Name the stagnant loch drained in 1759-63 to extend Edinburgh into the New Town and is now the site of Princes Street Gardens and the main railway line 8. Who is the tiny chapel at the highest point of Castle Rock dedicated to 9. Which Battle of Britain fighter squadron was based at Turnhouse Airport during WW2 10. When the Old Tolbooth was demolished in 1817 which Scottish writer acquired its door and key for his own house 11. Which princes are commemorated in the name of Princes Street 12. Which museum founded in 1955 in Lady Stair’s House is now in Hyndford House in the High Street 13. Which TV cook opened a bookshop solely for cookery books in West Bow in 1995 14. Which alley now buried under the City Chambers was walled up after an outbreak of plague in 1645 15. Which two WW1 poets convalesced at Craiglockhart Hospital after returning from the Western Front 16. A bronze sculpture of which philosopher wearing a toga was unveiled in 1997 in front of the High Court of Justiciary 17. Which dockyard was the birthplace of Great Michael launched in 1511 by King James IV during his arms race against his brother in law Henry VIII 18. In 1840 which Swiss born geologist identified at the foot of Blackford Hill, grooves/striations on an overhanging rock which proved his theory of a series of Ice Ages 19. Which Scots born botanist/town planner established a sociological lab in the Outlook Tower at the top of Castlehill which now houses the Camera Obscura 20. During the Scottish Enlightenment of the late 18th century which English visitor said “Here I stand at what is called the Cross of Edinburgh, and can in a few minutes take 50 men of genius by the hand”

Don't say I'm not good to you Christine. Enjoy. Aileen