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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 04 January 2008 - Volume 04
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: Tom Mc Rae <<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Scottish Cityizenship Test...Would YOU Pass ?</span><br><br></span><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">SCOTTISH CITIZENSHIP TEST</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_0">
Australia</span>
now requires all would be citizens to take a citizenship test to
ascertain their knowledge of our history, culture, geography, and sport
using multiple choice questions. With plans afoot for total
Independence <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_1">this may</span> serve as the basis for a similar test in Scotland.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Questions are not multiple choice and topics are mixed. Answers are given below.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">10 points each answer double for questions 1 & 15. Penalties for major errors. Minimum points to qualify 200.</span></font>
</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 1. What happened in 1707 ? Where was the Treaty signed.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 2. Translate "Charlie came hame steamin'"</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 3. What is ginguhr ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 4. Name three major Scottish types.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 5. Who are "Ra Peepuhl" ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 6. How do Scottish chip shops differ from those in England ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 7. What is the Hamden Roar ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 8. What do you do if somebody yells "SHOAT !!" ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 9. What is lumunade ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">10. Name three major Scottish types.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">11. Would you ask for a whisky in a Scottish pub ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">12. What nationality was Bonnie Prince Charlie ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">13. What is the generic name for all Scottish males ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">14. English draught beers are either Mild or Bitter what are the two types in Scotland ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">15. Who sang "Ah Belong Tae Glesca", Did he really ? (Double points if both </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> answers given).</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">16. During a singsong in a Scottish pub would you stand up and sing "The Sash" ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">17. What is a Wee Heavy ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">18. What armies fought at Culloden in 1746 ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">19. Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">20. Name the two <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_2">
Edinburgh</span> fitbaw teams.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">21. What is a Jake a Loo ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">22. What is Stairheid Dynamite ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">23 Where is the Scottish Parliament Building ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">24. Where is <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_3">
St Giles Cathedral</span> ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">25. What is The Canongate named after ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Would you pass the test ?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;">
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;">
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">ANSWERS.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 1. Union of the Parliaments signed in a summer house within Moray House in <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_4">
Edinburgh</span>'s Canongate.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 2. Charles returned home totally drunk.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 3. Generic name for any soft drink, more commonly in the Glasgow area.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 4. Irn Bru; Tiser, and Vimto. (3 points each for first two an d4 for Vimto)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> NB Claims that a scotch terrier found hiding in a crate of the latter caused the shop keeper</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> to ask "An' whoat's that dug daein' in ra Vimto" Gave rise to a song about a pooch in a </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> window should be regarded suspiciously.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 5. Supporters of Celtic football team in <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_5">
Glasgow</span>.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 6.
English shop sell several varieties of fish with chips. Scottish shops
sell any fish you want so long as it's haddock and an array of deep
fried items ranging from meat pies to Mars bars.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 7. The yell of the crowd of supporters at a Rangers football game.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 8. This is the cry of the lookout during nefarious activities best to run for it.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> 9. Generic name for any soft drink, more commonly in the Edinburgh area.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">10. Irn Bru; Tiser, and Vimto. (3 points each for first two and 4 for Vimto:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">11. Not if you want to be taken for a Scot. Pubs have a huge range of brands of whisky and</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> a True Scot orders by name.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">12. He was born in <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_6">
Italy</span>, his sole link with Scotland being his ancestry.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> If you answered Scottish deduct 25 points.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">13. Jimmy.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">14. Light and Heavy.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">15. Sir Harry Lauder. No he came from <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_7">
Edinburgh</span>'s Portobello.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">16. Only if you have a death wish, this is guaranteed to start a brawl.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">17. One third of a pint of liquid dynamite more commonly known as Strong Ale. A dark brew</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> that makes you steamin'.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">18. The rebel Jacobites and Loyalist Hanoverian government army. If you answered</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> Scots and English deduct 50 points.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">19. <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_8">Robert Burns
</span> of course.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">20. Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">21. One who appreciates the benefits of drinking methylated spirits.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">22. A drink for advanced Jakes a Loo now obsolete with gas lighting in tenement stairways</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> being replaced by electricity. The cocktail was made as follows...</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">a. Buy a large bottle of lemonade or ginguhr.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">b. Pour off half.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">c, Add a medicine bottle of methylated spirit and the supernatant fluid from a can of Brasso</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> poured into a jar and left to stand for a few hours.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">d. Find a tenement stair with a working gas mantle. Turn off gas, poke out mantle and bubble</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> gas through cocktail mixture. Replace screw cap, shake well, and retire to nearest park to </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> enjoy. NB Finding a working gas mantle in areas where the Jakes a Loo prevailed could be </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> difficult.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> Take a 25 points bonus if you got this one right but deduct 200 if you are a regular user.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">23. Bottom of the Canongate near Palace.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">24. Nowhere ! Presbyterians have no cathedrals. Name's a misnomer.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">25. Originally a walkway for priests and monks from Holyrood Abbey.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<br>Regards</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
Tom Mc Rae</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
Brisbane Australia</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us</font></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1199462830_9">Robert Burns</span></font></div><br>
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