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1. Which method of execution was invented in Scotland?

a) The electric chair

b) The guillotine

c) The gas chamber

2. Which Scottish aristocrat earned notoriety during her sensational divorce case in the “swinging sixties” when her husband produced embarrassing polaroid photographs of her en flagrante with a “headless man”?

a) Countess of Ceres

b) Duchess of Argyll

c) Marchioness of Moray

3. Which Scottish lawyer observed, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave: When first we practise to deceive!”

a) Alex Prentice QC

b) Lord Braxfield

c) Sir Walter Scott

d) Sheriff Richard Davidson

4. Which Scottish law firm is thought to be the oldest in Scotland to retain its original name?

a) Lawson, Coull and Duncan

b) R&R Urquhart

c) Russel + Aitken

d) Brazenall & Orr

5. Which one of the following is NOT an offence in Scotland?

a) Sheipthreiving

b) Hamsesucken

c) Stouthrief

6. Which Scottish city was described by Lord Cockburn as “The Palace of Scottish Blackguardism” and “a sink of atrocity that no amount of moral flushing seems capable of cleansing”?

a) Glasgow

b) Edinburgh

c) Dundee

d) Aberdeen

7. Which well-known Scottish legal figure is a strict Sabbatarian?

a) Lord McCluskey

b) Lord Mackay of Clashfern

c) Lord Bonomy

d) Gordon Jackson QC

8. Who said “courts for cowards were erected?”

a) Robert Burns

b) Robert Louis Stevenson

c) James Boswell

d) Tommy Sheridan

9. Which of the following Scottish politicians does NOT have a law degree?

a) Nicola Sturgeon

b) Annabelle Ewing

c) Mike Russell

d) Christine Graham

e) Roseanna Cunningham

10. Which Scottish writer was NOT a member of the Faculty of Advocates?

a) Sir Walter Scott

b) Robert Louis Stevenson

c) James Boswell

d) Willie McIntyre

11. Which Scottish-born lawyer and Founding Father played a major part in drafting the US Constitution?

a) James Blair

b) Alexander Hamilton

c) James Wilson

12. The murder of the Regent of Scotland, the Earl of Moray, in 1570 was the world’s first recorded assassination by a firearm. Which Sheriff Court has a plaque commemorating the event?

a) Inverness

b) Kirkcaldy

c) Linlithgow

13. Which revolutionary lawyer cited John Knox as a moral authority for rebellion in a speech from the dock?

a) Nelson Mandela

b) Fidel Castro

c) Vladimir Lenin

14. What is the name of the police officer in the Oor Wullie cartoon?

a) Maclean

b) Macaskill

c) Macleod

d) Murdoch