Put your feet up, grab a cup of coffee and pit your wits against our puzzles and quizzes


What year is it? USE THE CLUES AND PICTURES TO HELP GUESS THE YEAR.


1. Princess Elizabeth announces her engagement to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.


2. Rock musician David Bowie is born.


3. American ganster Al Capone dies at the age of 48.


4. Swedish company SAAB produces its fi rst automobile.


5. Academy-Award winning Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Cat Concerto, is released to theatres.


02 General knowledge 1. Which Glaswegian chemist invented the raincoat in 1824?


2. Who designed the Wemyss Bay railway station on the Firth of Clyde?


3. Where was the novelist John Buchan born?


4. How many bottles of whisky does Scotland export every second?


5. When was the Act of Union passed which dissolved the Scottish Parliament in order to create the United Kingdom?


6. How many were killed in Scotland’s worst mining accident in 1877 in Blantyre?


7. Which Scotsman wrote: ‘The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.’


8. Where was Sir Walter Scott inspired to write The Lady of the Lake.


9. Where can you see the oldest oak trees in Scotland, planted in the mid-12th century by King David I?


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10. Which Englishman’s army tried unsuccessfully in 1562 to steal the Crown Jewels of Scotland?


SUDOKU DIFFICULTY: HARD 05


ENTER DIGITS FROM 1 TO 9 INTO THE BLANK SPACES. EVERY ROW MUST CONTAIN ONE OF EACH DIGIT. SO MUST EVERY COLUMN, AS MUST EVERY 3X3 SQUARE.


LAST MONTH’S SOLUTION IS SHOWN RIGHT.


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WORD SEARCH: INCREDULOUS How many English words can you make from the word above? We can fi nd 400. Try to fi nd as many as possible. Words must be at least three letters.


100 WORDS: GOOD, 150 WORDS: EXCELLENT, 200 WORDS OR MORE: YOU ARE A GENIUS


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3 7


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5 2 4 6 9


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6 3


6 2


6 4 3


2 1 7 8 3 9 4 5 6


3 5 6


4 1 7


9 2 8


4 9 8 2 6 5 3 7 1


7 4 1 9 5 2 8 6


5 2 3


6 8 4


7 1 3 9 5


6 8 9 3 7 1 2 4


9 6 4 1 2 3 5 8 7


1 3 5


7 4 8


6 9 2


2 9


8 7 2 5 9 6 1 3 4


ANSWER: 1947


ANSWERS 1. Charles Macintosh 2. James Miller 3. Perth 4. 36 5. 1707 6. 207 men and boys 7. Thomas Carlyle 8. Loch Katrine 9. Chatelherault Country Park 10. Oliver Cromwell


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