Ayrshire Quiz

Ayrshire Quiz

Straightforward quiz this year - you either know the answer or you don't. If anyone scores 40/40 I'll presume you googled the answer! The Ooter with the highest score will be let off with one week's kitty contribution! Email me your answers or hand in by Wednesday the 23rd January. Any collusion will result in a punishment exercise!
Answers will be posted after the closing date.
Best of luck!
Davie



Answers are places in AYRSHIRE

1. Which place was first known as Glengall Asylum when it was built in 1869?
2. What height does Ailsa Craig rise to - 910, 1110 or 1310 feet?
3. Where are the ruins of the old House of Auchans?
4. What town was originally known as New Kilmarnock when it was first built in 1830 as a holiday settlement but later adopted the name of the local farm and burn?
5. We've been walking a couple of times at Barr. But where is Barr Castle?
6. Loch Bradan is the water supply for which town?
7. Where in Ayrshire did Sir Thomas Brisbane build an observatory for astronomical purposes?
8. Craig Tara Holiday Camp used to be Wonderwest World. Before that it was Butlin's. What was it before that?
9. What was the film "The Brave Don't Cry" about?
10. Who was gifted a guest flat in Culzean Castle as a thank you for his part in the Second World War?
11. What place name, according to some arguments, comes from Dame Helen's Town?
12. Dalquharran Castle is near Dailly. But where is Dalquharn House?
13. Which ruined castle (some of us have lunched in it) consists of 11 uneven sides?
14. Which 2 places in Ayrshire have names which originated in India?
15. Which loch has an islet in it, known as Peden's Isle, because it was a hiding place for the famous Covenanter?
16. A sandstone column marks the traditional spot where Robert Burns parted from his sweetheart Highland Mary. In which village is it?
17. Which village was historically divided into two, the Laigh part being home to weavers,  and the High or Kirkton part having a large concentration of shoemakers?
18. Which famous person was born at Lochfield Farm and received his secondary education at Kilmarnock Academy?
19. Where is Scotland's oldest railway viaduct, built in 1807?
20. Where is "Old Stumpy", the former tollbooth of this particular town?
21. Bill Shankly was born in Glenbuck. Name the four teams he played for!
22. Which firm produced the country's first ever wave-making machine for a municipal swimming pool?
23. What is the name of the RSPB nature reserve islet just outside of Ardrossan Harbour?
24. Where was John Galt, author of "Annals of the Parish" born?
25. What is the name of the castle perched on the headland near Doonfoot?
26. Where will you find the graves of Douglas Graham, John Davidson, "Kirkton" Jean Kennedy, the originals from Tam o' Shanter?
27. Which castle in Ayrshire takes its name from the conical hill nearby, which has a prehistoric fort on its summit?
28. Near where did William Wallace defeat an English force in 1297? (The site also had a Roman fort in the vicinity.)
29. Where is there a cairn commemorating John Loudoun McAdam, road builder?
30. Where is the Mother Lodge of the Masonic movement, the oldest known lodge in Scotland?
31. Which edifice is still listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest masonry arch in Britain, built in 1848?
32. Which famous person learned how to heckle flax in Irvine in 1781?
33. Where is Tibbie's Brig, named after Isobel "Tibbie" Pagan, poetess and contemporary of Robert Burns?
34. Above which village is the Auld Hill, with the remains of a fort and dun on it? In 1913 an unsolved murder took place in the cottage on the seaward side of the hill.
35. What was the name of the cannibal who inhabited with his family a cave in a small bay known as Balcreuchan Port near Bennane Hill on the Coastal Path?
36. And which two places mark the beginning and end of the aforementioned Coastal Path?
37. The old bridges at Sorn and Stair both still carry vehicular traffic. But which is the older?
38. On the road between which two villages will you find Cloncaird Castle?
39. The ninth hole of which golf course is known as Bruce's Castle? It has one of the most spectacular tees in the world, being perched on a rock.
40. Which of these Junior football teams has never been in the final of the Scottish Cup -  Lugar Boswell, Darvel, Irvine Victoria or Glenafton Athletic?