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Exploring Edinburgh: A Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge about Edinburgh with this engaging quiz covering various aspects of the city including its leadership, history, culture, and demographics.

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1 What is the leader of Edinburgh called?

2 What time offset in UTC is Edinburgh in during daylight savings?

3 When was Edinburgh established?

4 What is the urban population of Edinburgh?

5 What is the postcode of Edinburgh?

6 [51] The ________ opened its new global headquarters at Gogarburn in the west of the city in October 2005; its registered office remains in St.

7 Which of the following titles did Edinburgh have?

8 Which of the following subdivisions is Edinburgh in?

9 Who of the following is/was the leader of Edinburgh?

10 [72] Heriot-Watt traces its origins to 1821, when a school for technical education of the ________ was opened.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • during engineering work in 1979, the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months.
  • the 1687 diary of Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid records the earliest known golfing instructions.
  • the Edinburgh publisher, James Donaldson, bequeathed the funds for Donaldson's Hospital.
  • the medieval town walls of Edinburgh served better throughout their history as a trade barrier than as a defensive one.
  • an Edinburgh judge and Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange (pictured), kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for 13 years in remote parts of western Scotland.
  • Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch, chief of Clan Scott, survived the Battles of Flodden and Pinkie Cleugh only to be murdered in the High Street of Edinburgh in 1552.
  • Gladstone's Land (pictured) is a restored six-storey-high tenement building, built in 1550, and situated on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
  • Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Kirk o' Field (pictured) in Edinburgh was the location of one of the world's great unsolved historical mysteries, the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567.
  • Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz, webmasters for Harry Potter fansites, were the only Americans invited to Edinburgh to interview J.K. Rowling the day after the Half-Blood Prince was released.
  • Scottish and British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh's Princes Street.
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