Quarantine pretty much sucks, but at least it’s given me a chance to start getting caught up on Outlander. Which of course makes me want to go to Scotland. Except pandemic. So Scotland movie trivia will have to suffice for now.
I can’t watch any of the movies in this quiz without immediately developing an accent. So I’ll have to work on that before I go to actual Scotland, lest they kick me out of the country before I’ve had my fill of whisky.
Here’s a bonnie mini quiz of Scotland movie trivia. I can almost smell the heather on the moors…
Questions
- Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald gives voice to Merida, the heroine of “Brave,” but she wasn’t the performer originally cast. What Southern American Oscar-winner was signed on to the film, but had to drop out because she couldn’t master the Scottish accent?
- As seen in 2006’s “The Queen,” the British royal family received the news of Princess Diana’s untimely death while on holiday at what Scottish castle that has long been a favorite spot of Queen Elizabeth II?
- William Wallace, after returning home from an education abroad, doesn’t initially want any part of rebellion or clan politics, but he is incited to violence after a British magistrate murders what woman who he had married in secret?
- By what nicknames are Mark Renton’s Edinburgh pals Simon and Daniel better known in “Trainspotting”?
- The Hogwarts Express departs from Platform 9 3/4 in London, but its destination is in Scotland. Of the Harry Potter films’ characters, which student and which two faculty members are Scottish?
Answers up after Edinburgh’s own Bay City Rollers, who knew how to incorporate a good plaid into their stage costumes.
Answers
- Reese Witherspoon
- Balmoral
- Murron
- Sick Boy and Spud
- Oliver Wood, Minerva McGonagall, Alastor “Mad Eye” Moody
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