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 Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:57 pm
 Well, it's what the Scots call Burns' Night (the anniversary of the birth of Scotland's favorite poet, Robert Burns), and lookit wha' we've got here: a pretty Scottish lassie with Jacobite tendencies got lost on her way to her Burns' Night party. Fortunately, she loves this place so much, she wants to stay here, so she needs someone to crash with, and that someone could be you. Sadly, though, she's proving picky: she wants to see how much you guys know about Scotland and wants to give you a ticket for each correct answer on this survey she wrote--ah, actually, dictated to me. xd This contest closes Friday, 11:59pm PST, when she stops accepting entries and will have me roll to see who she's going to stay with. So how do you get tickets? You fill out the trivia form in the next post. Each correct answer will get you a ticket. The more correct answers you have, the more tickets you get. Who knows, we might even award you for style. wink You can use any source you'd like, whether you Wiki it or ask your dear, crotchety old Nanny. There *are* some pretty dang simple questions mixed in with some nasty questions for those who live and breathe Scottish life, to be fair. Seriously, if you're like that, you're either a cultural Celt like me, or you have an obsession with people like me. xd So, please, will ye no' step in out o' the cauld o' Januar' and gie this lassie a shot at a guid hame? (For non-Scots: D'you wanna try to get her? 8D)
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:17 am
1. What is the national flower and the national animal of Scotland?
2. Most European nations have a patron saint: which is Scotland's saintly patron?
3. Name the official Scottish national anthem and as many of the four unofficial Scottish national anthems as you can.
4. What does the white cockade symbolize?
5. Name and give a youtube link to your favorite Robert Burns poem. Yes, Auld Lang Syne counts. >>
6. Where did the famous flat Scottish bonnet, the tam o'shanter, get its name?
7. There's an almost twin pair of castles in Scotland, as unassailable as castles can be: which castles are they?
8. Is Braveheart a real person?
9. What is the "Auld Alliance?"
10. How many verses have you heard of "The Scotsman?" >D
11. Did the last question make you snicker or blush? No shame either way. Not even if you had to look up the song in question and then snickered or blushed.
12. What supposedly lives in Loch Ness?
13. Name as many Gaia items as you can that are Scottish in origin. (I can think of eight off the top of my head...)
14. What species of faery is the Kelp o' the Loch based off of?
15. Quote the most famous line of the Declaration of Arbroath (the world's first Declaration of Independence, and the ancestor of our own Declaration).
16. If you have any Scottish ancestry, name the last clan you know of in your direct ancestry. If not...spit out a random fact about Scotland~! 8D
17. What proof is single malt Scotch whiskey? Yes, elfy can drink that stuff, just not a whole shot glass yet. D8
18. Name your favorite domestic breed of animal native to Scotland. Horses, dogs, cattle, sheep, and cats *do* count for this.
19. In Celtic music, there's four tempos, but in Scotland, there's FIVE native tempos. List as many as you can, and specify which tempo is Scottish alone.
20. Last question: Post a youtube link to your favorite Scottish song by your favorite Scottish singer or band, so long as the whole shindig is Scottish. 8D Post your answers in a consolidated post in this thread. You're done~! 8D *Has been killed so many different ways and left in so many tiny and bloody particles that it's not even funny*
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:19 am
Tickets
1-28. Mikaiela
29-37. kitsune_reflection
38-70. Celestial Requiem
71-100. Geyser Eelborn <==FAIL, YOU KNOW PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING, MY JO.
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:20 am
It's open, I just need to persuade PB to let me upload the damn preview. ><
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:55 pm
1. Thistle; Unicorn 2. Saint Andrew 3. Flower of Scotland; Scotland the Brave, A Man's A Man for A' That, Scots Wha Hae, Highland Cathedral (We played that one in band =3) 4. Allegiance, part or rank of the wearer 5. 'Comin' Thro the Rye' (had to learn that one when we were reading 'Catcher in the Rye') 6. From the Robert Burns poem, 'Tam O'Shanter' 8. Yes, Sir William Wallace 9. An alliance between Scotland and France 10. Well, now all of them XD 11. A little 12. Niseag13. Spirit of Scotland, Angus/Kinzie/Mackintosh the Scottie Plushie, Blue/Green/Red Scott Hat, Blue/Cream/Pink Scott Socks, Blue/Green/Red Kilt, Sporran, Scott Shoes, Blue/Cream/Pink Scott Shirt, Scott Coat, Blue/Green/Red Tartan 14. Mainly the Kelpies, but there is a pose that is Cu Sith 15. "For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."16. The motto of Scotland is ‘No one provokes me with impunity’. 17. 120 18. Peregrine Falcon
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:19 pm
I hope you're ready for this. 1. Magic ones, white roosters 2. Saint Irelandicus 3. Welcome to Scottland Welcome to Scottland It is very, very nice. 4. That Ireland likes white roosters; see answer 1. 5. This one6. Tammy McShanter sat on her bonnet and squished it. It was horrendously tragic. D: 7. Kniggit and Elderberry 8. YES. 9. Badly spelled. 10. None. ALL OF THEM. 11. Not really, it just went "The Scotsman The Scotsman The Scotsman" over and over again. 12. Nessie! Who's a good monster? Who's a good monster? You are! *mauled* BAD NESSIE. 13. Kelp o' the Loch? 8D 14. KELPIE! 15. "I, Arbroath, do hereby declare we shalt have a wild rumpus." 16. Scotland has a loch in it. 17. 80 bazillion hundred! 18. The white rooster. D< 19. 4/4, Cut time, jig, 3/4, shoop da woop. 20. YES.
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moineau bavarde Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:00 pm
XD Kit... 1. Thistle and unicorn. 2. Andrew 3. "Flower of Scotland", “Scots Wha Hae”, "Scotland the Brave", "Highland Cathedral", "A Man's A Man for A' That" 4. support of Jacobitism? o__o'' 5. Because it's the only one I know! D8 Auld Lang Syne. *fails*6. named after the character Tam o' Shanter in the poem of that name by Robert Burns 7. I'ma take a guess and say one is Edinburgh. 8D;; 8. Yus. William Wallace. 9. An alliance between Scotland and France. 10. *shame* 11. *points to 10* TOO LATE! D8 12. PADDLES!!! (AKA a dino botsaur called a plesiosaur-or something within that family-AKA Nessie) 13. All of the Scott items (hat, shirt, coat, socks, shoes), the three dogs, the kilts, spirit of scotland. 14. Kelpie~ 15. For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. 16. McInnis. I think. 8|;; 17. 120? 18. Border Collie! 19. Jig, slide, hornpipes....*hasnoclue* 20. IMA FILL THIS ONE IN LATER BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAS CELTIC MUSIC AT HOME I JUST DUN MEMBER WHAT IT IS! D8<
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:35 pm
I'm posting this now...I'll finish it later xDDD 1. Thistle; Unicorn 2. Andy Andrew 3. Whiskey You're the Devil! Yer leaden me astray~! 4. AH’M A JACOBITE, LADDY, AND YER GOEN DOON, YE BLOODY ENGLISH PANSY!! 5. Braes O'Killiecrankie6. Tam would always say he wouldn't do things, so people called him Tam Shan't, or Tam O' Shanter. And he had a kick[English]a** hat. Both Tam C. Wahrs: I'M OFFENDED. Shhh!! Monty: It's true. He wouldn't clean his room or anything. Tam the Elder: SHUT UP, SIS. 7. Corgarff (sp?) and Ffragroc 8. William Wallace, noo? 9. The official whiskey of the Association of English Haters. 10. [ SNORT] None, but I’ve read like…5 or six! (teehee!! >33 ) 11. Snigger. [ SNORK] Teehee!! 12. Nessy…a alien dragon kelpie dinosaur figment of your imagination Maximal Predacon Sharkticon Freelancer Red Blue pirate ninja cowboy video game reviewer I DON’T KNOW, BUT I’MMA BE A BIOLOGIST AND FIND OUT! 13. Kelp o’ the Loch, Spirit of Scotland, the Scott set (which includes the kilts, socks/flashes, ghillies, coat, shirts, tam o’ shanters, sporran, and sashes). 14. Kelpeh~ 15. I say, let's whack some English heads for independence, wot wot! 16. Stuart! So…yes, I’m related to Jimmy and that twit Charlie of England. [ GAG] 17. 80-92 or so. 18. Scottish fold. And all the adorable widdle terriers! 19. Jig, strathspey (SCOTTISH, YO), slipjig, jig, and reel 20. Atholl Gathering FTW
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elfstar89 rolled 1 100-sided dice:
48
Total: 48 (1-100)
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:26 am
Rolling the winner, when I post the winner, I'll post correct answers...and give myself max points. >D
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:44 am
Cel, mah jo, please post certin' info in mah certin' thread. ^^ 1. The thistle (because some clever Vikings sneaking up on the Scots barefoot stepped on one and screamed like a giiirrrlll) and the unicorn 2. Saint Andrew; the Scots saw a formation of clouds that looked like Saint Andy's cross before an important battle. xd 3. Official: God Save the Queen (they're still part of the UK, dears, last time I checked); Unofficial: (an official list of unofficial anthems, silly, eh?) Flower of Scotland, A Man's a Man For A' That, Scotland the Brave, Scots Wha Hae; I've never heard of Highland Cathedral being an unofficial anthem, but it *might* be used by certain marching or pipe bands, I'm just listing the stuff the Scots are *supposed* to sing at national events and what they *actually* usually sing. xd 4. the Jacobite cause 5. Sorreh, mah deary-o's, a Stewart I was born, sae I maun support mah clan. ^^;6. From the Robert Burns poem Tam O'Shanter 7. Edinburgh and Stirling 8. Yesh, he ish~! 8D 9. The alliance between the Scots and the French 10. I think so 11. When I first heard it, yes. oO 12. ZOMFG, IS THAT NESSIE OVER THAR??? 13. Sporran, tam o'shanter (3 colors), sash (3 colors), kilt (3 colors), ghillies, kilt hose (3 colors), Scott shirt (3 colors), Scott jacket, Kelp o' the Loch, Spirit of Scotland, terriers 14. Kelpie 15. For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. 16. I'm only 1/32nd Scots, but I'm descended from the Royal Branch of Clan Steward~! >D *Shot by any and all Hanoverian sympathizers, who are shot by the Jacobites* 17. AT LEAST 80 proof (at least 40% pure alcohol) O.O 18. Clydesdale 19. Slip-jig, jig, hornpipe, reel, strathspey (the only native Scottish tempo) 20. Not my favorite version of the song, or my favorite band, but my favorite song.Possible points: 41. I am a verrah devoted Scotswumman, my jo's. <33333333333
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