1. What’s the name of the light-sensitive tissue lining the rear of the eye?

2. Which Scottish city has the area dialling code 01382 — Aberdeen, Dundee or Stirling?

3. What was the name of the heroine of the musical Evita?

4. How many of the 189 defenders of the Alamo were Scottish — 4, 14 or 44?
5. What is the alternative name for the water moccasin snake — the Cottonmouth or the Cottontail?

6. The Khyber Pass links Pakistan to which other country?

7. Name one of the three Scottish sites in the UK’s shortlist for becoming World heritage Sites.

8. The musician who calls himself “Moby” does so because he is a descendent of Herman Melville, the author of which adventure yarn?

9. DotScot is a campaign to ensure Scotland gets what?

10. What was the much shorter name of the film based on the book A Kestrel For A Knave?

11. On the tonic “so-fa” scale, what comes between “re” and 
“fa”?

12. Which river is longer — the Spey or the Clyde?

13. Rose Red is the sister of which fairytale character?

14. What does the Gaelic phrase “Failte gu Alba” mean in English?

15. Sacramento is the capital of which of the United States of America?

16. Which book was thought to have been written by Bram Stoker at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay?

17. How many parties would be involved in bilateral talks?

18. Which country is home to the biggest population of Portuguese speakers?

19. What name was commonly given to national servicewomen who worked on farms during World War 2?

20. Whose first novel, The Hair Trunk, was rediscovered this year?

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, April 10, 2011

1. Retina. 2. Dundee. 3. Eva Peron. 4. Four. 5. The Cottonmouth. 
6. Afghanistan. 7. The Forth Rail Bridge, Mousa, Old Scatness or Jarlshof in Shetland. 8. Moby Dick. 9. An independent Internet domain. 10. Kes. 11. “Me”. 12. The Spey (by one kilometre!). 
13. Snow White. 14. “Welcome to Scotland”. 15. California. 
16. Dracula. 17. Two. 18. Brazil. 19. Land Girls. 
20. Robert Louis Stevenson.

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