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Q1. What was the exact date of Prince Charles Edward Stewart’s birth?
ANSWER: 31 December 1720

Q2. Charles went on tour in the year 1737.  To which part of Europe did his travels take him?
ANSWER: Northern Italy
 
Q3. Who were ‘the Seven Men of Glenmoriston’?
ANSWER: They were the seven men who helped Charles in his period of hiding after Culloden and prior to his escape from Scotland

Q4. Where was Flora Macdonald taken to for imprisonment after her arrest?
ANSWER: The Tower of London
 
Q5. What was the name of the Englishman among ‘the Seven Men of Moidart’?
ANSWER: Francis Strickland

Q6. Which part of Edinburgh remained in the possession of the government troops after Charles’s entry to Edinburgh?
ANSWER: Edinburgh Castle

Q7. How many months did Charles remain in Scotland after Culloden?
ANSWER: Five months
 
Q8. In which year was Charles’s daughter born?
ANSWER: 1753

Q9. Whom did Charles marry in 1772?
ANSWER: Princess Louise of Stolberg
 
Q10. What was the name of the man for whom Charles’s wife left him in 1780?
ANSWER: Vittorio Alfieri

Questions taken from The Scottish Quiz Book published by Waverley Publishing – a collection of 3,000 thematically arranged questions covering all aspects of Scotland’s life.

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