Wear the Fox Hat north of the border quiz

Ok, Wolfman demonstrated an exceptionally comprehensive knowledge of English Unitary Regions, but how about Scotland ?

Oodles of points can be won here by showing an interest in north of the border. And after this we may have a Wales and Northern Ireland one to follow too.

Listed are nine Scottish regional councils (or upper-tier authorities) with powers similar to an English administrative county, except that they exercise all the local government functions concerning roads and taxes.

Alongside each is a figure in brackets showing the number of Districts (some of them old-style counties) which have control of public libraries, recreation facilities, museums and waste disposal. The tenth question is about the authorities for the sparcely-populated island regions.

So, 56 points available, all you have to do is name the Districts, one point for each.
Discretionary bonus points for location of major cities, or - hey I feel generous - famous football clubs. (eg - the home of Raith Rovers: wear the fox hat ?)

1. Borders (4)
2. Central (3)
3. Dumfries and Galloway (4)
4. Fife (3)
5. Grampian (5)
6. Highland (8)
7. Lothian (4)
8. Strathclyde (19)
9. Tayside (3)
and for 10, Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles - in each case name the site of the administrative headquarters.

Good luck !

[mickthehammer]

Ok Tommo...I will give it a go!

1.DUNS (Berwick Rangers), HAWICK, PEEBLES, GALASHIELS.

This is a total guess! :-/

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

Ok Then raith rovers home ground is Stark’s Park ( they are a professional football club who currently play in the Scottish Football League (Division 2). Their Manager is former Hearts head coach John McGlynn who replaced former Hearts and Leicester Manager Craig Levein.

A famous victory in the 1960s led to the famous quote (commonly attributed to English commentator David Coleman - but actually said by Sam Leitch, a BBC sports broadcaster of the time) that the fans would be "dancing in the streets of Raith tonight." Clearly, Sam, although a Scotsman himself, was unaware of the club's actual location in Kirkcaldy.

Borders
Berwickshire
Ettrick and Lauderdale
Roxburgh
Tweeddale

Central
Clackmannan
Falkirk Home of the Bairns (Falkirk FC)
Stirling Home of Stirling Albion (are a football club currently playing in the Scottish Football League. The club are nicknamed The Binos (Beanos), or The Yo-Yos (given to them by fans lamenting their habit of being promoted to a higher division one year, and immediately relegated the following one). They play at Forthbank Stadium in Stirling, on the outskirts of the city near the River Forth. The club's badge depicts the Wallace Monument and the Ochil Hills.

Dumfries and Galloway
Annandale and Eskdale
Nithsdale
Stewartry
Wigtown (Wigtown (Gd: Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in the Machars of Galloway in the south west of Scotland , south of Newton Stewart and east of Stranraer. It has a population of about 1,000. It is well known today as Scotland's National Book Town and is home to a wealth of second-hand book shops.)

Fife
Dunfermline (Dunfermline Athletic Football Club is a Scottish football team based in Dunfermline, Fife. They are currently members of the Scottish Premier League, and finished runners up to Celtic in last season's Scottish League Cup final, played on March 19, 2006. They play at East End Park and are nicknamed The Pars. They are currently managed by Stephen Kenny
Kirkcaldy (Kirkcaldy YMCA F.C. is a Scottish junior football club based in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Their home ground is Denfield Park.)
The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006/7 season, and Kirkcaldy found themselves in the twelve-team East Region, Central Division.
North-East Fife

Grampian
Aberdeen (Aberdeen is Scotland's third largest city with a population of 202,370.[1] Locals call it the Granite City and the Silver City with the Golden Sands, since much of the city was built of grey granite which the loyal locals see as shimmering like silver in the sun.[4]. It is also called the Oil Capital of Europe after the discovery of North Sea oil. Football is best represented in Aberdeen with the Scottish Premier League football club, Aberdeen FC, who play at Pittodrie. The club's major success was winning the European Cup Winners Cup and the European Super Cup in 1983, and three Scottish Premier League Championships between 1980 and 1985. The other senior team is Cove Rangers F.C. of the Highland Football League (HFL), who play at Allan Park in the suburb of Cove Bay.[47]. Cove won the HFL championship in 2001.
Banff and Buchan
Gordon
Kincardine and Deeside
Moray

Highland
Badenoch and Strathspey
Caithness
Inverness
Lochaber
Nairn
Ross and Cromarty
Skye and Lochalsh
Sutherland

Lothian
East Lothian
Edinburgh (home of Edinburgh Castle, Heart of Midlothian FC who still play at Gorgie Road and thier arch rivals Hibernian who play at Easter Road in the Leith area of the city, also home to Meadowbank Thistle of Meadowbank stadium and about a million other local footie clubs! To many good things to say about my home town, if you haven't been GO!
Midlothian
West Lothian

Orkney Islands (Kirkwall. is the admin hq)
Orkney Islands

Strathclyde
Argyll
Bearsden and Milngavie
Clydebank
Clydesdale
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
Cumnock and Doon Valley
Cunninghame
Dumbarton
East Kilbride
Eastwood
Glasgow (Home of Glasgow Rangers Ibrox of course and Glasgow Celtic Parkhead)
Hamilton
Inverclyde
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Kyle and Carrick
Monklands
Motherwell
Renfrew
Strathkelvin

Shetland Islands (Lerwick. is admin hq and Shetland is also a lieutenancy area, comprises the Shetland constituency of the Scottish Parliament, and was formerly a county.
Shetland Islands

Tayside
Angus
Dundee
Perth and Kinross

Western Isles
Western Isles The Western Isles have been a unitary council area since 1975. In most of the rest of Scotland, however, similar unitary councils were not established until 1996. Since then the islands have formed one of the 32 unitary council areas which now cover the whole of Scotland. The Western Isles council is officially known by its Gaelic name, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, and known locally simply as 'the Comhairle' or 'a Chomhairle', having changed its name under the Local Government (Gaelic Names) (Scotland) Act 1997. The council has its base in Stornoway on Lewis.
Thats enough might add more footie, historical stuff laters!!!!

Sorry ruined it for everyone now!!!!

'Kinell Jock,
I show a slight passing interest in Scottish matters, and what do I get ? A tome equivalent to an A level examination paper on Scottish-ness. ;D A can hear the pipes ringing in my ears as i type this !
Anyway, I'll highlight in yellow what I agree with as answers to the questions, and then one day soon (before I turn old and grey hopefully ::)) I'll have a look at awarding some bonuses.

Right, 55.5 for Jock (and counting). Jock you forgot "and Bute" to go with Argyll.
Mick - I need to analyse your answers first and then may be able to award something for effort !

Leader:
[glow=red,2,300]Sir Jock o'the Strap 55.5pts[/glow]

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

Sorry, was doing this quite late last night, and not finished it yet!

Argyll and Bute (Kilmory House passed out of the Orde family in 1938. Thereafter there were a number of owners. For many years it was a Hostel and Conference Centre of the National Association of Mixed Youth Clubs. Later it reverted to a private hotel, but when it came on the market again in 1974, shortly before the re-organisation of local government in Scotland, it was acquired by Argyll County Council specifically for use as the Headquarters of Argyll and Bute District Council.

Clackmanan: Is actually Clackmananshire!
Rolling hills, fast flowing rivers, busy towns and pretty villages. Put these together with towers and castles straight out of a Disney movie and you have one of Scotland's best kept secrets - Clackmannanshire. A new bridge crossing the River Forth is due to be completed in 2008. Clackmannanshire has been campaigning for a new crossing for many years and is delighted that construction work has now started.

Tweeddale
Tweeddale extends from Broughton in the west to Innerleithen in the east, and from West Linton in the north to Tweedsmuir in the south. The River Tweed, now recognised as the best salmon fishing river in the world after posting record catches in 2002 and 2003, rises south of Tweedsmuir and bisects the area, Admin HQ Newtown St. Boswells

Roxburgh
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh (Siorrachd Rosbroig in Gaelic) is a registration county of Scotland.

Ettrick and Lauderdale (Eadaraig agus Srath Labhdair in Scottish Gaelic) was one of four local government districts in the Borders region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996.

The district was formed by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 from:

* The entire county of Selkirkshire
* Part of Berwickshire (the burgh of Lauder and most of the West district of the county)
* Part of Midlothian (Heriot and Stow)
* Part of Roxburghshire (the burgh of Melrose and most of Melrose district).

Berwickshire or the County of Berwick is today a registration county, a committee area of the Scottish Borders Council, and a lieutenancy area of Scotland, on the border with England. Berwickshire was formerly one of the ancient counties of Scotland, but was abolished in 1975 during local government reorganization. Its county town, after which it is named, had been Berwick-upon-Tweed, but the royal burgh changed hands in 1482, subsequently becoming part of the county of Northumberland, in England. The history of Berwick Rangers Football Club stretches back 124 years. Throughout that period there have been highs and lows, but there has always been a club. Berwick Rangers - Scottish League Division 3 Champions 2006/07 they play at Shielfield Park, Tweedmouth.

Clydebank play home matches at Glenhead Park based in the Duntocher district at the north of Clydebank. Nicknamed "the bankies" They share the ground with owners Drumchapel Amateurs.

Dumbarton Football Club Limited
Strathclyde Homes Stadium. Dumbarton functioned as the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde, and later as the county town of the county of Dunbartonshire, formerly known as "Dumbartonshire". The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Dùn Breatainn meaning "fort of the Brythons (Britons)". The Britons themselves knew it as Alt Clut, the "rock (or height) on the Clyde".

HAMILTON ACADEMICAL FC New Douglas Park
Cadzow Avenue. Hamilton is a large town in west central Scotland, which serves as the main administrative centre of the South Lanarkshire council area. It lies 12 miles south-east of Glasgow, and 35 miles south-west of Edinburgh. It sits on the south bank of the River Clyde, close to its confluence with the Avon Water. The town of Hamilton was originally known as Cadzow (the "z" representing the letter yogh, ie pronounced Cadihou), but was re-named in honour of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton. The Hamilton family constucted many landmark buildings in the area including the Mausoleum in Strathclyde Park, which has the longest echo of any building in Europe. Also Hamilton Palace was the largest non-Royal residence in the Western World, located in the north-east of the town. A former seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, it was built in 1695, subsequently much enlarged, and demolished in 1921 due to ground subsidence. It is widely acknowledged as having been one of the grandest houses in Scotland, was visited and admired by Queen Victoria, and was written about by Daniel Defoe.

Motherwell FC play at Fir Park Stadium. Motherwell (Tobar na Màthar in Gaelic) is a large town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow. The town was a burgh from 1865 until it merged with the burgh of Wishaw in 1920. Motherwell was noted as the steel production capital of Scotland, nicknamed Steelopolis, with its skyline dominated by the water tower and three cooling towers of the Ravenscraig steel plant which closed in 1992. The Ravenscraig plant had one of the longest continuous casting, hot rolling, steel production facilities in the world before it was decommissioned.

Dundee FC play at Dens Park Stadium

Dens Park Stadium Dundee FC's current home was officially opened on 19 August 1899. The Dee having previously occupied a ground at Carolina Port. To commemorate the centenary of Dens Park Stadium Dundee FC played Aris Thesolonika on 19 August 1999.

Dundee is also home to Dundee United who play at Tannadice Park.
Dundee (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Dèagh)—originally called Alectum—is the fourth-largest city in Scotland, with a population of 143,090. However, if outer districts such as Monifieth, Birkhill and Invergowrie, joined physically but not politically, are counted, the number is around 170,000. It is located on the north bank of the River Tay's estuary and so is near the east coast and the North Sea. Dundee is known as the City of Discovery, both in honour of Dundee's history of scientific activities, and of the RRS Discovery, Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic exploration vessel, which was built in Dundee and is now berthed there.


There you go I could go on but I is getting bored with all this scottishness!

[mickthehammer]

Ha Ha Ha! I will settle for the big fat zero Tommo ;D
I did say it was only a[glow=red,2,300]total guess[/glow]???

All of the places in my answer,
1.DUNS (Berwick Rangers), HAWICK, PEEBLES, GALASHIELS.
are the administrative towns for The Borders!

Berwick rangers is within the administration of Duns!

Bit week really but hey I am only a Sassenach! :P

No that's fine Mick, I am allowing half-points for any major towns named within the districts and, as you say, you have given me the headquarters for all four of the District Authorities for Borders. Plus the site of Berwick Rangers, so that's 2.5pts.

Leaderboard:
1. Sir Jock o' the Strap 55.5pts
2. MicktheHammer 2.5pts

Sir Jock, I'm catching up with your first reply and have now apportioned the Bonus Points thus:
Raith Rovers - 1.5 for location (Kirkcaldy), history and amusing legend.
Falkirk - 0.5 BP
Stirling Albion - 1.0 for location and history
Wigtown - 0.5 BP
Dunfermline - 1.0 for location and history
Aberdeen - 1.5 for location of football club and history of city and football club
Edinburgh - 1.5 for location of Hearts, Hibs and Meadowbank Thistle
Glasgow - 1.0 for location of Rangers and Celtic
Shetland - 0.5 for administrative history
Western Isles - 0.5 for administrative history

Bear with me for the moment while I summon up sufficient reserves of energy to score your latest offering ! :o

Leaderboard:
1. Sir Jock o' the Strap 65pts
2. MicktheHammer 2.5pts

[mickthehammer]

Well Blow me down... :o

I can't believe I actually scored in this quiz.. :o

Thanks Tommo 8-)

Here we are, then. As with for MicktheHammer, I am allowing 0.5pts for H/Q and 0.5pts for Fitba' club sites.

Argyll & Bute HQ = Kilmory Castle (which is just to the south of Lochgilphead. 0.5pts
Clackmannan : you missed out there, matey, with the H/Q of Alloa and fitba' club Aloa Athletic. Never mind, your tour brochure-style recommendation is worth 0.5 BP in itself.
River Tweed/Newtown St Boswells. Slight inaccuracy here, Newtown St Boswells is in fact the Regional Hq of the entire Scottish Borders Region: The HQ of Tweeddale is in fact the wonderful Peebles - a Royal Burgh since 1152. 0.5 BP for mention of the salmon fishing, though.
Roxburgh and Ettrick & Lauderdale have already had points awarded to you, you can have 0.5 each for naming Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire as traditional Scottish counties.
Berwickshire history and Berwick Rangers - 1.0pts
Clydebank FC - 0.5pts
Dumbartonshire history and fitba' club - 1.0pts.
The Accies - 0.5 for fitba', 0.5 for Cadzow, 0.5 for the history of Hamilton.
Motherwell - 0.5 for history as a Burgh, 0.5 for the football club, and 0.5 for mention of Ravenscraig which for me is a blast from the past, as when I worked for Babcock Woodall duckham back in the early 70's there was still a flourishing steel industry and the Ravenscraig plant was our third biggest customer behind Corby and Redcar.
Dundee. Hmmm, you seem to have missed the most famous and obvious association which of course is the wonderful-bosomed Lorraine Kelly. ;D However, 0.5 each for Dundee FC and Dundee United FC, 0.5 for the population figures and 0.5 for the city's history.

That's an extra 10 bonus points to Sir jock o' the strap and I think we'll call this one closed.

Quiz ended:

1. Sir Jock o' the Strap 75pts
2. MicktheHammer 2.5pts