GAMES


Answers to the games will appear in the next issue

CRYPTOGRAM

This month we offer TWO cryptograms - a really hard one and a regular one. Are you ready? Here is the hard one!


Qnufq, otv tva om' Ovbbvna wbaj,
Qnufq, otve Wxyna tvq vrfai baj,
Oabnuea fva kax huxk waj,
Ux fva cmnfuxma.

(Hint: it is in Scots and so the spelling is not standard English)

This one is a shade easier (maybe)!
W zwh wexkwnhday bndq qnfdjgu zwu, nh fjza gaflaed, ma fwny dj qwra cnray vgjz dqa maonhhnho jv dqa bjgcy, why dj qwra maah zwpnho ejhdnhkwc wyyndnjhf dj qnf fdjep jv phjbcayoa nh aragu eahdkgu.
Ywrny Qkza
Jv Dqa Fdkyu Jv Qnfdjgu


SOLUTION TO LAST MONTH'S CRYPTOGRAM
Kov Ujtkapv Ursavke, au j frf-yrtakasjt zrqe srfsvpfvq lako jtt juyvsku rh Usrkkauo tahv jfq smtkmpv
The Saltire Society is a non-political body concerned with all aspects of Scottish life and culture.
(hprb kov Ujtkapv Ursavke lvz yjnv)
(from the Sasltire Society web page)

The Saltire Society is a non-political body concerned with all aspects of Scottish life and culture.
(from the Saltire Society web page)




 

QUIZ

THIS MONTH'S QUIZ

This month's quiz deals with Scottish inventors. Let's see what can of answers you can "invent"!

SCOTTISH INVENTORS QUIZ

(family names will do)

1. What instrument maker at the University of Glasgow (born in Greenock, Renfrewshire) made significant modification to the Newcomen steam engine that brought about major changes in the Industrial Revolution?

2. What Scottish inventor created the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system

3. What Edinburgh born inventor did pioneering work with sound transmission, learned the Mohawk language and was made an honorary chief?

4. What is the surname only of the inventor of the pneumatic tire?

5.Who was first to invent and patent the electric clock and installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow.




ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH'S QUIZ

Movie Quiz (in honor of the film festival)
1. In what film does a young man named Renton have trouble giving up drugs in Glasgow?
Ans. Trainspotting (1996) 2. In what film about a Scottish about the Thrums's Auld Licht church does Katherine Hepburn appear in a lead role? Ans. The Little Minister (1934) 3. In what film does an American business man get conned by a tricky Scot skipper named Mactaggert? Ans. The Maggie a.k.a High and Dry (1954) 4, In what film did Maggie Smith receive an Oscar for playing a school teacher in 1930's Edinburgh? Ans. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) 5.In what film does a Scottish athlete played by Bill Travers insist on wearing his kilt in the Melbourne Olympics? Ans. Geordie a.k.a Wee Geordie (1955)


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