GAMES


Answers to the games will appear in the next issue

CRYPTOGRAM


Here is a crazy definition for you to ponder over the summer until we see you again in September.

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SOLUTION TO Last Month's' CRYPTOGRAM:


"QJL ETCMEIS BUWLUQBIU IA MRNCKL-QILV MJILM SCM QI LUCXTL QJL ETCMEIS ZCU QI ELQ FTIMLK QI QJL XCK."
GCFY JINML, CYC ZK ETCMEIS (1906-1991), SCM C HKIZBULUQ CUV HKITBABF ETCMEIS SKBQLK.

"The Glasgow invention of square-toed shoes was to enable the Glasgow man to get closer to the bar."
Jack House, aka Mr Glasgow (1906-1991), was a prominent and prolific Glasgow writer.






 

Game

Given our nice lead article by Bruce MacIntyre on the music for a motion picture - this quiz deals with some Scottish films. See how well you can do with these!

1. A 1996 film deals with a group of drug users in Glasgow. A sequel appeared in 2017. Can you name the original film?

2. Can you name the director of a remarkable trilogy of films which includes My Childhood, My Ain Folk and My Way Home

3. The garbage strike in Glasgow forms the background of Lynne Ramsay's 1999 film. Can you name the film?

4. What Alexander MacKendrick comedy made in 1949 was remade in 2016 - with the same title?

5. And speaking of remakes, a classic cult horror film made in 1973 about paganism in Scotland was remade (alas) in 2006?




ANSWERS TO Last Month's' QUIZ:

1. Sir Walter Scott First Baronet, FRSE, FSA Scot was born 15 August 1771. So with his titles appearing after his name can you tell us what FSA Scot stands for?

Answer:Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland



2. Can you name Scott's first novel, written anonymously in 1814 and dealt with the Jacobite rising of 1745?

Answer:The Waverly novels



3. Bonnie Dundee was a name not given to the place, but a person also known as "Bluidy Clavers". Can you name the novel in which this character appears?


Answer: Tales of my Landlord" or"Old Mortality



4. Here are the opening lines of one of Scott's poems.

"The way was long, the wind was cold,
The Minstrel was infirm and old"

 What is the name of the poem?


Answer: "The Lay of the Last Minstral"



5. In addition to Donizetti, Franz Shubert also set some of Scott's material to music. He set seven songs from The Lady of the Lake to music. The music for "Ellen's Third Song" (or in German "Ellens Dritter Gesang") is better known under a different name. Tell us, if you know, what that title is


Answer: Shubert's Ave Maria



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