GAMES


Answers to the games will appear in the next issue

CRYPTOGRAM


"LXK VRCQLPDRF JQTR Q NKFPLPDR IHL KVUO PV FWKLUQVA AK LXK NKFPLPDRF JQTR Q VRCQLPDR: QOR BPCSL."
EBQVTPR IKOUR'F SKJR WKHVLBO AKRFV'L RFWQNR SPF WKJRAO.




SOLUTION TO Last Month's' CRYPTOGRAM:


ARHM: RM'Z KNOM NOIIBLBF MU MNB HOZM IBEZUL KNU WOHHBF RM O ZAREM
OLULXTUQZ


KILT: IT S WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAST PERSON WHO CALLED IT A SKIRT
ANONYMOUS








 

Game

This year is the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville, whose father's side of the family came from Scotland (his mother's side was Dutch). Can you tell us the correct birth year of these famous Scottish authors? If you get the wrong answer - instead of a "nasty insult" which contains the correct answer, we will give you another event that happened that same year. If you don't know that - that will be the insult!

1. Sir Walter Scott

2. Robert Burns

3. Arthur Conan Doyle

4. Robert Louis Stevenson

5. Muriel Spark




ANSWERS TO Last Month's' QUIZ:

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


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


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


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


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



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