Working out Union

Question 1

In which year did the formal union of England and Scotland take place, creating the new kingdom of ‘Great Britain’?

Answer 1

1707

Question 2

First beginning in 1701, what was the name of the major war in which the British kingdoms were fighting at the time of the Union?

Answer 2

War of the Spanish Succession

Question 3

On whom was the English, and later British, succession settled via the Act of Settlement (1701)?

Answer 3

Sophia, electress of Hanover

Question 4

What is the name usually given the English Act of Parliament of 1705 that threatened to treat Scots in England as foreign aliens?

Answer 4

Aliens Act

Question 5

Who published the Poems of Ossian in the 1760s, purporting to be translations of ancient Gaelic poetry?

Answer 5

James Macpherson

Question 6

What was the name of Adam Smith’s pioneering book published in 1776, generally considered a foundational text of both economics and political economy?

Answer 6

Wealth of Nations

Question 7

What was the name given to the dominant faction in the Church of Scotland after around 1750, whose presence helped ensure that Enlightenment thinkers generally did not face censure from the religious establishment?

Answer 7

Moderates

Question 8

Complete the famous nickname given to Edinburgh during the Enlightenment age: ‘______ of the North’

Answer 8

Athens

Question 9

With which European monarch did the Jacobite’s attempt to negotiate an alliance in 1716-7?

Answer 9

Charles XII of Sweden

Question 10

What was the name of the final Jacobite pretender, who was a grandson of James VII & II and died in 1807?

Answer 10

Henry Benedict Stuart