Working out Union Quiz

week 4

In which year did the formal union of England and Scotland take place, creating the new kingdom of ‘Great Britain’?
A) 1702
B) 1707
C) 1714

B) 1707

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?
A) War of the Spanish Succession
B) Nine Years War
C) War of the Quadruple Alliance

A) War of the Spanish Succession

On whom was the English, and later British, succession settled via the Act of Settlement (1701)?
A) Anne Marie d’Orleans
B) Charles Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp
C) Sophia, electress of Hanover

C) Sophia, electress of Hanover

What is the name usually given the English Act of Parliament of 1705 that threatened to treat Scots in England as foreign aliens?
A) Aliens Act
B) Act Concerning the Scottish Nation
C) Protection Act

A) Aliens Act

Who published the Poems of Ossian in the 1760s, purporting to be translations of ancient Gaelic poetry?
A) Walter Scott
B) James Macpherson
C) Allan Ramsay

B) James Macpherson

What was the name of Adam Smith’s pioneering book published in 1776, generally considered a foundational text of both economics and political economy?
A) Wealth of Nations
B) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
C) Principia Mathematica

A) Wealth of Nations

What is 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?
A) Episcopalians
B) Moderates
C) Covenanters

B) Moderates

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

Athens

In which of these years did a Jacobite rising NOT take place?
A) 1715
B) 1719
C) 1732
D) 1745

C) 1732

With which European monarch did the Jacobites attempt to negotiate an alliance in 1716-17?
A) Frederick William I of Prussia
B) John V of Portugal
C) Charles XII of Sweden

C) Charles XII of Sweden

What was the name of the final Jacobite pretender, who was a grandson of James VII & II and died in 1807?
A) Henry Benedict Stuart
B) William Arthur Stuart
C) Christian James Stuart

A) Henry Benedict Stuart