Across the country people will be celebrating Burns Night.
The word ‘Bard’ has become synonymous with the world’s greatest poets, however, few are as celebrated as Scotland’s own National Bard, Robert Burns, who we pay tribute to on January 25 each year.
With events across the Highlands going virtual, many for the first time, people are coming together in their own way to celebrate Burns Night at home.
To test your knowledge of the Bard here is a quick quiz on the man himself.
1 / 10
Rabbie Burns was born in which historic Scottish county?
1
Kilmarnockshire
(117 votes)
2
Ayrshire
(1501 votes)
3
Berwickshire
(44 votes)
2 / 10
"Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, great chieftain o' the pudding-race!" is the openning to which 1787 poem?
1
Address to a Haggis
(1479 votes)
2
To a mouse
(87 votes)
3
Scots Wha Hae
(46 votes)
3 / 10
What town did Burns move to in 1791, living there until his death on 21 July 1796?
1
Kilwinning
(173 votes)
2
Ayr
(413 votes)
3
Dumfries
(1018 votes)
4 / 10
Football club Ayr United get their nickname from a line in the Robert Burns poem "Tam o' Shanter" - what is this nickname?
1
The Honest Men
(1130 votes)
2
The Working Men
(290 votes)
3
The True Men
(160 votes)
5 / 10
What nickname was Burn's sometimes called by
1
The Farmer Poet
(367 votes)
2
The Ploughman Poet
(1067 votes)
3
The Stonemason Poet
(125 votes)
6 / 10
Burns wrote a song about which battle of 1715 which occurred in Scotland at the height of the Jacobite rising?
1
The Battle of Stirling Bridge
(653 votes)
2
The Battle of Sherriffmuir
(778 votes)
3
The Turra Trot
(111 votes)
7 / 10
Robert Burns died at what age from rheumatic fever?
1
37
(910 votes)
2
36
(342 votes)
3
38
(268 votes)
8 / 10
When Burns was a child, his father owned a farm, what was it called?
1
Mount Heath Farm
(338 votes)
2
Mount Hill Farm
(519 votes)
3
Mount Oliphant Farm
(644 votes)
9 / 10
It's thought that Burns was planning to leave Ayrshire and head abroad in 1786, but where did he plan to go?
1
Jamaica
(1041 votes)
2
Bermuda
(202 votes)
3
Barbados
(243 votes)
10 / 10
Where is the Burns National Memorial located?
1
Mauchline
(377 votes)
2
Dumfries
(465 votes)
3
Ayr
(625 votes)
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