GLASGOW QUIZ
between Hope and Union Streets? a) Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington b) Trumpet by Jackie Kay c) The Magic Flute by Alan Spence
2 Where in Glasgow does Robert Wringhim meet Gilmartin in James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner?
a) Finnieston b) Glasgow Green c) The Necropolis 3
What name does Denise Mina’s crime-busting journalist share with a victim of a miscarriage of justice? 4
CLUBS Set by JD Twitch, one half of Optimo
What does Alexander Trocchi’s Young Adam find in the Forth Clyde Canal?
city’s patron saint, Glaswegians spoke a language akin to:
a) Gaelic b) Welsh c) Norse 2
Clementina Walkinshaw was the Glaswegian common-law spouse of which 18th-century celebrity Scot?
a) Robert Burns b) Adam Smith c) Charles Edward Stuart 3
Which 18th-century Virginia tobacco lord originally occupied the city-centre mansion that is today’s Gallery of Modern Art?
a) Andrew Cochrane b) William Cuninghame c) John Glassford 4
In what year did the shipbuilding burghs of Govan and Partick finally yield their independence and become part of Glasgow?
a) 1891 b) 1912 c) 1920 5
a) A life-changing copy of Being and Nothingness b) A cache of heroin c) The body of his ex-girlfriend.
5 Fill in the blanks: in 1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray, Jock McLeish declares that Scotland has been ‘______’, going on to admit that ‘I am one of the _______ that ______ her’.
HISTORY Set by Irene Maver, Senior Lecturer in Scottish History, Glasgow University
Who was elected by her fellow councillors as Glasgow’s first female Lord Provost?
1 In the early 7th century at the time of St Mungo, the
a) Susan Baird b) Liz Cameron c) Jean Roberts
1 Trainspotting was of course set in Leith, but large chunks of the film were actually filmed in Glasgow. A now-demolished West End club was featured in the scene where Renton and Diane first meet. What was it called?
a) The Volcano b) Cleopatra’s c) Delmonica’s 2
The Sub Club opened in 1987 but the space was used as a nightclub going way back to the 1960s, called what?
a) The Basement b) Lucifer’s c) Hellfire 3
Glasgow DJ duo Stuart Macmillan and Orde Meikle are best known by what alias?
a) Silicone Soul b) JY Project c) Slam 4
Optimo (Espacio) started in which year?
a) 1997 b) 1998 c) 2000 5
A very small number of Glasgow DJs have had top 40 hits. However, only one of the following has taken a song as high as number two in the UK singles chart. Which DJ was it?
a) Harri b) Oscar Fullone c) Michael Kilkie BOOKS
Set by Louise Welsh, author of Naming the Bones
1 In what musically-titled book do a pair of lovers meet
94 THE LIST 5–12 Aug 2010