A Munro is the name for a Scottish mountain above 1,000 feet.

Scottish actor Gerard Butler is also a qualified dentist.

False: Paisley-born Butler trained as a lawyer at Glasgow University and turned to acting in the mid-nineties.

Scotland have qualified for nine World Cups but have only played at eight.

True: The Scottish Football Association declined to participate in 1950 as Scotland were not the British champions.

The raincoat was invented by a Scot in 1824.

True: Charles Macintosh, a chemist born in Glasgow invented the garment, which is still known in Britain as a ‘mac’.

The flower of Scotland is the rose.

False: The Scottish national flower is a thistle.

Queen Victoria smoked cigarettes when she was in Scotland to keep away midges.

True: Queen Victoria reportedly smoked during her visits to the Highlands.

The Scots invented the bagpipes.

False: It was the Romans who brought the first bagpipes to Britain.

A Munro is the name for a Scottish mountain above 1,000 feet.

False: Munros are named after Sir Hugh T. Munro who in 1891 surveyed all the country's mountains above 3000 feet. Currently, there are 283 Munros in Scotland.

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