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1.	The last king of Scotland has died without a son, and the king of England is claiming the throne. He is known as:
		Edward Longshanks
		Edward Longstaff
		Edward Longneck
		Edwards Longreach

2.	Question 1 is explained by the narrator of the film, as yet unseen, but later revealed to be:
		Robert the Bruce
		Hamish Campbell
		Murron McClannough
		Princess Isabelle

3.	William’s father and brother are killed. At their funeral, Murron gives William:
		heather
		foxgloves
		harebells
		a thistle

4.	After the funeral, William is taken away by his Uncle Argyle to be educated. Argyle is played by:
		Sean Connery
		Brian Cox
		Ian McDiarmid
		Billy Connolly

5.	Longshanks has arranged for his son, also called Edward, to be married to Isabelle, the daughter of:
		the king of Castile
		the Duke of Burgundy
		the king of France
		the Holy Roman Emperor

6.	According to Longshanks, the trouble with Scotland is that:
		it’s too cold
		its people are filthy
		there’s nothing there but mud
		it’s full of Scots

7.	To attract the most repressive English lords to Scotland, Longshanks reinstitutes an ‘old custom’, called:
		primae noctis
		droit de seigneur
		droit de cuissage
		first shagging

8.	Now a young man, William returns to his home and is reunited with his childhood friend Hamish, who he bests in a contest of:
		caber tossing
		stone throwing
		tug of war
		highland dancing

9.	An English soldier takes a fancy to Wallace’s new wife Murron, and it ends with Murron dead and William attacking the English, whom he kills with anything that comes to hand, except:
		a hammer
		an antler
		a sword
		an axe

10.	How would Edward, the Prince of Wales, deal with Wallace?
		have the magistrate arrest him
		have the soldiers kill him on sight
		have him cut into pieces
		have him report to Edward’s bedroom

11.	Robert the Bruce’s father is:
		a monk
		a leper
		an agoraphobe
		a prisoner of the English

12.	At the Battle of Stirling, William asks to his troops to tell “our enemies that they may take our lives, but they may never take our _________!”
		freedom
		land
		women
		kilts

13.	Before the battle begins and the first arrow is shot, the Scots do what to the English?
		bite their thumbs at them
		give them the finger
		moon them
		flash them

14.	After the victory at Stirling, Edward sacks which English city?
		York
		Nottingham
		Newcastle
		Harrogate

15.	How does Longshanks murder Philip, the effete boyfriend of Edward, Prince of Wales?
		pushes him into a fire
		drops him down an oubliette
		throws him out a window
		cuts his head off with an axe

16.	Who does Longshanks send to treat with Wallace?
		Edward, Prince of Wales
		Princess Isabelle
		Lord Chancellor Fotherington
		Robert the Bruce

17.	At the Battle of Falkirk, the Scots are joined by?
		Irish mercenaries
		French pikemen
		Welsh bowmen
		Robert the Bruce

18.	Of Wallace’s friends, which dies at the Battle of Falkirk?
		Campbell, Hamish’s father
		Hamish, his childhood friend
		Argyle, Wallace’s uncle
		Stephen, the crazy Irishman

19.	Wallace takes revenge on Mornay’s betrayal at Falkirk by:
		slicing him in half on the battlefield
		dragging him out of the Lord’s Council and gutting him in the town square
		hanging him from the belltower of Edinburgh Cathedral
		riding a horse into his bedroom and smashing his face in

20.	Longshanks has grown ill and lost the power of speech. What secret does Isabelle tell him?
		that she has poisoned him, and he will die very painfully
		that Wallace is actually Longshanks' son
		that she plans to murder his son and rule as queen
		that the child growing in her belly is not of his line

21.	Wallace is betrayed and captured by the English and is publicly tortured and executed. The platform he is lashed to is shaped like:
		a bench
		a wheel
		a star
		a crucifix

22.	Which act does not feature as part of Wallace’s torture?
		hanging
		racking
		disembowelling
		extreme tickling

23.	Wallace’s body is quartered and the pieces displayed in Northern England and Scotland. Where is his head put on display?
		London Bridge
		Edinburgh Castle
		Stirling Bridge
		Scoine Abbey

24.	Robert the Bruce, now King of Scotland, leads the scots in a battle to secure his nation’s independence. Name the battle.
		Dupplin Moor
		Bannockburn
		Greyfriars Kirk
		Caddonlee

25.	Bonus Question: Braveheart is full of historical inaccuracies. Of the following statements, which is true?
		Wallace came to renown after killing the Sheriff of Lanark
		Wallace met Isabelle
		Edward Longshacks instituted primae noctis
		Scots at the time wore kilts

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