Quiz: Were you paying attention in 2010?

1. Which Hearts player won SPL Young Player of the Month for November?

2. Which Hibs player had a May to remember by scoring a hat-trick in a 6-6 draw at Motherwell, followed by a double in the next game against Dundee Utd?

3. Who was the headline Hogmanay act in Princes Street Gardens as the city welcomed in 2010?

4. What is the name of the Edinburgh clockmakers who have tended to the Balmoral timepiece for decades (and were able to fix it when it stopped, unexpectedly, in February)?

5. Where did country singing legend Willie Nelson perform in the Capital in June?

6. In September, Edinburgh-born singer Edwyn Collins struck a blow against the Lothians branch of a political party which used his hit song Girl Like You as the background music to a controversial video on its website. Which party was it?

7. An Edinburgh-born actor celebrated a milestone birthday in August. Who is he, how old was he and what is his real name?

8. 2010 was a poignant and significant year for Scotland's proud Italian communities. Why?

9. In 2010, an Edinburgh-based cyclist came to the end of a remarkable 13,080-mile journey that saw him travel the length of the Americas. Who is he?

10. Notorious murderers Burke and Hare hit the silver screen when director John Landis's movie was released in October. It starred Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis, but who was the soap actress with Bathgate links who played Burke's lover?

11. The year saw the 50th anniversary of a UK health first, carried out by surgeons at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. What was it?

12. West Lothian singer Susan Boyle was officially recognised by the Guinness World Records in September. Why?

Answers on Next Page Answers

1. David Templeton

2. Colin Nish

3. Madness

4. James Ritchie & Son

5. The Edinburgh Playhouse

6. The British National Party

7. Sir Sean Connery turned 80 in August. His real name is Thomas Connery.

8. It marked 60 years since Italian leader Mussolini's decision to enter the war prompted Winston Churchill to give the order to intern Italian men.

9. Round the World cyclist Mark Beaumont.

10. Former Home and Away actress Isla Fisher, who spent the first year of her life in West Lothian before her parents emigrated to Australia.

11. The first UK kidney transplant was performed at the ERI on October 30, 1960, when surgeons removed a kidney from 49-year-old Martin Lewis to give to his sick twin brother, Lewis.

12. She was credited with having the fastest selling debut album by a female artist in the UK, the most successful first week's sales of a debut album and the oldest person to reach number one with a debut album.