Since time immemorial, every generation has imagined itself to be smarter and better educated than the one coming up.
And if the standard of the questions in this absolutely nuggets Edinburgh quiz from the 1940s is anything to go by, we reckon we might just have stumbled on some proof to back up this unlikely theory.
Published shortly after VE Day 1945, this collection of 240 capital-related questions will test even the most well-versed Edinburgh scholars. Mind you, it was probably pretty hard for folk in the 1940s too.
