July 24, 2026

Which landmark 1814 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set during the 1745 Jacobite rising, inspired the naming of small American communities from Waverly, Missouri and Waverly, Pennsylvania to Waverly, Iowa, as well as a Baltimore neighbourhood and an Edinburgh railway station?

A Waverley (novel)
B Ivanhoe
C Rob Roy
D The Heart of Midlothian

Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley inspired the naming of at least a dozen U.S. communities. Missouri has Waverly, Missouri, one of those Waverley namesakes, alongside Waverly, Pennsylvania and similarly named towns in Alabama, Iowa, and Kentucky.

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