Auld Lang Syne

"Auld Lang Syne" is originally written using which language from Europe?

• Irish

• Welsh

• Scots/Scottish

• Swedish

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This country uses Auld Lang Syne as a soccer game anthem.

• Switzerland

• The Netherlands

• Japan

• Argentina

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Originally, Auld Lang Syne is a poem written by this iconic poet in the North during the 1700s.

• E.E. Cummings

• Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

• Rabbie Burns

• Robert Burns

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He was the music publisher who helped the poet make his poem a song, now known as Auld Lang Syne.

• Thomas Burns

• George Thomson

• George Thomson Burns

• Thomson Burns

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This band made "Auld Lang Syne" a New Year's Eve staple or tradition to be sung every year.

• Earth, Wind, and Fire

• Pattie La Belle

• Guy Lombardo

• Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

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The original meaning of Auld Lang Syne is about:

• Two old friends drinking while reminiscing about their friendship and their old pals.

• Separation of two past lovers.

• Achieving success and glory.

• the end of a previous year, and entering a new one.

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This literary device is quite evidently used in the lyrics of the song.

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• alliteration

• anaphora

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The Scottish word "fiere" in the lyrics means what in English?

• brother

• lover

• friend

• fiend

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The lyrics of Auld Lang Syne according to the poet, was actually taken from:

• a bard reciting a certain poem

• a young madam singing

• an old man singing

• an old traveler chatting with him.

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The song Auld Lang Syne was also made into South Korea's national anthem (Aegukga) from 1919 until________.

• 1921

• 1988

• 1948

• 1958

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