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- 1. Multiple-choice20 seconds1 pt
"Auld Lang Syne" is originally written using which language from Europe?
Irish
Welsh
Scots/Scottish
Swedish
- 2. Multiple-choice20 seconds1 pt
This country uses Auld Lang Syne as a soccer game anthem.
Switzerland
The Netherlands
Japan
Argentina
- 3. Multiple-choice20 seconds1 pt
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
- 4. Multiple-choice20 seconds1 pt
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
- 5. Multiple-choice20 seconds1 pt
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
- 6. Multiple-choice20 seconds1 pt
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.
- 7. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 pt
This literary device is quite evidently used in the lyrics of the song.
oxymoron
metaphor
alliteration
anaphora
- 8. Multiple-choice20 seconds1 pt
The Scottish word "fiere" in the lyrics means what in English?
brother
lover
friend
fiend
- 9. Multiple-choice20 seconds1 pt
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.
- 10. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 pt
The song Auld Lang Syne was also made into South Korea's national anthem (Aegukga) from 1919 until________.
1921
1988
1948
1958
