Another National Anthem by SpencerJ2

Champion(s):

FaulknerM
Time will pass and die, unlike me


Runner(s)-Up:

FryedBetaKappa
Don't read this.


Quiz Description

O say, can you answer these questions about national anthems around the world?

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Questions:

What brand new country's national anthem was selected in 2010 through a nationwide competition?

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South Sudan

This multicultural, multilingual nation's anthem is unique because it features five of the country's eleven official languages in its stanzas.

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South Africa

What Nobel Prize-winning poet (the first Asian laureate) and independence activist penned the lyrics to the anthems of two neighboring countries, neither of which he would live to see become independent?

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Rabindranath Tagore

Plenty of epic films have rather anthemic soundtracks, but what nation's very martial anthem has the distinction of first appearing in the 1935 film Children of Troubled Times?

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China

The national anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save the Queen, but each constituent country has its own anthem(s). Which song, featured prominently in one of Monty Python's silliest sketches, is one of England's traditional anthems?

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Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)

What musical characteristic do the anthems of Israel, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Bulgaria share?

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Composed in a minor scale

What movement from a famous classical symphony was made the anthem of the European Union? Name either the movement or the symphony.

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Ode to Joy/Fourth Movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony/Beethoven's 9th Symphony

What country's anthem is the world's oldest, with lyrics written at some point between 794 and 1185 AD (though it wasn't set to music until 1880, and wasn't officially adopted as the national anthem until 1999)?

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Japan

What African country's anthem, written in 1963, was among the first anthems to be specifically commissioned?

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Kenya

Although she performed perhaps the most iconic rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner, Whitney Houston was criticized for doing what during her performance of said rendition at the Super Bowl?

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Lip syncing

We mentioned multilingual anthems earlier in the quiz, so here's another one: what other, non-English language is God Defend New Zealand traditionally sung in?

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Maori

Not exactly a national anthem, but this 1978 song, widely regarded as an anthem of the LGBT community, was selected in 2016 by the Library of Congress for preservation due to its lasting cultural impact.

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I Will Survive (by Gloria Gaynor)