National Anthems by Egantx7

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RichmondJ


Runner(s)-Up:

GrahamJ
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Quiz Description

Answer the following about the various songs sung before baseball games in different countries .

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Questions:

Give the song title

The lyrics to this national anthem date to about the year 1000 AD, making them the oldest words to be used as a modern national anthem, though they were not put to music until 1880, about 8 years before the song was made the national anthem, an anthem which somewhat controversially was allowed to continue in use after 1945. With a current arrangement created by Franz Eckert, identify this song, which in English has a title which roughly translates to "The Emperor's reign"

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Kimigayo (Japan)

What two words fill in the following:

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,

The BLANK BLANK strong and free!

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true north (O Canada)

This nation's national anthem, among the longest in the world, consists of two stanzas of 26 lines each. By law, when played only by musicians, the second stanza may be omitted, but when sung, both stanzas must be sung in their entirety. Identify this nation with an anthem which opens with the lines (in a rough English translation):

The placid banks of the Ipiranga heard

The resounding cry of a heroic folk

And the sun of Liberty in shining beams

Shone in the homeland's sky at that instant.

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Brazil

The song "Lord Bless Africa" was created as a pan-African song of unity, and over time was adopted by a few countries as a national anthem. Today, one nation uses the song, as is, for their national anthem, while another country uses part of the song as part of its anthem. Identify either of the current countries which use "Lord Bless Africa" as either their entire or part of their national anthem.

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Tanzania (entire) and South Africa (part)

This nation's national anthem has sixteen stanzas, the first letter's of which spell out the name "Willem van Nazzov" Identify the nation that is neither Germany nor Spain, but has a national anthem with a first stanza noting connections to both Germany and Spain.

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Netherlands

This nation's national anthem, known in English as "The Great Charlemagne", is somewhat unique in that it is written in the first person, feminine. Identify this nation which, in the lyrics of its national anthem, identifies itself as the only remaining daughter, of the Carolingian empire, and ends with the lines:

The laws of the land be my tutors,

and my Princes defenders!

And my Princes defenders!

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Andorra

This nation's current anthem has a second stanza which emphatically proclaims (translated to English) that this nation's women, loyalty, wine, and song shall retain in the world their old beautiful chime. The melody of this song was originally composed to be the national anthem of another nation, which has long passed into history. Identify the nation which, today, only sings the third stanza of its national anthem, leading to some confusion abroad as to its title, because the first stanza was used under previous administrations and has long been tainted.

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Germany (titled: "Deutschlandlied", not "Deutschland über alles"

La Marseillaise is often described as having been born out of the French Revolution, but more specifically, it was written to rally French troops against an invasion which attempted to quash the French Revolution. What name is generally given to this war which saw France have to fight against the Holy Roman Empire, Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and various Italian states including Sardinia and Naples. The war generally ran form 1792-97, and despite being outnumbered and outgunned, the French repelled the invasions. Notably, an attack on Sardinia, the Battle of Saorgio, was the first planned attack in the long career of future general/emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte.

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War of the First Coalition

During the seventh inning stretch of Game 1 of the 1918 World Series, the band in attendance struck up the patriotic tune The Star Spangled Banner. It was enthusiastically received by the war-time crowd, and repeated at some subsequent games. In what stadium, called "The Baseball Palace of the World" did this event occur, often identified as the start of the tradition of playing patriotic music at baseball games, a tradition that would not start in earnest until World War II? HINT: the stadium was not the home stadium of either involved team, but was the site of home games for the team that lost the World Series that year.

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Comiskey Park

One of the more bizarre and hilarious national anthem incidents came, perhaps inevitably, at the 2012 Emir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix when the wrong version of this nation's national anthem was played. Which nation won the women's event, and must have been mortified when a song was played that included lines that noted their superior potassium exports, the Tinshein swimming pool, and that they were friend to all, except Uzbekistan.

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Kazakhstan

This nation does not have a national anthem, but it does have a piece of music composed by Charles "Funeral March of a Marionette" Gounod that has served in that capacity since 1949. This song notably mentions another nation's national capitol five times in the first two lines. What is this nation which prior to 1949, used "Marcia trionfale" by Viktorin Hallmayer as its de facto national anthem?

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Vatican City

This song opens with the lines (in English):

Stand up all victims of oppression

For the tyrants fear your might

Don't cling so hard to your possessions

For you have nothing if you have no rights

Which song, composed by Pierre De Geyter with lyrics by Eugène Pottier, was the national anthem of the Soviet Union from 1922 through 1944, when it was replaced by the State Anthem of the Soviet Union.

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The Internationale