ROUND 7: Canadiana - songs, poems and poets

1. Recite any one line from the French version of "O Canada". The verses
   vary from roughly 6 to 10 syllables in French – we’ll tell you when you
   can stop. In fact, we may insist on it.

A.   O Canada! Terre de nos aïeux
     Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux 
     Car ton bras sait porter l'épée
     Il sait porter la croix
     Ton histoire est une épopée
     Des plus brillants exploits
     Et ta valeur, de foi trempée
     Protégera nos foyers et nos droits


2. Who wrote and performed “The Canadian Railroad Trilogy”?

A. Gordon Lightfoot


3. Gilles Vigneault, in his song “Mon Pays”, says that his country is not a
   country – it’s something else. What is it?

A. winter (l'hiver)


4. What patriotic song did Alexander Muir publish in 1868?

A. The Maple Leaf Forever


5. Name the BC-born writer who is Canada’s parliamentary poet laureate. He
   has taught at Concordia and Simon Fraser U, and written fiction and a
   history of British Columbia. His poetry anthologies include “Blonds on Bikes”.

A. George Bowering


6. What traditional folk song tells of a young sailor being taken off to the
   wars, singing “for it’s early in the morning and I’m far, far away”?

A. Farewell to Nova Scotia


7. Name the  singer who wrote and performed the love song describing a
   scene in a bar, whose lyrics include this: “In the blue TV screen light / I
   drew a map of Canada / Oh Canada / with your face sketched on it”.

A. Joni Mitchell


8. Name any one of the following: the author of the French words to O Canada, 
   the composer of the music, or the author of the commonly used
   English words. You don't have to say which one you're identifying.

A. Adolphe-Basile Routhier; Calixa Lavallée; Robert Stanley Weir


9. Who wrote and performed, with a chorus of kids, the Centennial theme 
   song “CA-NA-DA”?

A. Bobby Gimby


10. A song by Robbie Robertson of The Band and a poem with a Canadian theme
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow share the same name, and it's a woman's name.
    What is this name?

A. Evangeline