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1---Who played Steed in the original TV series - Patrick MacNee
 
2---Love Rears Its Ugly Head was a top twenty hit for which American band - Living Colour
 
3---Who starred in the comedy films The Bulldog Breed and The Early Bird - Norman Wisdom
 
4---How many guests are on the panel on TV's Question Time - 4
 
5---At a party of fellow Canadian writers, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Raymond Souster and Alden Nowland, who would Birney likely ask to dance?
D. None of them.

6---Canada: Case History: 1945 is a satire found in high school anthologies.
A. True.



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  1. Birney found a clear focus with his writing in Canada.
    B. False.

    ARTICLE: Canadian Writers and their works

  2. While attending UBC, his 4th year honours thesis was on:
    B. Chaucer's irony.

  3. In 1952, Birney:
    D. all of the above.

  4. Ice Cod Bell or Stone has been called Birney's best single volume of poetry.
    A. True.

  5. The poems in What's so Big about GREEN? tend to focus upon the:
    D. all of the above.

  6. Politically, Birney regarded himself as a:
    B. Social Democrat.

    ARTICLE: A Passion thrives unsated

  7. Why was Birney's poem "the shapers: Vancouver" compared to Yeats' "The Second Coming."
    B. They both talk about the death of a culture and the birth of anarchy.

  8. What does the reviewer describe as manic/depressive?
    B. Romantic odes.

    ARTICLE: A novel of the week

  9. Birney was one of the first, if not the first, to write a fictional novel about communism.
    A. True.

  10. In Birney's book "Down the Long Years" the protagonist:
    B. joins a communist group and participates in raids against city offices.

    ARTICLE: Earle Birney's boyhood years

  11. Looking back on his life, Birney maintained that early memories are:
    A. symbolic.

  12. Birney was an only child.
    A. True.

  13. Birney was brought up in the city.
    B. False.

  14. When Birney was a small boy, the nearest major center was:
    B. Red Deer.

  15. What was Birney's favorite poem of all he wrote?
    C. November Walk Near False Creek Mouth.

  16. Birney used diary entries as the inspiration for poetry.
    A. True.

  17. Why did Birney raise the copyright rates for the poem "David"?
    D. He grew to dislike the poem.

  18. "November Walk" is a poem about:
    B. the fear of atomic war.

  19. Of "David" Birney claimed, "I think it's one of my best crafted poems. It's a short story, really."
    A. True.

  20. David falls off a cliff while climbing:
    D. Finger Mountain.

  21. "David" is a happy and uplifting poem.
    B. False.

  22. Which of the following is not an Earle Birney poem:
    C. Finger Mountain.

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From: MSN NicknameJudyc3Sent: 9/28/2007 11:54 PM
  1. What "generation" did Earle Birney consider to be his prime audience?
    D. the younger generation.

  2. Earle Birney was always young at heart. In fact, he won the heart of a woman who was _____ years younger than himself.
    B. 45

    ARTICLE: Earle Birney's boyhood years inspire poetry

  3. How many brothers and sisters did Earle Birney have?
    D. none.

  4. When he was seven, Earle Birney's family moved to:
    B. Banff.

  5. What is Birney's poem "November Walk Near False Creek Mouth" about?
    C. the fear of atomic war.

    ARTICLE: Mosaic biography. Earle Birney's odd look back at 45 years of CanLit

  6. The title for Earle Birney's literary memoirs Spreading Time, comes from:
    D. a poem written by Sarah Binks, which refers to the time of year when farmers spread manure.

  7. Earle Birney's comic novel, Turvey, came from:
    B. his war experience.

  8. Earle Birney was a Marxist-Leninist for a short time.
    A. True.

  9. Earle believed that CanLit would never be worth sounding off about.
    A. True.

  10. Earle Birney taught Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster.
    A. True.

  11. Birney was the editor of the Toronto-based Canadian Poetry Magazine and performed his duties from Vancouver.
    A. True.

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The cone or flower cluster of which plant is used to make beer?
Hops
- In the making of beer, do the brewers use the male or the female flowers of the hop plant?
Female
2. What is Homer Simpson’s favourite brand of beer?
Duff
3. What can be fitted to a beer pump nozzle to vary the amount of head on a pint?
A Sprinkler
4. Which country is the home of Kronenbourg beer?
France
5. Which Dutch river is also the name of a beer?
Amstel
6. What does a Tegestologist collect?
Beer mats
7. Which is more likely to go off, beer in green bottles or brown bottles?
Green (let's in more light, causing reaction)
8. What was the first nationally distributed beer in the US?
Budweiser
9. Which product was advertised as ‘smooth enough to sell itself�?
John Smith's Bitter
10. What is the main ingredient of the Mexican beer Pulque?
Cactus
11. What flavouring is used in the Belgian beer Kriek?
Cherries
12. Which beer was advertised as “works Wonders, so drink one today�?
Double Diamond
13. True or false - Adolf Hitler would only drink beer produced in Germany?
False
14. What size beer barrel contains 108 gallons?
Butt
15. ET drank which brand of beer?
Coors
16. If you were drinking Castle beer in what country would you be?
South Africa
17. Who makes Miller Lite beer?
Philip Morris
18. What flavours root beer?
Sarsaparilla
19. To an Australian, what is an esky?
Portable Beer Cooler
20. In which month is the Munich beer festival held?
October

21. What did drinkers first see on Jan 24 1935?
Beer Can
22. Where would you buy a Steinlager beer?
New Zealand
23. What does Mit Hefe on a German beer bottle mean?
With Yeast
24. If you were drinking Tiger beer in what country would you be?
Singapore
25. Which beer was advertised as good for you?
Guinness
26. If you were drinking Cobra beer in what country would you be?
India
27. What lager reached the parts other beers could not reach?
Heineken
28. Pia Polish Piwo Hungarian Sor is Beer in which language?
Hawaiian
29. In beer measurement, 72 pints make a what?
Firkin - nine gallons
30. What is the most popular Mexican beer in the USA?
Corona
31. Which English brewery has the oldest patent on beer?
Bass Ale
32. Which beer brewed by Shepherd Neame is called the 'Bottle of Britain'?
Spitfire Bitter
33. There are 33 words on the back of a bottle of what beer?
Rolling Rock
34. Where is Kloster beer brewed?
Thailand
35. If you were delivered a hogshead of beer, how many gallons of beer would you have?
Fifty Four
36. How would a cockney ask for a beer?
A Pig's Ear
37. What is the smallest quantity of draught beer that can be sold in Britain?
A third of a pint
38. Sahti Is A Traditional Beer Style Brewed In Which European Country?
Finland
39. According to the old saying, 'Life is not all beer and.....' what?
Skittles
40. St Brigit of Ireland could do what amazing trick for visitors?
Turning Bathwater into Beer (our pub does it the other way around!)

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  1. For which film did Henry Fonda win his best actor Oscar? On Golden Pond
  2. Which huge global communications brand is derived from a local word for a marten? Nokia (a marten is like a weasel - the variety in question was probably the pine marten or sable, which gave its name to the Finnish river and town on which the early Nokia company - a paper mill - was built.)
  3. Who was the first reigning British monarch to make an official visit to the USA? George the Sixth (in 1939)
  4. What is the name of the carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday? Mardi Gras (literally 'Fat Tuesday', or technically 'Tuesday Fat')
  5. Who was the British nurse arrested in Brussells and shot by firing squad in 1915 on suspicion of helping Allied solders to escape? Edith Cavell
  6. What object officially joined our solar system on 1st May 1930? Pluto

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