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   |  |  From:   Judyc3  (Original Message) | Sent: 9/28/2007 11:53 PM |   
  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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   |  |  From:   Judyc3 | Sent: 9/28/2007 11:53 PM |   
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Birney found a clear focus with his writing in Canada. B. False.     ARTICLE: Canadian Writers and their works     - While attending UBC, his 4th year honours thesis was on:
 B. Chaucer's irony.      - In 1952, Birney:
 D. all of the above.    - Ice Cod Bell or Stone has been called Birney's best single volume of poetry.
 A. True.    - The poems in What's so Big about GREEN? tend to focus upon the:
 D. all of the above.    - Politically, Birney regarded himself as a:
 B. Social Democrat.  ARTICLE: A Passion thrives unsated     - 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.    - What does the reviewer describe as manic/depressive?
 B. Romantic odes.  ARTICLE: A novel of the week     - Birney was one of the first, if not the first, to write a fictional novel about communism.
 A. True.    - 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     - Looking back on his life, Birney maintained that early memories are:
 A. symbolic.    - Birney was an only child.
 A. True.    - Birney was brought up in the city.
 B. False.    - When Birney was a small boy, the nearest major center was:
 B. Red Deer.    - What was Birney's favorite poem of all he wrote?
 C. November Walk Near False Creek Mouth.    - Birney used diary entries as the inspiration for poetry.
 A. True.    - Why did Birney raise the copyright rates for the poem "David"?
 D. He grew to dislike the poem.    - "November Walk" is a poem about:
 B. the fear of atomic war.    - Of "David" Birney claimed, "I think it's one of my best crafted poems. It's a short story, really."
 A. True.    - David falls off a cliff while climbing:
 D. Finger Mountain.    - "David" is a happy and uplifting poem.
 B. False.    - Which of the following is not an Earle Birney poem:
 C. Finger Mountain.    |  
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   |  |  From:   Judyc3 | Sent: 9/28/2007 11:54 PM |   
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What "generation" did Earle Birney consider to be his prime audience? D. the younger generation.     - 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     - How many brothers and sisters did Earle Birney have?
 D. none.    - When he was seven, Earle Birney's family moved to:
 B. Banff.    - 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     - 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.    - Earle Birney's comic novel, Turvey, came from:
 B. his war experience.    - Earle Birney was a Marxist-Leninist for a short time.
 A. True.    - Earle believed that CanLit would never be worth sounding off about.
 A. True.    - Earle Birney taught Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster.
 A. True.    - Birney was the editor of the Toronto-based Canadian Poetry Magazine and performed his duties from Vancouver.
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   |  |  From:   Judyc3 | Sent: 10/2/2007 2:08 AM |   
 - For which film did Henry Fonda win his best actor Oscar? On Golden Pond  
 - 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.)  
 - Who was the first reigning British monarch to make an official visit to the USA? George the Sixth (in 1939)  
 - What is the name of the carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday? Mardi Gras (literally 'Fat Tuesday', or technically 'Tuesday Fat')  
 - 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  
 - What object officially joined our solar system on 1st May 1930? Pluto 
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