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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.
A. True. |
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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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