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Sitting at work today waiting for a digital printing job to be burped out of our gigundo Konica Minolta copier/printer, I found myself thinking of answers for the TV game show Jeopardy!, in the category "National Anthems." (Maybe because wouldyoueva tried out for the show yesterday.) See if you can provide the responses (in the form of questions!) to these: $100: Contrary to popular belief, this and not "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's official anthem. $200: In the film Casablanca, Rick Blaine, his customers and even Sam the piano player defiantly sing this anthem to the Nazis. $300: The American patriotic hymn "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" takes its melody from this anthem of its mother country. $400: This anthem's music was taken from a 1778 English drinking ditty, "The Anacreontic Song." $500: This is the only anthem other than the USA's you will hear at National Hockey League games. Correct questions not guessed will be provided tomorrow. Sorry, two posters already got all five; better luck next time!

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[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

$300: What is "God Save the Queen"?

$500: What is "O, Canada"?

I could google the rest, but I won't.

DING!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Right and right again! Two down, three to go. (We would also have accepted "God Save the King," that having been the gender of the British monarch reigning when the song was actually written.)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

DING!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Right, right and right once more! For the $200, we would also have accepted "La Marsellaise." On the $400, "The Anacreontic Song" is the actual, official title of the original song, according to Wikipedia's page on it; if you search on "To Anacreon In Heaven," you get a page explaining that that title is a popular misconception.

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

Oddly, the $100 one was the one I didn't know...

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing your Facebook badge.

Re: DING!

[supergee.livejournal.com]

H.P. Lovecraft would sing "The Anacreontic Song" when everyone else was singing "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Re: DING!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Dunno why. What browser are you using?

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I would've put the Aussie song (which I did *not* get) in the $500 slot, swapping it for O Canada (which is too easy to figure out if you know a damn thing about hockey, or baseball for that matter). I got the other four without looking, although $200 was a SWAG...

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Firefox...for both PC and Mac.

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

I <3 La Marseillaise. :)

(1) I very seldom remember to read the ICanHazCheezeburger site, but my absolute favorite picture & caption involves two kittens on opposite sides of a chain-link fence, touching paws. Their LOLcat dialogue is:

"run"
"they r coming"
"i luvs u"

Heartbreakingly adorable. In the followon discussion, somehow _Casablanca_ gets brought up, which then led to the best comparison of the English and French national anthems ever:

Teh Fronsh nashunull anfem is GRATE – is awl abowt disembowwlin NE forriners hoo luks at yew funny. Teh Ingrish nashunull anfem is bery bery dull bai comparison. “Oh hai, we has a Queen. She’s grate. Ceelin Cat, plz to be lookin after her”.

Is plesunt enuff, but is nawt goin to scare teh c**p owta ur NMEs.

(2) When I was still attending local wrestling shows with a group of friends, one of the bad guys was a comic heel calling himself "Mr. Ooh La La", who was naturally convinced he was the greatest wrestler -- and sex symbol, etc. -- ever. Of course, he came out to an instrumental of the Marseillaise, and we always stood up and sang it. In French. The rest of the time we booed him and laughed, because he *was* very funny, but that was our little tribute to him. Plus, any excuse to sing "aux armes, citoyens!".

Re: DING!

[zsero.livejournal.com]

So do I...

[zsero.livejournal.com]

On the contrary, it's got nothing to do with officialdom. Officialdom at the time of the 1977 referendum for a national tune (not anthem) wanted Waltzing Matilda to win, but the people said otherwise. So in 1983 when God Save the Queen got dumped, the only song it made sense to replace it with, at least without calling another referendum, was the existing national tune, Advance Australia Fair. They did PC-ify the words, though.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

You haven't heard the other verses of God Save The Queen. No actual disembowwlin, but the NMEs do come in for some harsh words. At Ceilin Cat's claws, of course; the Queen's paws are much too dainty.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]