Quiz About Rabbie Burn
A Burns supper is a celebration of the work and life of poet Robert Burns, held on the poet's 25th of January birthday.
Quiz: A mixture of Scotland and Burns questions
- Rabbie Burns was born in which historic Scottish county?
- In Roman times, what was the area now known as Scotland called?
- "Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, great chieftain o' the pudding-race!" is the openning to which 1787 poem?
- What town did Burns move to in 1791, living there until his death on 21 July 1796?
- What sort of small creature did Burns write a Scots-language poem about in 1785?
- Recited before a Burns supper, what name is given to the following grace: "Some hae meat an canna eat, and some wad eat that want it; but we hae meat, and we can eat, and sae the Lord be thankit."?
- Football club Ayr United F.C. get their nickname from a line in the Robert Burns poem "Tam o' Shanter" - what is this nickname?
- Which world famous Scots-language poem, set to the tune of a traditional folk song, was written by Burns in 1788?
- What's the national animal of Scotland?
- Which of the following was also a nickname of Burns: The Farmer Poet, The Ploughman Poet, or The Stonemason Poet?
- Which Scottish-born poet was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009?
- Robert Burns died at what age from rheumatic fever in 1796: 37, 47, or 57?
- Which playing card has the nickname 'The Curse of Scotland'?
- Can you name the wife of Robert Burns?
- What's the well known Scots word for the last day of the year?
- Burns wrote a song about which battle of 1715, which occurred in Scotland at the height of the Jacobite rising?
- What unit is used informally to mean a small amount of Scotch whisky?
- A Robert Burns' poem inspired the title of which 1937 novel?
- Which battle took place thirteen years before the birth of Burns and was was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising?
- When asked to name the lyric that had had the greatest impact on his life, which musician chose "A Red, Red Rose" written by Burns in 1794?
- Which American fashion designer is a great, great, great nephew of Rabbie Burns?
- Which fictional village gets it's name from the final verse of Tam o' Shanter?
- A Burns supper starts with the soup course, sometimes cullen skink, which is a thick Scottish soup made from which fish?
Answers:
- Ayrshire
- Caledonia
- Address to a Haggis
- Dumfries (Queen of the South)
- Mouse (To a Mouse)
- Selkirk Grace
- The Honest Men
- Auld Lang Syne
- Unicorn
- The Ploughman Poet
- Carol Ann Duffy
- 37
- Nine of Diamonds
- Jean Armour
- Hogmanay
- Battle of Sheriffmuir
- Dram
- 'Of Mice and Men' (by John Steinbeck)
- Battle of Culloden
- Bob Dylan
- Tommy Hilfiger
- Brigadoon
- Haddock