National anthems Quiz

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National anthems Quiz

by PhilSandifer

Created Oct 23, 2008 in Miscellaneous
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	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 05:24 GMT	9 points
	I'd say South Africa's is pretty obvious...

	MRL:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 06:21 GMT	6 points
	Only if you've heard it before... you have to admit most people wouldn't be likely to type that in as a real guess.

	mrdrake:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 08:15 GMT	-1 points
	Nice quiz, only got England's and New Zealand's, forgot about Canada's....and did not know the rest.

	davidr:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 08:24 GMT	15 points
	"God Save the Queen/King" (the latter should also be accepted) is the anthem of the whole UK, not just England. Scotland doesn't, officially, have an anthem.

	tizio_incognito:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 09:38 GMT	0 points
	Nice one, although I think it should also accept common names for the anthems like "Deutschland Uber Alles" for Germany and "Fratelli d'Italia" for Italya.

	revenue:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 10:32 GMT	7 points
	@tizio and in general The German Anthem isn't "Deutschland über alles" nor "Deutschlandlied", it was until the end of World War 2. Since then, the anthem is just one verse of the Deutschlandlied and is called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" or just "Deutsche Nationalhymne"...

	Ribhump:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 GMT	9 points
	being a transliteration, for Israel Hativka (so without the h) should also be acceptable, especially given it seems to be spelt equally with and without from what i've seen...

	lyttmabatr:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 GMT	0 points
	We might not have an official anthem but whenever Scotland play as a separate nation we use flower of scotland over all the other options more often than not.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 13:48 GMT	1 point
	davidr - The national anthem of England is only "God save the king" when there's a king. And though it is also the national anthem of the UK, the individual nations of the UK do have their own anthems as well. As for the other issues raised, I'm going to look into Hativka and the alternate names for the German anthem, which I wasn't aware of. If they pan out, I'll try to get them added as alternate answers.

	Hetch:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 14:14 GMT	0 points
	Les Marseilles, ne c'est pas La Marseillaise

	Andrew:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 14:16 GMT	7 points
	The Italian National Anthem is "Inno di Mameli" or "L'inno di Mameli". It's also commonly called "Fratelli D'Italia". There is NO one in Italy that calls it "Canto degli Italiani". No one.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 14:41 GMT	-2 points
	MRL - obviously you can't tell when someone's joking.

	davidr:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 14:46 GMT	11 points
	@Phil Sandifer: It's the other way round. When the constituent countries need an anthem, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use their own unofficial anthems; England has no anthem so uses the UK anthem `God Save the Queen/King.' It's not that the UK uses the English anthem; rather, England uses the UK anthem.

	Chris156:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 15:26 GMT	4 points
	I thought the South African national anthem was called "Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika", but it wasn't accepted...

	davidr:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 16:24 GMT	5 points
	@Chris: you're right -- the South African National Anthem was "Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika" but it isn't any more. The current anthem takes parts from others, including "Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika".

	thejazzkickazz:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 19:42 GMT	2 points
	Interesting concept, but I think this would be much more interesting if you had turned it around, providing the names for each anthem and having players guess the country. Maybe you can try that for a follow-up?

	davidr:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 19:57 GMT	2 points
	@thejazz: Too easy to get them just by guessing the names of likely countries.

	MRL:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 21:45 GMT	2 points
	Admiral Maxtreme: I not only can, I was contributing to the joke.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 23:23 GMT	2 points
	MRL: I honestly can't find any sarcasm in what you said. I can't see where you're joking (no sarcasm in this reply).

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	davidr:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 21:42 GMT	11 points
	@Matt: `Ireland' is usually taken to mean `the Republic of Ireland'; people say `the island of Ireland' if they mean to include Northern Ireland as well. And you're going to have to find a much better term than `free' -- two thirds of the people in Northern Ireland want to be part of the UK rather than the Republic. It wouldn't be acceptable for the joint Republic-NI rugby team to play the Irish or UK anthem as that would suggest territorial claims in one direction or the other.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 27th, 2008 at 00:57 GMT	4 points
	Once again, davidr displays his knowledge of the intricacies of the UK. If anyone has any more questions about this, just address them to davidr.

	magister:	Oct 31st, 2008 at 00:48 GMT	3 points
	@Admiral: Okay, I will! @davidr: I believe you people call a restroom a water closet. Why?

	Lula:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 18:47 GMT	-3 points
	@matt - the irish rugby ream sing amhrain an bhfiann AND irelands call at rugby matches to include the northern counties and the republic, everywhere else its just amhrain na bhfiann...because in the republic we are, for use of your word, free.

	newenglander:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 12:05 GMT	0 points
	I only got the US, Canada, and th UK

	DerKomissar:	Jan 19th, 2009 at 14:21 GMT	3 points
	The song "Down Under" by Men At Work should count for Australia. Didn't they adopt it as their unofficial anthem?

	lavraiemusicienne:	Jun 1st, 2009 at 15:13 GMT	1 point
	@DerKomissar: if so, "I'm gonna be" by the Proclaimers should count for Scotland for the same reasons. Personally I prefer both these songs to the officials. @Davidr: I salute you. Thank you for explaining in almost every quiz the difference between the UK as a whole and its individual countries. Just by the way "O Flower of Scotland" was not accepted but "Scotland the Brave" (totally different song I'm sure) was...?!?

	is89:	Jul 11th, 2009 at 15:54 GMT	1 point
	'Scotland the Brave' is what they play at the Commonwealth Games, 'O Flower of Scotland' is what they play at the rugby and football. Neither of them is official, I think officially it is still 'God Save the Queen' if Scotland is thought as part of the UK, but nothing official when thought of as a separate country.

	sexysadie:	Oct 18th, 2009 at 00:40 GMT	2 points
	I only got the UK, Canada and Ireland :/ Couldn't remember America's!

	ChileNoseJam:	Nov 14th, 2009 at 01:42 GMT	1 point
	England as a distinct entity has no official national anthem, but "Jerusalem" is often used as an unofficial one at sporting events, and I think I recall "Land of Hope and Glory" being used at the Commonwealth Games (where the constituent parts of the UK compete separately, unlike the Olympics).

	graphicggh:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 23:13 GMT	1 point
	waltzing matilda

	mtc:	Dec 21st, 2009 at 06:50 GMT	1 point
	lol, is Germany's national anthem called "The Germany Song"?

	A_Trep:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 17:28 GMT	1 point
	@mtc: yeah thats the literal translation. I'm surprised at how obvious most of the titles are and how oblivious I was to them. South Africa and Mexico especially...

	A_Trep:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT	2 points
	I'm just throwing it out there... but if you're going to translate all the other song titles to English, why not Germany, France, Mexico, Spain and Netherlands?

	cazthisis:	Mar 8th, 2010 at 16:01 GMT	2 points
	England doesn't have a national anthem, 'God Save the Queen' is the collective United Kingdom's anthem

	Garble86:	Apr 21st, 2010 at 08:27 GMT	2 points
	This South African couldn't get South Africa... Nobody calls it that!!! I tried seventy-five thousand combinations of Nkosi Sikhelele iAfrika / Die Stem, which is perfectly correct. >Insert Storm Cloud with flashing lightning

	OneManArmy:	May 3rd, 2010 at 06:03 GMT	1 point
	All I got was the most popular ones, Star Spangled Banner, O Canada, and god save the queen, then I just gave up, but South Africas is pretty obvious.

	asafe:	Jan 10th, 2011 at 09:11 GMT	1 point
	The translation of the Dutch anthem would be 'The William'. Maybe that is why it's not translated here:P

	eab21:	Feb 9th, 2011 at 21:41 GMT	1 point
	No "National Anthem of the Kyrgyz Republic"?

	jpdench3:	May 23rd, 2011 at 02:43 GMT	1 point
	i got 8, i'll take it