I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier

Question 0

What song did Fred White of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps find cynicall?

Answer 0

Nearer My God to Thee

Question 1

What German Unteroffizier described a service in which they sung Oh, Wounded Head?

Answer 1

Johannes Haas

Question 2

What tune was Cathedral de Reims sung to?

Answer 2

C’est si joli la femme

Question 3

Why was the Rheims Cathedral targeted by the Germans in 1914?

Answer 3

Because of its ability to serve as an observational post

Question 4

What newspaper called the destruction of the Rheims Cathedral the Kaiser’s Crowning Infamy?

Answer 4

The Daily News in London

Question 5

What had Kings done at the Rheims Cathedral for generations?

Answer 5

Been consecrated at its alter with oil brought down from heaven by a dove

Question 6

What American soldier had been an avid collector of songs from the Appalachian Region

Answer 6

John Jacob Niles

Question 7

What were the only troops that John Jacob Niles found didn’t just repeat the latest hits but made up their own songs?

Answer 7

African-American troops

Question 8

What African American song collected by John Jacob Niles had a mournful refrain?

Answer 8

Grave-Diggers

Question 9

Who wrote The Bravest Heart of All?

Answer 9

Arthur J. Lamb and Henry Clique

Question 10

Who was The Bravest Heart of All a tribute to?

Answer 10

Edith Cavell

Question 11

Who was Edith Cavell

Answer 11

An English nurse and Red Cross hospital matron who helped Allied prisoners escape to Belgium and was executed by firing squad

Question 12

Who wrote After The War is Over Will there be any Home Sweet Home?

Answer 12

E.J. Pour man, Joseph Woodruff and Henry Andrieu

Question 13

What did Harry Hamilton and Ed Thomas write?

Answer 13

The Boys Who Won’t Come Home

Question 14

Who wrote They Sleep in Fields of Battle?

Answer 14

Duncan J. Muir

Question 15

Who wrote Where Where Is the Boy Who Went Over the Sea?

Answer 15

Marie Rich

Question 16

What is the most famous poem of the world?

Answer 16

In Flanders Field

Question 17

Who wrote In Flanders Fields?

Answer 17

Canadian physician John McCrae

Question 18

What poet wrote about laughter and caring?

Answer 18

T.P. Cameron

Question 19

Who recalled that they thought about everything but their tired feet?

Answer 19

Lieutenant Power

Question 20

Who explained one musical torment targeted at commanding officers?

Answer 20

Rifleman Stanely Hopkins

Question 21

What was the most humorous song heard by French soldiers and citizens?

Answer 21

Quand Madelon (When Madelon)

Question 22

Who composed Quand Madelon and who added its words?

Answer 22

Camille Robert with words by Louis Basquet

Question 23

Who is Madelon in When Madelon?

Answer 23

A flirtatious waitress who gets asked in marriage by a corporal, she refuses saying that she loves the whole regiment and she needs her hand to serve drinks

Question 24

What was When the Roll is Called up Yonder retooled as?

Answer 24

When the Guns are Rolling Yonder

Question 25

What WW1 song is still sung by Children at Halloween

Answer 25

The Hearse Song

Question 26

What was Sing Me to Sleep retooled as?

Answer 26

Far, Far from Ypres

Question 27

What was the song Kind Thoughts Can Never die retooled as?

Answer 27

Old Soldiers never die

Question 28

What song was quoted by General Douglas McArthur during the Korean War?

Answer 28

Old Soldiers Never Die

Question 29

What musicologist pointed out that McArthur forgot the second stanza's text in Old Soldiers Never Die?

Answer 29

Glenn Watkins

Question 30

What was one humorous song written during the war?

Answer 30

How Ya Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm

Question 31

What was Irving Berlin's humorous contribution to the war?

Answer 31

They were all out of step but Jim

Question 32

The music played by makeshift trench orchestras included what composers?

Answer 32

Christoph Willibard Gluck, Frederic Chopin, Jules Massanet, Charles Marie Widor, Camille Saint Saens

Question 33

Who was the Third Reich's propaganda minister?

Answer 33

Joseph Goebbels

Question 34

Most pacifist songs were from whose viewpoint?

Answer 34

The parents

Question 35

What pacifist song had lyrics by Will Dillon and music by Albert Von Tilzer?

Answer 35

Don't Take My Darling BoyAway

Question 36

What was Irving Berlin's contribution to Pacifism?

Answer 36

Stay Down Here Where You Belong

Question 37

What is the subtitle for I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

Answer 37

A Mother's Plea For Peace, respectfully dedicated to every mother-everywhere

Question 38

What is the tempo for I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

Answer 38

Marziale or march like

Question 39

Who wrote the music for I didn't raise My Boy to Be A Soldier?

Answer 39

Al Piantadosi

Question 40

Who wrote the lyrics for I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier?

Answer 40

Alfred Bryan

Question 41

Who was the publisher for I didn't raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

Answer 41

Leo Frost

Question 42

How many copies of I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier were sold in the first two months?

Answer 42

700,000 copies

Question 43

What school principal taught I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier to his kids?

Answer 43

Alexander Fichandler

Question 44

What national guard Major was annoyed at students learning what he dubbed anti-military propaganda?

Answer 44

Major Sydney Grant of the 18th Coast Artillery

Question 45

When did the Victor Talking Machine Company withdraw I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

Answer 45

April 1917 after America entered the war

Question 46

What Irish melody does the first phrase of I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier have much in common with?

Answer 46

The Moreen

Question 47

To what song did Thomas Moore set the lyrics for The Minstrel Boy?

Answer 47

The Moreen

Question 48

What gives the mother's plea extra poignancy in I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

Answer 48

Chromaticism

Question 49

What were the three parodies to I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

Answer 49

I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Slacker, I'm going to Raise my Boy to Be a Soldier and a credit to the USA, I'm sure I wasn't Raised to be a Soldier But I'll Fight for the Dear Old Red White and Blue