GAMES


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SOLUTION TO Last Month's' CRYPTOGRAM:


"You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas."
James M Barrie






 

Game

This month's quiz deals with the start of the New Year. Many places celebrate a New Year, but often at different times in the earth's path around then. Because they have different calendars, just when the new year falls on the calendar in use by the West varies. These questions all deal with New Year's events in Scotland.


1. What is the holiday that corresponds roughly to the days celebrating the start of the New Year?

2. What is the term used for the first person to be a guest to enter the house on New Year''s Day?

3. What is the song most commonly associated with this day?

4. In 1996-1997, the Guinness Book of records recognized the largest New Year's Eve party in the world (with more than 40,000 attendees) as having taken place in which Scottish City?

5. Historically presents were given out in Scotland on the first Monday of the New Year by employers to staff, parents to children or teachers to students. What was the name of the day on which his practice (now basically gone), occurred ?




ANSWERS TO Last Month's' QUIZ:

1. Verdi had a fondness for Shakespeare and several of his operas deal with Shakespearean plays. Which one is set in Scotland?

Answer: Macbeth


2. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the libretto loosely based on a Sir Walter Scott novel. Gaetano Donizetti set it to music - with a famous mad scene in it. Can you name the opera?

Answer: Lucia Di Lammermoor


3. French composer Georges Bizet wrote an opera set in Scotland. He is the composer of such operas as Samson and Delilah and Carmen (which as you might have guessed are definitely not set in Scotland). The name of a Scottish town appears in the title (in French). The opera, first performed in 1867. Can you tell us the name of the opera (either the French or English title will do)?

Answer: La jolie fille de Perth or The Fair Maid of Perth


4. Donizetti also wrote an opera about another Scottish person, but alas, for our quiz it is not set in Scotland. However, another composer, Louis Neidermeyer, composed an opera (in French) about the same character but this time at least part of the opera in Scotland. The opera takes its name from the name of the main character. Can you name the opera?

Answer: Marie Stuart


5. This modern chamber opera with words and music by Peter Maxwell Davies was first performed in Edinburgh in 1980 is based on a true story – one which the Scotia News has even carried an article about. Can you name it?

Answer: The Lighthouse



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