Over There

Question 0

What song was routinely sung at British recruitment rallies?

Answer 0

Your King and Country Want You

Question 1

Who wrote Your King and Your Country Want You?

Answer 1

Paul A. Rubens

Question 2

What was one of the most aggressive American recruiting songs?

Answer 2

What Kind of American Are You

Question 3

What was Irving Berlin’s song that became The Official Recruiting Song primed on the sheet music cover?

Answer 3

For Your Cuntry and My Country

Question 4

What was Berlin’s other recuriting song?

Answer 4

Let’s All Be American now

Question 5

What were the two French patriotic songs dating from the French Revolution?

Answer 5

Chant du depart and La Marseillaise

Question 6

What were throngs of people singing in Paris the night before mobilization was to begin according to Edit Wharton?

Answer 6

Chant du depart

Question 7

What French liuetenant remarked that a level crossings crowds would sing La Marseillaise to incoming troops?

Answer 7

Henri Desagneaux

Question 8

What was England’s national anthem?

Answer 8

GOd Save the King

Question 9

Who said that God Save the King is not suitable as a marching tune?

Answer 9

Critic Ernest Newman

Question 10

Why was God Save the King and the Star-Spangled Banner not suitable for marching?

Answer 10

Because they were both in triple meter while marching is in duple meter

Question 11

What song emphasized the patriotism of walking rather than driving?

Answer 11

Keep Cool! The Country’s Saving Fuel (And I Had to Come Home in the Dark)

Question 12

What song was a promotion of belt tightening?

Answer 12

Ill Do Without Meat and Ill Do Without Wheat But I Cant Do Without Love

Question 13

What song was an advertising campaign for American cigarettes?

Answer 13

The Makin’s of the U.S.A> (A Plea in Song fo tobacco for the Boys Over There)

Question 14

What is a Bull Durham?

Answer 14

A popular cigarette marketed by the American Tobacco Comany

Question 15

What commercial song did Harry von Tilzer and Vincent Bryan produce?

Answer 15

In My Merry Oldsmobile (1905)

Question 16

What newspaper received a letter from a Colonel praising the quantity of cigarettes that were sent over to France ?

Answer 16

The New York Sun

Question 17

What pivate wrote a Hymn of Hate against England?

Answer 17

Ernst Lissauer

Question 18

What did the Kaiser do when he heared Lissauer’s Hymn of Hate against England?

Answer 18

Give him a medal

Question 19

What two works did John Philip Sousa make to contribute to America’s esprit de corps?

Answer 19

Sabre and Spears and Solid Men to the Front

Question 20

What tune did Sousa arrange to serve as the U.S> Field Artillery March?

Answer 20

Over Hill, Over Dale

Question 21

What was the Russian term for theatrical entertainments?

Answer 21

Estrada

Question 22

What was the German justification for invading Belgium?

Answer 22

That the Flemish people were actually a Germanic race that deserved incoporation into the Reich

Question 23

How was the theme of the Flemish race deserving incorporation into the third Reich in musical plots?

Answer 23

By Flemish lasses and German men in arms fallnig in love

Question 24

According to the rules of troupe how many members were allowed to be in the troop?

Answer 24

Up to six

Question 25

According to the rules that governed troup performance how many days could a performance last?

Answer 25

No more than two to three days

Question 26

Where did the first English concerts start in France?

Answer 26

In the port of Le Harve in 1915

Question 27

What British nurse described the impact of on hospital concert?

Answer 27

Dorothy Nicol

Question 28

What two songs were produced after the sinking of the Luisitania?

Answer 28

When the Lusitania Went Down and the Lusitania Memorial Hymn

Question 29

What was the name of George M. Cohan’s daughter?

Answer 29

Mary

Question 30

What did George M. Cohan do when he finished making Over There?

Answer 30

Hold a broom for a gun and sing Over There as he marched around the kitchen

Question 31

Who painted the cover image for Over There?

Answer 31

Norman Rockwall

Question 32

What did Cohan modestly later say he did when he made Over There?

Answer 32

That he only dramatized a bule call

Question 33

What did Cohan use to make most of his tunes?

Answer 33

The four major and minor chords that can be produced by the piano’s black keys

Question 34

What did Cohan do with his royalties from Over There?

Answer 34

Donate them to war charities

Question 35

What was Cohan eventually awarded for his national support with Over There?

Answer 35

A COngressional Gold Medal in 1936

Question 36

What did cynical doughboys change the last line of over There to?

Answer 36

And we wont come back, we’ll be buried over their

Question 37

what vaudeville star recorded this performance of Over There?

Answer 37

nora Bayes

Question 38

What composer recorded Over There and adjusted the text to make it international and added drums to mimic machine-gun fire?

Answer 38

Enrico Caruso

Question 39

What did scornful British troops change the last two lines of the chorus in Over There to?

Answer 39

They’re coming over, they’re coming over,/ And they won’t get there til its over, over there

Question 40

What was the Britsih nickname for American soldiers?

Answer 40

Sammie