{"id":3499,"date":"2021-03-07T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2021-03-02T22:04:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:04:14","slug":"mws-quiz-24th-february-2021-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/mws-quiz-24th-february-2021-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"MWS Quiz 24th February 2021 – Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here are the answers to Peter’s latest quiz…<\/em><\/p>\n

Q1a: \u201cGreen Grow The Rushes Oh\u201d was widely sung by American troops in which war?<\/p>\n

Answer: 1846 War with Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n

Q1b: What nickname did the Spanish\/Mexican population give these troops?<\/p>\n

Answer: \u201cGringos\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Q2a:\u00a0What TV series usually ends with a rendition of \u2018Over The Hills & Far Away\u2019?<\/p>\n

Answer: Sharpe<\/span><\/p>\n

Q2b:\u00a0In which century was it first regularly sung by British troops?<\/p>\n

Answer: 18th \u2013 it was a folk tune in the 17th (at least), but \u2018army lyrics\u2019 were 1706.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q3a: Many regiments in the 19th <\/sup>Century had a band. Apart from signalling & boosting morale, what other key function did they often perform in combat?<\/p>\n

Answer: Helping with the wounded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q3b: How did the Romans employ musicians in actual combat with Carthage?<\/p>\n

Answer: Used to help scare the Carthaginian elephants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q4a: For a full orchestral staging, what unusual instruments do you need for a performance of Tchaikovsky\u2019s 1812 overture?<\/p>\n

Answer: Cannon!<\/span><\/p>\n

Q4b: What was the WW2 \u2018Red Orchestra\u2019?<\/p>\n

Answer: German intelligence name for a loose network of Soviet spy rings across Germany & Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q5a: The song \u2018Lili Marlene\u2019 was already very popular among German troops before WW2. Where did the British army first start to take it up?<\/p>\n

Answer: North Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q5b:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ll Meet Again\u201d by Vera Lynn is sung during the closing credits of which famous Cold War film?<\/p>\n

Answer: Dr Strangelove.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q6a:\u00a0Why did Beethoven\u2019s 5th<\/sup> Symphony have such massed appeal in Britain during WW2?<\/p>\n

Answer: The opening 4 beats formed the morse letter V (for Victory).<\/span><\/p>\n

Q6b: Which award-winning Sci-Fi film used five notes as its main theme\/signature?<\/p>\n

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/span><\/p>\n

Q7a:\u00a0A special version of \u2018Men of Harlech\u2019 is sung in a famous scene from which film?<\/p>\n

Answer: Zulu.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q7b:\u00a0What is the full title of the British army unit primarily depicted in the film?<\/p>\n

Answer: 24th Regt of Foot (2nd Warwickshires). Note \u2013 they only became South Wales Borderers in 1881.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q8a: Hollywood notwithstanding, the song \u2018Garryowen\u2019 was most famously adopted by which unit?<\/p>\n

Answer: U.S. 7th cavalry<\/span><\/p>\n

Q8b:\u00a0\u2018The British Grenadiers\u2019 was introduced to the UK by William III, but actually first adopted by which British army unit in 1716?<\/p>\n

Answer: Royal Artillery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q9a:\u00a0Hail The Conquering Hero\u2019 was played in the film \u2018Waterloo\u2019 on what occasion?<\/p>\n

Answer: Duchess of Richmond\u2019s ball in Brussels (entry of the Duke of Wellington)<\/span><\/p>\n

Q9b: For which victorious British Commander was it originally devised\/dedicated?<\/p>\n

Answer: Duke of Cumberland, post-Culloden<\/span><\/p>\n

Q10a:\u00a0General Grant famously said he could only remember two tunes. Which was his favourite?<\/p>\n

Answer: Dixie (he couldn\u2019t remember the name of the other one!)<\/span><\/p>\n

Q10b: \u2018The Star-Spangled Banner\u2019 has been the national anthem of the USA since 1931. Which war was it written to commemorate?<\/p>\n

Answer: The War of 1812<\/span><\/p>\n

Q11a:\u00a0Music has often been used to intimidate the enemy. Which track was played by the 1st<\/sup> \/ 9th<\/sup> (Air Cavalry) in their Hollywood debut?<\/p>\n

Answer: \u2018Ride of the Valkyries\u2019 by Wagner; during the air-assault in the film \u2018Apocalypse Now\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Q11b:\u00a0Where was \u2018rock music\u2019 actually first used officially<\/em> as a psyops weapon?<\/p>\n

Answer: 1989 assault on Panama (attack on General Noriega\u2019s palace)<\/span><\/p>\n

Q12a:\u00a0Which BBC series was one of the first ever to use all-electronic theme music?<\/p>\n

Answer: Dr Who<\/span><\/p>\n

Q12b: Why was \u2018Deep in the Heart of Texas\u2019 banned by the BBC in 1942?<\/p>\n

Answer: Because it was thought that the clapping chorus caused too much production loss by factory workers!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here are the answers to Peter’s latest quiz… Q1a: \u201cGreen Grow The Rushes Oh\u201d was widely sung by American troops in which war? Answer: 1846 War with Mexico Q1b: What nickname did the Spanish\/Mexican population give these troops? Answer: \u201cGringos\u201d Q2a:\u00a0What TV series usually ends with a rendition of \u2018Over The Hills & Far Away\u2019? … Continue reading “MWS Quiz 24th February 2021 – Answers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maidstone-wargames-society","category-quiz-answers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-Ur","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}