Thursday’s questions

1. From which poem by which poet do these words come:

 . . . All changed, changed utterly:   
A terrible beauty is born.?

2. Who composed St Matthew’s Passion?

3. From which work by which composer does the  Hallelujah Chorus come?

4. By what name is Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua more commonly known?

5. Hot Cross buns on Good Friday and Easter eggs on Sunday – or any time you want them?

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5 Responses to Thursday’s questions

  1. J Bloggs's avatar J Bloggs says:
    17/04/2014 at 12:24 pm

    1) Easter 1916 – W. B. Yeats
    2) J. S Bach
    3) Messiah – Handel
    4) Easter Island
    5) Stick to the days in question – spiced bread rolls (sans cross) and chocolate in other forms can be enjoyed any other day of the year.

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  2. J Bloggs's avatar J Bloggs says:
    17/04/2014 at 12:37 pm

    And related to #3 – While singing the Hallelujah chorus from Messiah is fun, so is singing this one:

    Hallelujah – from “Christ on the Mount of Olives (Christus am Olberge) – L. Beethoven.

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  3. Andrei's avatar Andrei says:
    17/04/2014 at 1:36 pm

    (1) Easter 1916 – William Butler Yeats

    (2) (a) J S Bach
    (b) Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev

    (3) Handel’s Messiah

    (4) Easter Island “Isla de Pascua” means of course Island of Easter when literally translated from Spanish.

    Question 3 has traditionally been a language question in Ele’s wonderful Thursday quiz so I wondered what it might be in Russian, guessing, correctly as it turns out that it would be Остров Пасхи (Ostrov Paskhi) and this brings up an interesting thing about the festivals name itself because the relationship between Pascua and Пасхи (Paschi) is obvious and in fact in our Church often use Pashka in place of Easter (a transliteration of both Russian and Greek) – Spanish for Easter is Pascua as above – English is the odd one out,

    (4) Back to the quizz 🙂

    (5) Friday virtually nothing if you are being strict
    Sunday the eggs and Kulich (yummy better than hot cross buns)

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  4. J Bloggs's avatar J Bloggs says:
    17/04/2014 at 2:04 pm

    This article gives a good idea of where the English & German words appear from, which sort of explains why it differs from those countries whose languages were more significantly based on Latin

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre

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  5. Rob Hosking's avatar Rob Hosking says:
    18/04/2014 at 10:03 am

    1. Yeats. Easter 1916.
    2. Bach.
    3. Handel
    4. Easter Island.
    5. Sunday for both. And roast lamb for dinner.

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