Robert Burns

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# Clue Answer As Given Value Round Category Air Date Show
"Edina! Scotia's darling seat!" begins "Address to Edinburgh", a poem not in the Scottish dialect by this man (Rabbie) Burns $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2024-01-23 #9022
Poetic insult contests called flyting, basically 15th c. rap battles, are parodied in this Scottish poet's "To a Louse" (Robert) Burns $400 J POETS 2022-05-17 #8642
He wrote, "Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes" (Robert) Burns $1,600 DJ POETS & POETRY 2018-06-22 #7790
"Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led" (Rabbie) Burns $200 J NAME THAT POET! 2018-03-06 #7712
This Scot's first poetry collection included "To a Mouse" & "To a Louse" (Rabbie) Burns $200 J POETS & POETRY 2017-11-14 #7632
"The Bard of Ayrshire" (Rabbie) Burns $2,000 DJ POETS' MONIKERS 2015-04-06 #7041
The Nancy in this Scot's "A Fond Kiss" was Agnes McLehose Robert Burns $400 DJ POETIC WOMEN 2013-12-16 #6731
"Farewell the glen sae bushy, O! Farewell the plain sae rashy, O! To other lands I now must go, To sing my highland lassie, O" Robert Burns $400 DJ POET, KNOW IT 2013-04-03 #6578
To hear about "My Highland Lassie" / My poor heart, it yearns / For he wrote 'em, I just quote 'em / He is... (Rabbie) Burns $400 DJ POEMS ON POETS 2011-10-24 #6231
He was the "Ploughman Poet":RB Robert Burns DD $2,000 DJ POETS' MONOGRAMS 2011-02-04 #6080
The poem "Highland Mary" is inscribed on the scroll at his statue's feet in Central Park's Literary Walk Robert Burns $1,600 DJ POETRY 2010-10-19 #6002
"The Twa Dogs" & "Scotch Drink" are among his "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" (Rabbie) Burns $800 DJ BOB'S YOUR POET 2010-02-01 #5846
Our New Year's are fine / 'Cause he wrote "Auld Lang Syne" / His pen was hot, man / He's the national poet of Scotland (Robert) Burns $400 J ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS 2009-02-04 #5623
His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was first published on July 31, 1786 in Kilmarnock & sold 600 copies (Rabbie) Burns $400 DJ POETS 2008-06-04 #5478
On New Year's Eve we should give thanks to this Scottish poet for his "Auld Lang Syne" Robert Burns $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2007-05-03 #5224
"My luve is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June", once swooned this poetic Scot (Rabbie) Burns $600 J THE POETRY OF LOVE 2006-10-27 #5090
In a 1789 poem, he wrote "Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, the hills of the highlands for ever I love" (Rabbie) Burns $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2006-01-26 #4924
With words likethe following, this poet's name could be read as a statement:"So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, /So deep in luve am I; /And I will luve thee still, my dear, /Till a’ the seas gang dry" Robert Burns $600 DJ LOVE POETRY WITH JOHNNY GILBERT 2000-02-14 #3561
This Scot's affair with a servant lass named Elizabeth produced a child in 1785 Robert Burns $800 DJ POETIC LICENSE 1998-10-26 #3251
"The best laid schemes o' mice & men gang aft a-gley" Robert Burns $400 DJ POETRY 1998-10-14 #3243
His poem, "Highland Mary", was inspired by Mary Campbell, to whom he was engaged Burns $200 J POETS & POETRY 1997-05-28 #2948
This Scottish poet wrote the songs "Comin' Thro' The Rye" & "The Banks O' Doon" Robert Burns $400 DJ POETRY 1997-02-13 #2874
For much of the winter of 1794-95, he served as acting supervisor for Dumfries, Scotland Robert Burns $600 DJ POETS 1996-12-06 #2825
The literati in Edinburgh called him the "Ploughman Poet" Robert Burns $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 1996-09-27 #2775
George Thomson's "Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs" contains many of his songs Robert Burns $600 DJ POETS 1996-01-11 #2619
He wrote "Ah, Tam! Ah, tam! Thou'll get thy fairin! In hell they'll roast thee like a herrin!" Robert Burns $400 DJ POETRY 1995-09-29 #2545
The Grand Masonic Lodge of Scotland dubbed him "Caledonia's Bard" (Rabbie) Burns $600 DJ POETS 1995-02-10 #2410
This Scot is perhaps best known for his songs "Auld Lang Syne" & "Comin' Thro' The Rye" (Rabbie) Burns $400 DJ POETS 1995-01-03 #2382
His poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, was first published July 31, 1786, in Kilmarnock Robert Burns $100 J POETS 1994-11-22 #2352
This poet helped compile "The Scots Musical Museum", an 18th c. collection of Scottish folk songs (Rabbie) Burns $200 DJ POETS 1994-04-13 #2223
His "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was published in 1786 with about half the 600 copies pre-sold Robert Burns $200 DJ BRITISH POETS 1993-11-18 #2119
He was "The Peasant Bard" of Scotland (Rabbie) Burns $600 DJ POETS' NICKNAMES 1993-03-02 #1962
Some of his early poems like "The Brigs of Ayr" imitated those of another Scottish poet, Robert Fergusson Robert Burns $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 1992-12-30 #1918
This Scot was known as the Ayrshire Ploughman Robert Burns $600 DJ POETRY 1992-09-17 #1844
Scotsman who wrote about his wife, "There's not a bonie bird that sings, but minds me o' my Jean" (Robert) Burns $800 DJ POETS & POETRY 1992-07-16 #1834
"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was his first published collection of poems Robert Burns $200 DJ POETS 1992-02-28 #1735
The 18th century poet who wrote "The hills of the highlands forever I love" Robert Burns $200 DJ POETRY 1992-02-06 #1719
His first collection of poems included "To a Mouse" & "To a Louse" Robert Burns $800 DJ POETS & POETRY 1992-01-09 #1699
This Scottish poet wrote an ode to "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785" (Rabbie) Burns $200 J POETS & POETRY 1991-09-26 #1624
This poet's "Tam o' Shanter" was inspired by Alloway Kirk, a church in Ayrshire, Scotland Robert Burns $200 DJ POETRY 1991-04-22 #1541
Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote, "My candle" does this "at both ends; it will not last the night" burns $100 J POETRY 1990-10-26 #1415
In 1786 this poet was toasted as "Caledonia's Bard" by the Masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland Robert Burns $1,000 DJ POETS 1990-02-05 #1256
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, & never brought to mind?" Robert Burns $200 DJ NAME THAT POET 1989-11-13 #1196
A witch named Cutty Sark pulls a mare's tail off in his poem "Tam O'Shanter" Robert Burns $400 J POETRY 1989-05-03 #1088
Some Scots celebrate his birthday by eating sheep parts & singing "Auld Lang Syne" (Robert) Burns $400 DJ POETS 1988-12-27 #997
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