What’s your Robert Burns I.Q.? Take our trivia test…

1) What work by Robert Burns is regularly sung during the holiday season?

2) What 1937 novelette by John Steinbeck got its name from a line in a Burns poem?

3) Who was the mother of the first child fathered by Robert Burns?

4) Who was Burns’ favorite mistress, with whom he fathered twins born on September 3, 1786?

5) Whom of his other sweethearts did Burns invite to “go to the Indies?”

BONUS QUESTION (thanks TO Scottish native Sheena Kopman)

6) Which contemporary rock group has a name which was possibly inspired by Burns’ poem, Come Rede Me Dame?

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