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Trivia Answers.
Before I tell you who won, here are the answer lists that I was working from:
The answers to Question One can be found on the NCAA Football website. My list was taken from the 2003-2004 Bowl Schedule, which also includes the locations and results of the games this year.
If you don't have your own copy of Bing Crosby's wonderful album White Christmas, then you can find the answers to Question Two at Amazon, which has a page for the CD that includes the entire track list.
As mentioned in Question Three, my source for the question about the Arctic Circle was AllThingsArctic.com, which I then doublechecked with an Oxford World Atlas and Google. (Iceland, though mostly outside of the Arctic Circle has one small island (Grimsey) that is barely north of the line, which led to its inclusion here.)
Because Amazon's top-selling DVDs change constantly, the page I used for Question Four is long lost in the ether. Here's my copy, which also includes the unacceptable answers of sixteen through twenty-five on the list:
Kay Bee took down "The 2003 Holiday Hot Toys List" that was the source for Question Five on Christmas Day. Here's my copy, in alphabetical order. You'll not some entries marked with brackets. Those are ones where I was willing to accept a wider range of answers (such as anything Barbie instead of the particular accessory mentioned on the list).
Thankfully, none of the problems that arose for Question Six had to be settled when I played this live. I never intended any question to have overly tricky answers, so when Santa Claus turned out to have "Christmastime" in its definition instead of "Christmas", I had to widen the scope. Further, one player listed "wreath" which did not show up on the definition search, but which did have the word "Christmas" in its definition. It was, of course, added to the list of acceptable answers. Here is the final list, along with the definitions, or relevant parts thereof:
Question Seven's genealogy from the Gospel of Matthew can be found on the web in two place, from the online New American Bible or from the online excerpt of the same used in the Christmas Vigil Mass referred to in the question. Since there are a lot of answers, here's the lsit that I used in alphabetical order: Abijah, Abiud, Achim, Ahaz, Amminadab, Amos, Azor, Asaph, Boaz, Eleazar, Eliakim, Eliud, Hezekiah, Hezron, Isaac, Jacob, Jechoniah, Jehoshaphat, Jesse, Josiah, Jotham, Joram, Judah, Manasseh, Matthan, Nahshon, Obed, Perez, Rahab, Ram, Rehoboam, Ruth, Salmon, Shealtiel, Solomon, Tamar, Uriah, Uzziah, Zadok, Zerah, Zerubbabel. (And for those wondering, the repeated name was Jacob, who was the son of Isaac and the father of Joseph.)
Finally, I went straight to the source looking for my answer to Question Eight, the Macy's Parade Site. After worrying that the only way to get the information would be to sit through the Virtual Parade, I eventually found the press release listing all the balloons, including descriptions. (NB: It's a PDF file.)
And those are all of the answers that I accepted. Now let's see how everyone did . . .
The answers to Question One can be found on the NCAA Football website. My list was taken from the 2003-2004 Bowl Schedule, which also includes the locations and results of the games this year.
If you don't have your own copy of Bing Crosby's wonderful album White Christmas, then you can find the answers to Question Two at Amazon, which has a page for the CD that includes the entire track list.
As mentioned in Question Three, my source for the question about the Arctic Circle was AllThingsArctic.com, which I then doublechecked with an Oxford World Atlas and Google. (Iceland, though mostly outside of the Arctic Circle has one small island (Grimsey) that is barely north of the line, which led to its inclusion here.)
Because Amazon's top-selling DVDs change constantly, the page I used for Question Four is long lost in the ether. Here's my copy, which also includes the unacceptable answers of sixteen through twenty-five on the list:
- Finding Nemo
- Pirates of the Caribbean--The Curse of the black pearl
- The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers)
- Seabiscuit (Wide Screen)
- Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring)
- Seabiscuit (Full Screen)
- Freaky Friday
- The Adventures of Indiana Jones (Box set)
- Winged Migration
- Family Guy (Vol 1, seasons 1 & 2)
- Looney Tunes -- The Golden Collection
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 5)
- The Simpsons (Season 3)
- Sex and the City (Season 5)
- X2 -- X-men United.
- Family Guy (Vol. 2, Season 3)
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- The Lion King
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- A Christmas Story
- Friends (Season 5)
- The West Wing (Season 1)
- Bruce Almighty
- The Sopranos (season 4)
- Concert for George
- Family Guy (Vol. 2, Season 3)
Kay Bee took down "The 2003 Holiday Hot Toys List" that was the source for Question Five on Christmas Day. Here's my copy, in alphabetical order. You'll not some entries marked with brackets. Those are ones where I was willing to accept a wider range of answers (such as anything Barbie instead of the particular accessory mentioned on the list).
- Barbie [and Krissy Princess Palace Playset]
- Beyblade
- Bratz Dolls and Accessories
- Care Bears
- FurReal Friends
- Game Boy Advance SP
- George W. Bush Elite Force Aviator
- Hokey Pokey Elmo
- Hot Wheels Hot 100 Die Cast Cars
- Hulk Hands
- LeapPad [Plus Writing Learning System]
- Lego [Bionicle]
- Lord of the Rings Action Figures
- Mighty Beanz
- My First Craftsman Tool Toys
- Smithsonian Science Toys (Telescope, biodome, microscope, planetarium)
- Transformers
- VideoNow
- Zodiac Girlz Dolls and Accessories
Thankfully, none of the problems that arose for Question Six had to be settled when I played this live. I never intended any question to have overly tricky answers, so when Santa Claus turned out to have "Christmastime" in its definition instead of "Christmas", I had to widen the scope. Further, one player listed "wreath" which did not show up on the definition search, but which did have the word "Christmas" in its definition. It was, of course, added to the list of acceptable answers. Here is the final list, along with the definitions, or relevant parts thereof:
- Advent: the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
- balsam fir: a resinous North American fir (Abies balsamea) that is widely used for pulpwood and as a Christmas tree and is the source of Canada balsam
- Boxing Day: the first weekday after Christmas observed as a legal holiday in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and marked by the giving of Christmas boxes to service workers (such as postal workers)
- carol[2,verb] : to go about outdoors in a group singing Christmas carols
- glogg : a hot spiced wine and liquor punch served in Scandinavian countries as a Christmas drink
- holly : any of a genus (Ilex of the family Aquifoliaceae, the holly family) of trees and shrubs; especially : either of two (I. opaca of the eastern United States and I. aquifolium of Eurasia) with spiny-margined evergreen leaves and usually red berries often used for Christmas decorations
- icicle : a long narrow strip (as of foil) used to decorate a Christmas tree
- lord of misrule : a master of Christmas revels in England especially in the15th and 16th centuries
- luminaria : a traditional Mexican Christmas lantern originally consisting of a candle set in sand inside a paper bag
- noel : CHRISTMAS
- pantomime[1,noun] : a British theatrical entertainment of the Christmas season based on a nursery tale and featuring topical songs, tableaux, and dances
- pinata : a decorated vessel (as of papier-m*ch*) filled with candies, fruits, and gifts and hung up to be broken with sticks by blindfolded persons as part of especially Latin-American festivities (as at Christmas or for a birthday party)
- Santa Claus : a plump white-bearded and red-suited old man in modern folklore who delivers presents to good children at Christmastime--called also Santa
- simnel : a rich fruitcake sometimes coated with almond paste and baked for mid-Lent, Easter, and Christmas (British)
- stocking stuffer : a small gift suitable for placing in a Christmas stocking
- wait[2,noun] : one of a group who serenade for gratuities especially at the Christmas season (2) : a piece of music by such a group
- wassail[2,verb] : to sing carols from house to house at Christmas
- wreath : a decorative arrangement of foliage or flowers on a circular base <a Christmas wreath>
- yule : the feast of the nativity of Jesus Christ : CHRISTMAS
- Yule log : a large log formerly put on the hearth on Christmas Eve as the foundation of the fire
- yuletide : CHRISTMASTIDE
Question Seven's genealogy from the Gospel of Matthew can be found on the web in two place, from the online New American Bible or from the online excerpt of the same used in the Christmas Vigil Mass referred to in the question. Since there are a lot of answers, here's the lsit that I used in alphabetical order: Abijah, Abiud, Achim, Ahaz, Amminadab, Amos, Azor, Asaph, Boaz, Eleazar, Eliakim, Eliud, Hezekiah, Hezron, Isaac, Jacob, Jechoniah, Jehoshaphat, Jesse, Josiah, Jotham, Joram, Judah, Manasseh, Matthan, Nahshon, Obed, Perez, Rahab, Ram, Rehoboam, Ruth, Salmon, Shealtiel, Solomon, Tamar, Uriah, Uzziah, Zadok, Zerah, Zerubbabel. (And for those wondering, the repeated name was Jacob, who was the son of Isaac and the father of Joseph.)
Finally, I went straight to the source looking for my answer to Question Eight, the Macy's Parade Site. After worrying that the only way to get the information would be to sit through the Virtual Parade, I eventually found the press release listing all the balloons, including descriptions. (NB: It's a PDF file.)
And those are all of the answers that I accepted. Now let's see how everyone did . . .
Question Six