Christmas Trivia.

Despite a creeping throat cold, I ran a Christmas-themed trivia game at my family's Christmas Day party. I borrowed the scoring system called Trivia Football from NPL member Conundrum. Since that scoring system idn't going to work on the weblog, I'm going to offer a modified version.

Each of the questions below has at least eight correct answers. Without using any references, create a list of seven answers. Your score for the question will be the number of correct answers given before giving an incorrect answer. For example, if you were asked to identify the true love's gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", and if your answer sheet looked like this:

1. Maids a-Milking
   
2. Lords a-Leaping
   
3. Pipettes Piping
   
4. A Partridge in a Pear Tree
   
5. Golden Rings
   
6. McDonald's Happy Meal
   
7. Turtledoves

. . . then your score would be two. Although there are five correct answers in total, only two are given before the first incorrect one. Incorrect answers have no penalty, so if you run out of answers you are sure of, you can add other guesses to pad your list out to seven.

( Tablesaw's Christmas Trivia Bonanza! )

Answers will be accepted by e-mail until the end of the year. The winner or winners will receive some stuff that's lying around my house.

Christmas Trivia Clarifications

In response to some questions about Tablesaw's Christmas Trivia Bonanza, I've made a few clarifying changes to the questions.

Question 1: On the NCAA website, bowls are listed without their sponsors (e.g., the Orange Bowl is listed as "Orange Bowl", not as "FedEx Orange Bowl." However, there are instances where the entire bowl name is the sponsor; in these cases, it is listed on the NCAA website as such (as in the fictional "LiveJournal.com Bowl").

Question 6: The Eleventh Edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has an additional entry with the word "Christmastime" in its definition and an additional entry with "Christmastide" in its definition. These entries will also be accepted, bringing the total of acceptable answers to twenty.

Question 7: The name that appears twice in the genealogy can only be used as an answer once.

Players who have already sent in answer sheets will not be negatively affected by these changes.