{"id":139,"date":"2011-12-26T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/?p=139"},"modified":"2012-01-01T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T02:00:41","slug":"christmas-trivia-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2011\/12\/26\/christmas-trivia-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Trivia 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I write a ten-question trivia quiz for my office&#8217;s holiday party.  And this year I&#8217;m sharing it on the blog!  Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>1. In reaction to Fox News (and others) calling for people to &#8220;put the Christ back in Christmas&#8221;, some on Facebook have started calling for people to put who back in Thursday?<\/p>\n<p>2. Which astronomical object which passes by Earth approximately every 76 years was visible in 12 BC, leading some to believe it may have been the Star of Bethlehem?<\/p>\n<p>3. The tallest snowman ever was built in 2008 and named &#8220;Olympia SnowWoman.&#8221; In which U.S. state was it made?  Hint: not Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>4. North American reindeer are usually called by what other name?<\/p>\n<p>5. Which man, Duke of Bohemia from 921 to 935, was eventually elevated to Sainthood and even posthumously declared king as a result of his legendary goodness?<\/p>\n<p>6. What comedian portrayed the fictional character &#8220;Hanukkah Harry&#8221; on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> from 1989 to 1990?<\/p>\n<p>7. Which territory of Australia was named by Captain William Mynors as he sailed past it in December of 1643?<\/p>\n<p>8. What phrase ends the Charles Dickens novella &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>9. Which country music megastar sang about the War on Christmas in his<br \/>\nsong &#8220;Have I Got a Present for You&#8221; on the 2008 special <em>A Colbert Christmas: The<br \/>\nGreatest Gift of All!<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>10. What 1996 movie inspired one reviewer to quip that<br \/>\nArnold Schwarzenegger shows &#8220;the comic timing of a dead moose&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Want the answers?  You can google them &#8230; or discuss in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I write a ten-question trivia quiz for my office&#8217;s holiday party. And this year I&#8217;m sharing it on the blog! Enjoy. 1. In reaction to Fox News (and others) calling for people to &#8220;put the Christ back in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2011\/12\/26\/christmas-trivia-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}