And here are the results from the North Pole Jury...have a great Xmas 1) In the song The Twelve Days Of Christmas how many gifts are given in total if you give them as they are sung? a. There’s a very simple mathematical way to work this out. On the first day the giver sends a partridge in a pear tree, on the second two turtle doves and another partridge in a pear tree and so on – so if you do 1x12, 2x11, 3x10 all the way through to 12x1 and add up the total you get 364 presents in total and a hell of a lot of guano 2) Who, or what, is Svatý Václav? a. And as anyone who watches The Big Bang Theory should know Svatý Václav is thought to be the origin of the story of Good King Wenceslas 3) According to The Bible how many wise men attended the birth of Jesus? a. Deduct a point if you said 3 for two reasons. Firstly they weren’t Wise Men, they were Magi and secondly because The Bible never says how many there were – we assume there were three because that’s how many presents there were, but maybe the fourth one got to the shops too late, got trampled on Black Friday or they were just the three heads of a much larger group 4) A chance for multiple points here as I want you to name as many of the pop stars who had lines on the verses of the ORIGINAL version of Band Aid’s single “Do They Know It’s Christmas” – with a point for each you can name– and just to be clear: singing the chorus doesn’t count – they have to have had a solo verse line a. So: in order they were Paul Young, Boy George, George Michael, Simon Le Bon, Sting, Bono (Paul Young also sang the “here’s too you...”section solo) 5) In Spain around Christmas time it is traditional to hit what object with a stick in order to receive presents? a. A hollow log (and Gemma Harris Ill tell your mum if you got that one wrong!) 6) Which Christmas song starts: It’s December the twenty-fourth, and I’m longing to go up north. a. White Christmas – the start coda is rarely used these days 7) Which film based at a Christmas party takes place largely at the Nakatomi Plaza? a. Die Hard 8) In what town does the film It’s A Wonderful Life largely take place? a. The town of Bedford Falls 9) What roman festival originally ran from 17th – 23rd December? a. And again any Big Bang Theory fan should know that this was Saturnalia 10) In 2009 which ageing musician surprised their fans by releasing an album comprised entirely of Christmas cover-versions? a. Bob Dylan (see below) 11) A couple of years ago there was a campaign to keep The X Factor single off the Christmas No 1 slot called Rage Against The X-Factor with a re-release of Killing In The Name by Rage Against The Machine…but what was the name of the campaign the next year and what was the release? a. Cage Against The X-Factor – an attempt to get John Cage’s infamous 4’33” to Number One – which is essentially a recording of orchestra members doing nothing 12) What do Quentin Crisp, Marge Simpson, Edward Snowdon and Katie Price have in common? a. They have all delivered Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Speech
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