{"id":16810,"date":"2012-12-04T06:35:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16810"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:34:58","slug":"trivia-tuesday-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16810","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)<\/p>\n

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  1. “Red Water (Christmas Mourning)” is a song by what gothic metal band?<\/li>\n
  2. The “caganer,” a guy with his pants down defecating on the ground, is a popular addition to Nativity scenes in what country?
    \nA) Serbia
    \nB) Spain
    \nC) Slovenia
    \nD) Germany
    \nE) Estonia<\/li>\n
  3. What was the name of Ebenezer Scrooge\u2019s first employer?<\/li>\n
  4. Who wrote “A Visit From Saint Nicholas” (aka “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”)?
    \nA) Gerard Manley Hopkins
    \nB) Charlotte Mew
    \nC) Clement Clarke Moore
    \nD) Coventry Patmore
    \nE) Stephen Crane<\/li>\n
  5. In Nightmare Before Christmas<\/i>, what are the three trick-or-treaters who kidnap Santa named?<\/li>\n
  6. In Die Hard<\/i> (which takes place at Christmas so it totally fits this category shut up) Hans Gruber’s right-hand-man Karl was played by Alexander Godunov. What was Godunov’s main career?
    \nA) NFL running back
    \nB) Ice skater
    \nC) Politician
    \nD) Newscaster
    \nE) Ballet dancer<\/li>\n
  7. The animated special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!<\/i> was narrated by this well-known horror actor (who also voiced the Grinch).<\/li>\n
  8. The carol “In the Bleak Midwinter” is based on a poem by whom?
    \nA) Christina Rossetti
    \nB) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    \nC) Algernon Charles Swinburne
    \nD) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    \nE) Rudyard Kipling<\/li>\n
  9. In Gremlins<\/i>, Randall Peltzer discovers a small, furry creature in an antique store in Chinatown whilst searching for a Christmas present for his teenage son. What is this creature, which his son names Gizmo, called?<\/li>\n
  10. The “modern” version of Santa Claus as a jolly, portly, bearded fellow was created by what cartoonist in 1863?
    \nA) Charles Keene
    \nB) James Gillray
    \nC) John Leech
    \nD) Thomas Nast
    \nE) John Tenniel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Answers below the fold)<\/p>\n

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    1. Type O Negative<\/li>\n
    2. B) Spain (it’s centered in Catalonia but has spilled out into surrounding areas)<\/li>\n
    3. Fezziwig<\/li>\n
    4. C) Clement Clarke Moore<\/li>\n
    5. Lock, Shock, and Barrel<\/li>\n
    6. E) Ballet dancer<\/li>\n
    7. Boris Karloff. Bonus fact: The song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” was sung (uncredited) by Thurl Ravenscroft, who also voiced one of the ghosts in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion.<\/li>\n
    8. A) Christina Rossetti<\/li>\n
    9. Mogwai<\/li>\n
    10. D) Thomas Nast<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.) “Red Water (Christmas Mourning)” is a song by what gothic metal band? The “caganer,” a guy with his pants down defecating on the ground, is a popular addition to Nativity scenes in what country? A) Serbia B) Spain C) Slovenia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16823,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810\/revisions\/16823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}