Sunday Quiz 19th December HO HO HO!

[WriterNick]

Hello my fellow tort lovers, this weeks quiz has a special theme: can you guess what it might be?
The first ten questions are all lines from Christmas carols - simply name the carol :?:

1) Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, Fa la la la la
Deck The Halls

2) The playing of the merry organ, sweet singing of the choir
The Holly And The Ivy

3) Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying sealed in the stone-cold tomb
We Three Kings

4) In fields where they lay keeping their sheep on a cold winter's night that was so deep
The First Noel

5) The cattle are lowing the baby awakes
Away In A Manger

6) Glories stream from heaven afar, Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Silent Night

7) With the poor and mean and lowly, lived on Earth our saviour Holy
Once In Royal David's City

8) Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel
O Come, O Come Emanuel

9) O sing choirs of angels, sing in exultation
O Come All Ye Faithful

10) When a poor man came in sight, Gath'ring winter fuel
Good King Wenceslas

Next are a few stills from classic Christmas films - name them!:

11) http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy166/nickhollanduk/quiz19/elf_d95-18f.jpg
Elf

12) http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy166/nickhollanduk/quiz19/miracle.jpg
Miracle On 34th Street

13) http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy166/nickhollanduk/quiz19/muppet-christmas-carol-w-we.jpg
A Muppet Christmas Carol

14) http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy166/nickhollanduk/quiz19/its-a-wonderful-life-title.jpg
It's A Wonderful Life

Lets have a few themed questions:

15) In what language do they say 'Joyeux Noel'?
French

16) The last chapter of the short story collection 'The Dubliners' was a brilliantly gloomy Christmas tale called 'The Dead'. Which Irish writer wrote it?
James Joyce

17) In what country does a character called Babushka deliver Christmas presents?
Russia

18) Christina Rosetti was a poet and sister of celebrated artist Dante Gabriel Rosetti. But what lovely yet bleak Christmas Carol did she write?
In The Bleak Midwinter

Who sang these Christmas number ones and what year? (so that's 2 possible points for each question)

19) Mull of Kintyre
Wings - 1977 (Paul McCartney will do)

20) Lonely This Christmas
Mud - 1974

21) Don't you want me baby?
The Human League - 1981

22) Stay Another Day
East17 - 1994

23) A Moment Like This
Leona Lewis - 2006 (although I will also accept Kelly Clarkson who apparently did the original)

24) Saviour's Day
Cliff Richard - 1990

25) Mr Blobby (go on - you can guess at this one!)
Mr Blobby (you can have a point for Edmonds his evil puppet master) - 1993

And finally - we can all name Santas reindeers (Rudolph, Dasher, Donner, Blitzen, Prancey, er Chilli, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub) but owing to the backlog caused by the snow Santa has hired two new helpers to help him out this year :-o Can you name them for a point each?

http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy166/nickhollanduk/quiz19/lilyxmas.jpg
Lily Lewin

http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy166/nickhollanduk/quiz19/marlyxmas.jpg
Marly
Santa will think you have been extra good if you enter the quiz so good luck! Have a wonderful, wonderful festive season and I hope that you pull a cracker :-P

[EquestrianBabe]

It's Rudolph, Vixen, Prancer, Olive, Donner, Dasher, Dancer, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid :) Am starting now :)

[Alan1]

It's Rudolph, Vixen, Prancer, Olive, Donner, Dasher, Dancer, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid :) Am starting now :)

I think you have been skim reading EB :D

well I have done it but not managed to get many. in fact I see I have even given a trick answer to number 7 :lol:

[purplelynn]

:lol:Done mine !:lol:

[ME SHELL]

my answers are in too, tho the first few questions were sent in separetly for some reason :lol:

[WriterNick]

There are some really good answers in so far so keep them coming! And Shell you can send in a third part as well if you want to guess what year the Christmas number one songs are from - there is a point for that as well! :-)

[loublou95]

My answers are in :)

[WriterNick]

Some great answers in so far! But I have now discovered that two singers sang one of the songs on my list, so as it's a time of goodwill to all tortoises, you can have a point for naming either of the singers :-)
The quiz deadline is 10 tonight as I'm watching the Apprentice final!
Good luck! :-)

[Alan1]

I will tune in later or tomorrow - my eyes have gone all fuzzy again :roll:

[WriterNick]

Well done to all of you who entered - you all came up with some great answers and you all had a cracker!
The standard was extremely high with some excellent scoring all round but here are this year's festive results:
1st - VICKY12
2nd - EQUESTRIAN BABE
3rd- PURPLELYNN

also doing well and gaining a place in Santa's good books for taking part were:

4th - Pussygalore
5th - Loublou95
6th - MeShell
7th - Caledonia
8th - HelenM
9th - Marly

Thanks for taking part and as they say in France (and Switzerland too) 'Joyeux Noel'!
:-)

[TortBabe]

Wow EB will be thrilled :mrgreen:

[Alan1]

8) O Come, O Come Emanuel


I saw some of the Emanuel films in the 70's, can't remember that one but they were all much the same :wink:

:lol:

[EquestrianBabe]

Wow :) Congrats Vicky & congrats to the other contestants :p