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Can you name the following Christmas Carols? The titles have been altered with the use of a Thesaurus. See how many you can get back to their original titles.


1. Move Hither the Entire Assembly of Those Who are Loyal to Their Belief.

2. Embellish Interior Passageways.

3. Vertically Challenged Adolescent Percussionist.

4. First Person Singular Experiencing an Hallucinatory Phenomenon of a Natal Celebration Devoid of Colour.

5. Soundless Nocturnal Period.

6. Majestic Triplet Referred to in the First Person Plural.

7. The Yuletide Occurrence Preceding all Others.

8. Precious Metals Musical Devices.

9. Omnipotent Supreme Being Elicit Respite to Ecstatic Distinguished Males.

10. Caribou with Vermillion Olfactory Appendage.

11. Allow Crystalline Formations to Descend.

12. Jovial Yuletide Desired for the Second Person Singular or Plural by the First Person Plural.

13. Commence Auditory Reception, The Announcing Cherubs Vocalize.

14. Kris Kringle Will Be Arriving in the City in the Not Too Distant Future.

15. Bipedal Travelling Through an Amazing Acreage During the Period Between December 21st and March 21st in the Northern Hemisphere.

16. Its Arrival Occurred at Twelve O'clock During a Clement Nocturnal Period.

17. Exclamatory Remark Concerning a Diminutive Municipality in Judea Southwest of Jerusalem.

Good Luck!!!

1. O Come All Ye Faithful
2. Deck The Halls
3. Little Drummer Boy
4. ??? (maybe I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas)
5. Silent Night
6. We Three Kings
7. The First Noel
8. Jingle Bells
9. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
10. Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer
11. ???
12. ???
13. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
14. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
15. Winter Wonderland
16. ???
17. O Little Town of Bethlehem

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Some people are like slinkies. They're really good for nothing but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

These are the ones I got in 2 min or less:

1. Move Hither the Entire Assembly of Those Who are Loyal to Their Belief.
Oh Come All Ye Faithful

2. Embellish Interior Passageways.
Deck The Halls

3. Vertically Challenged Adolescent Percussionist.
The Little Drummer Boy

4. First Person Singular Experiencing an Hallucinatory Phenomenon of a Natal Celebration Devoid of Colour.
Krantz and the Technicolor Velodrome

5. Soundless Nocturnal Period.
Silent Night

8. Precious Metals Musical Devices.
Silver Bells

10. Caribou with Vermillion Olfactory Appendage.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

11. Allow Crystalline Formations to Descend.
Let It Snow

13. Commence Auditory Reception, The Announcing Cherubs Vocalize.
Hark The Herald Angels Sing

14. Kris Kringle Will Be Arriving in the City in the Not Too Distant Future.
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

16. It came upon a midnight clear

17.Oh Little Town of Bethlehem

18. Boar’s Head Carol

19. Blue Christmas

20. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

12. We wish you a Merry Christmas

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No, no. You know who was right all along? The Mongolians. They knew that you just can't wall yourself off from the outside world. Putting walls up never helps anything. Tearing them down brings us together.
-Randy-South Park

Great job guys! Esp Norts. #12 was a tough one. Here's another....

Challenge #2
The word game DOUBLET was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland. The object of the game is to change a word into another word by successively changing only one letter at the time to form an intermediate valid word. For example, the following process changes the word TEN to JOY:

T E N
T O N
T O Y
J O Y
1. Using similar process, change the word

G I F T TO

L O V E

2. Using similar process, change a Christmas BELL to a Christmas STAR

B E L L TO

S T A R

Gift
Lift
Life
Live
Love


I'm an inspiration!

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Bell
Sell
Seal
Sear
Star

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Some people are like slinkies. They're really good for nothing but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

That was fast!!! Challenge#3
Following are 10 Christmas Trivia Questions.
Test your skill.

1) Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer made his first appearance in 1939, in a story that was written to:
A) Advertise a new brand of light-bulb
B) Be read on a Christmas radio broadcast
C) Entertain the author's sick daughter
D) Promote a department store
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2) After Scrooge has reformed his life at the end of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", he proposes getting together with Bob Cratchit for some "smoking bishop", which was:
A) A fast variation of chess popular in Victorian London
B) A premium pipe tobacco
C) A hot spiced drink
D) A Christmas pudding, soaked in brandy and set alight
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3) Most of us like to spend Christmas with our families, but sometimes we must be far away. Even then, most of us get to stay on the planet. Prior to the continuous occupation of the International Space Station in 2001, how many people actually spent Christmas Day in space?
A) None - mission planners have always worked around it
B) Just three - the Apollo-8 team
C) Twelve
D) Thirty-five
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4) In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning it is believed to mean:
A) Good luck
B) Misfortune will strike in the coming year
C) The winter will be unusually cold
D) Your house needs cleaning!
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5) America's official national Christmas tree is:
A) Displayed at the Rockefeller Center in New York
B) Brought from Canada and erected in Washington each year
C) Located in King's Canyon National Park in California
D) A Scotch pine
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6) A modern Christmas custom borrowed from ancient Rome's New Year's celebrations is:
A) Putting up mistletoe to make a "kissing bough"
B) Decorating a tree
C) Displaying a wreath on the front door of one's house
D) Hanging stockings by the fireplace
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7) The first instrument on which the carol "Silent Night" was played was:
A) A harp
B) A pipe organ
C) A guitar
D) A kazoo
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8 ) Good King Wenceslas was king of which country?
A) Abyssinia
B) England
C) Bohemia
D) Gondor
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9) The real St. Nicholas lived:
A) At the North Pole
B) On the island of Malta
C) In Turkey
D) In Holland
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10) Believe it or not, one Indiana town is called:
A) Christmasville
B) Wenceslas
C) Noel
D) Santa Claus

1. d
2. c
3. ?
4. a
5. b
6. ?
7. c
8. c
9. c
10. ?

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Some people are like slinkies. They're really good for nothing but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.