~ Even though I've seen The Christmas Story about 6000 times over the course of my lifetime, it turns out I have no idea where it actually takes place. (Indiana. Not in Ohio, which if you're keeping track, is where it was filmed.)
~ A Menorah is lit left to right - it often helps to have a Jewish person on the team for questions such as these. We're open to any and everything, but Hanukkah isn't something we learned much about in our Catholic schools.
~ Along those same lines, when discussing the number of days of Kwanzaa, it helps if the trivia master accidentally includes a graphic that shows the Kwanzaa candelabra called the Kinara holding 7 candles.
~ When given lines to classic Christmas songs, that aren't actually in the refrain, I get caught in an endless loop of singing those songs in my head; never really getting to the refrain that will help me answer the question.
~ A Poinsettia is also known as Noche Buena (The Goodnight Flower) and is also a very difficult word to spell under pressure. In these situations, always go with your first instinct. If not, you'll fail miserably - like we did.
~ Santa Claus is called Bappo Natale in Italy which is fairly logical leap since Merry Christmas in Italian is Buon Natale. That's not Santa's name in "Carribbean" like some unhelpful person on our team tried to argue.
~ When you're at Trivia in a bar and someone brings a sleeping baby in, it's quite difficult not to quote Reese Witherspoon in this scene:
~ For as big a Dr. Seuss fan as I am, I was clueless as to how big the Grinch's heart is (2 sizes too small as opposed to the 3 sizes it grew!) or which mountain the Grinch was hiding out on (Mt. Crumpit.) I did however know that he stole the stockings first and he met Cindy Lou Who. At least we weren't complete failures.
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