1. Who said: “Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year“?
2. Name the poem and author of:
All this was a long time ago, I
remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth,
certainly . . .
3. Name the carol which starts: Not on a snowy night, by star and candle light, but on a summer’s day . . .
4. Who ordered the census which prompted Joseph & Mary’s journey to Bethlehem?
5.What were the first three gifts given in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas?
Homepaddock 
(1) dunno but it is a bleak worldview
(2) Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot and I’m sure this poem has appeared in a previous quiz
(3) don’t know that one
(4) According to the Gospel of Luke it was Caesar Augustus, according to Josephus it was the Roman Governor of Syria, Quirinius
(5) i A partridge in a pear tree
ii Two turtle doves
iii three colly birds
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I was right about number 2, here it appeared and was answered by 363 days ago.
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1. Don’t know
2. The Journey of the Magi, by T. S. Eliot
From memory, so the punctuation may not be right. Or the words, for that matter.
3. Te Harinui, which always sounds very like “Caro mio ben” to me.
4. Augustus Caesar
5. A pukeko in a punga tree, two kumera, and three flax kits.
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Ooops! That would be a ponga tree.
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1) I dunno, but looking down the questions I’m going to be short on answers so I’ll take a guess. Dave Barry?
2) No idea
3) We had to sing this at school, the next line is about angels (or the lack their of). But I can’t remember the name.
4) Since I can’t remember the name of Governor, I’ll go for the smart alec* answer. Joseph & Mary probably didn’t go to Bethlehem, since there was no tradition of having people register for a census at their home town. It’s likely the authors of the gospel picked a regional census which occurred a few years after the birth of Jesus as a hook on which to hang their story
5) 3 French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree,
*Yes, I couldn’t bring myself to almost swear on this blog. I don’t know what that says about me, or the blog, but there you go.
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1. Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard, in a speech urging NZers to save more.
2. The only one I really know – T S Elliot, Journey of the Magi.
3. No idea…but it reminds me of an English girlfriend I had once, who wanted the whole experience of having fresh strawberries on a beach on Christmas day…
4. Caesar Augustus, I think…
5. three french hens, two turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree…
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Not being religious there is a complete blank on all questions.
Was there a census ???. Have heard that there is no record of one.
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