Yesterday’s questions were:
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?
The answers follow the break:
1. P.J. O’Rouke.
2. Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot.
3. Te Harinui.
4. Caesear Augustus.
5. A partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves and three French hens – or three flax kits, two kumera and a pukeko in a ponga tree.
Points for answers:
Andrei, Deborah and Rob get an electronic boquet each.
Andrei got three with a bonus for added information and another for a very good memory – though it was a different bit from the same poem.
Deborah got four right.
David got one right a 1/2 because an angel band does appear later and a bonus for good argument (had this been a debate rather than a quiz that might have been a winning one) and another for restraint – I”m not sure what it says about you or the blog but I like it anyway.
Rob got three right a bonus for humour (and did the girlfriend get the strawberries & beach?).
Adam gets a: you don’t have to believe in something to know about it.
Homepaddock 
You know I damn nearly put P J O’Rourke for the first one. Damn.
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Q4 has got to be wrong, as there was obviously no census. What is the point of a census if people are made to return to their ancestral lands?
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LRO;
even if you take the whole thing to be mythological the answer stands,
But the census did happen as I pointed out in my rather pedantic answer.
See Josephus recorded it independently of the Gospel and also the resentment it caused. He believed it was the motivation to the formation of the Zealots who ultimately lead the revolt which bought about the destruction of the temple.
At least one of the apostles was a zealot Simon the Zealot and he became the second Bishop of Jerusalem after James Adelphotheos also know as James the Just.
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So true HP. But one must have at least a passing interest in the subject.
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” But one must have at least a passing interest in the subject.”
Not necessarily – I have no interest at all in Winston First and yet know far too much about him.
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I rest my case :-))
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