Saturday, December 22, 2007

HO HO HO!! CHRISTMAS SPECIAL QUIZ

Ho ho ho reminds me of a great joke I made with my blog partner during Maths class.
Here it goes-A santa goes to a boring neighborhood, amkes it one hell of a place, now everybody is happy.But one day Santa dies off cancer. If a movie is made on this, what will be its title??
answer in the next post! Till then enjoy our special Christmas edition!!!

1. It is an archaic term meaning "hoax", or "jest". While the term was first attested in 1751 in student slang, its etymology is unknown. In several East-Indian dialects, the word is borrowed from English, and used to mean "to deceive" or "to cheat". In Australian Aboriginal English, it means "to pester or annoy." Most of us know it due to something related to Christmas. What?

2. Who is the patron saint of students and children?

3. One of the legends behind this tradition, is that children used to open their money ________ to see the amount of money they had received over Christmas. What tradition?

4. He was created by Robert L May in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward. Character Arts, LLC manages the licensing for the ________ Company, L.P. which owns the story. Although the story and song have not passed into public domain, they have established themselves as folklore. Who and which story?

5. ______________ or olibanum (Arabic,لبٌان ,Lubban) is an aromatic resin obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia, particularly Boswellia sacra (syn. B. carteri, B. thurifera) (Burseraceae). It is used in incense as well as in perfumes. It is tapped from the very scraggly but hardy Boswellia tree through slashing the bark and allowing the exuded resins to bleed out and harden. Though, we know it for completely different reasons. What?

6. Which company is widely believed(falsely, though) to have popularised the present day image of Santa Claus, by giving him their colours?

Send in your answers ASAP to quizzerboys@yahoo.com
Thanks and a Merry Christmas!!!! Be a good person this year!
Enjoy the day.

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