By now, everyone is caught up in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season: shopping, baking, traveling… Whatever the time, writers still do what we do best. We write.
As writers, we are all about the words. If what we’ve penned is too hard or confusing to understand, our readers will by-pass us. The quiz below is a prime example of how we can over-write. Decipher the expanded Christmas carols and match them to their correct, more common titles.
Better yet, pour yourself a glass of eggnog and share the quiz with family and friends. I did NOT include the answers. If you want them, please email me.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
1. Oh, member of the round table with missing areas
2.
3. Vehicular homicide was committed on Dad's mom by a precipitous
4. Wanted in December: top forward
5. The apartment of two psychiatrists
6. The lad is a diminutive percussionist
7. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis
8. Decorate the entryways
9. Cup-shaped instruments fashioned of a whitish metallic element
10. Oh small
11. Far off in a haybin
12. We are Kong, Lear, and Nat Cole
13. Duodecimal enumeration of the passage of the yuletide season
14. Leave and broadcast from an elevation
15. Our fervent hope is that you thoroughly enjoy your yuletide season
16. Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully
17. As the guardians of the woolly animals protected their charges in the dark hours
18. I beheld a trio of nautical vessels moving in this direction
19. Jubilation to the entire terrestrial globe
20. Do you perceive the same vibrations which stimulate my auditory sense organ?
21. A joyful song of reverence relative to hollow metallic vessels which vibrate and bring forth a ringing sound when struck
22. Parent was observed osculating a red-coated unshaven teamster
23. May the Deity bestow an absence of fatigue to mild male humans
24. Rose-colored uncouth dolf is aware of the nature of precipitation, darling
MATCH TO THE TITLES BELOW.
a. All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
b. Away in a Manger
c. Carol of the Bells
d. Deck the Halls
e. Do You Hear What I Hear?
f. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
g. Go Tell It on the Mountain
h. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
i. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
j. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
k. I Saw Three Ships
l. Jingle
m. Joy to the World
n. Little Drummer Boy
o. Oh Holy Night
p. Oh Little Town of
q. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
r. Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night
s. Silent Night
t. Silver Bells
u. The Nutcracker Suite
v. The Twelve Days of Christmas
w. We Three Kings
x. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
