Question: What chapter from Kenneth Grahame's 1908 book The Wind in the Willows lent its' name to the 1967 debut album from Pink Floyd?
Answer: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Question: What 1963 Alfred Hitchcock movie, which introduced the ever so talented Tippi Hedren, took place at the lovely Northern California town of Bodega Bay?
Answer: The Birds

Question: According to the tongue twister, who picked a peck of pickled peppers?
Answer: Peter Piper

Question: Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Charlie Watts, Buddy Rich, Phil Collins and Karen Carpenter are all what type of musician?
Answer: Drummers

Question: The male is a cob, the female a pen, & the young a cygnet: which bird are we talking about?
Answer: Swans

Question: Who memorialized a battle of the Crimean War in his 1854 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Question: What radio station do you find at 950 on your local AM dial?
Answer: Kjr

Question: Awarded to a ‘person, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that “for better or for worse, …has done the most to influence the events of the year”,’ who did Time magazine name their person of the year this morning?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg

Question: Stop, drop, and roll was drilled in your head in elementary school if you ever caught on fire. What did they expect you to do in the case of a nuclear attack?
Answer: Duck and Cover

Question: “I’ve got to go, Rock. It’s all right. I’m not afraid. Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, ask them to go in there with all they’ve got and win just one for ” whom?
Answer: The Gipper

Question: According to the classic 12 Days of Christmas song, what group were there 11 of?
Answer: Pipers Piping

Question: For a point each, name the 5 countries that share a border with the nation that declared war on the United States on December 13, 1941: Romania
Answer: Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, and Bulgaria

Question: Dec 13, 1953 saw the birth of Ben Bernanke, Harvard grad with a PhD from MIT. What governmental position does he hold?
Answer: Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve

Question: According to PNC Wealth Management, what is the cost, rounded to the nearest $1000, of purchasing the items in the 12 days of Christmas this year?
Answer: 87,000

Question: Which Gilligans Island character had the unique ability to construct just about anything necessary to survive from coconuts and bamboo (including a way to recharge batteries), but couldn't be arsed to fix a 2 foot hole in a boat?
Answer: The Professor

Question: Christmas Island, a territory of Australia, is located in what ocean?
Answer: Indian

Question: Yesterday saw the maiden flight of the new Boeing Dreamliner. What model number is it given?
Answer: 787

Question: Arch enemy of Count Dracula, what is the name of the vampire hunter in Bram Stokers 1897 novel Dracula?
Answer: Professor Abraham Van Helsing

Question: Ralph Wilson Stadium is home to what NFL team?
Answer: The Buffalo Bills

Question: Who was the first American to win a Nobel prize?
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt

Question: How the Grinch Stole Christmas was written by who?
Answer: Dr. Seuss

Question: If Misogyny is the hatred of women, what is the hatred of men?
Answer: misandry

Question: Dec 18, 1620 is the official landing date of the Mayflower. At what Massachusetts location did they make land?
Answer: Plymouth

Question: In the Transformer universe, who do the Autobots battle?
Answer: The Decepticons

Question: For a point each, name the 3 largest cities (by population) in Africa
Answer: Cairo, Egypt (14.8), Lagos, Nigeria (11.4), and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (8.6)

Question: For a point each, name the characters in the game of Clue
Answer: Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr.(Rev) Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum

Question: Name the only US president who has won the medal of honor.
Answer: Teddy Roosevelt

Question: Name the song and artist of this 2005 top ten hit: “I’m gonna sing those songs That offend the censors Gonna pop my pills from a pez dispenser I’ll get washed-up singers writing all my songs lip sync ’em every night so I don’t get ’em wrong”
Answer: Rockstar by Nickleback

Question: Dec 18, 2008 marked the death of Mark Felt. What prominent role in the watergate scandals did he play?
Answer: Deep Throat

Question: What is the name of the Christmas Poo, who emerges from the toilet bowl on Christmas Eve and brings presents to good boys and girls whose diets have been high in fiber, who appears on TVs South Park?
Answer: Mr Hankey

Question: What is the name of the King of Halloween Town who tries to take over Christmas in the Disney movie The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Answer: Jack Skellington

Question: Immortalized in an 1851 painting by Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze, which river did George Washington cross on Christmas night in 1776 before attacking the Hessian forces during the Battle of Trenton?
Answer: The Delaware

Question: What product is advertised with the slogan "When you care enough to send the very best?"
Answer: Hallmark

Question: The American ad writer Robert L. May introduced what popular Christmas character when he designed a new coloring book for Montgomery Ward in 1939?
Answer: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Question: In Tchaikovskys ballet The Nutcracker, who is the nutcrackers main enemy?
Answer: The Mouse King

Question: In the O. Henry story “The Gift of the Magi”, what did Della sell to buy a chain for her husband’s prized pocket watch?
Answer: Her hair

Question: December 20, 1860 saw which state secede from the Union, the first of 11?
Answer: South Carolina

Question: What cocktail consists of 1.5 oz Gin, .5oz Applejack, 4 dashes Grenadine, the juice of 1/2 Lemon, and 1 egg white?
Answer: Pink Lady

Question: In the classic 1990 movie Home Alone, where is the McCallister family headed on vacation when 8 year old Kevin is mistakenly left behind?
Answer: Paris

Question: What is the concern with Ralphie getting his "official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time in that classic 1983 movie A Christmas Story?
Answer: He'll shoot his eye out

Question: Whose ghost was the first to appear to Ebenezer Scrooge?
Answer: Jacob Marley

Question: What was the name of Scrooge's long suffering clerk in a Christmas Carol?
Answer: Bob Cratchit

Question: Olive the Other what is a Christmas book by Vivian Walsh and J Otto Seibold?
Answer: Reindeer

Question: Named for the day of its discovery by Captain William Mynors, Christmas Island, a land mass in the Indian Ocean, is a territory of what nation?
Answer: Australia

Question: December 22, 1864 saw General Sherman's March to the Sea end when he and his troops captured what port city?
Answer: Savanah, Ga

Question: Since a misprinted telephone number in 1958, NORAD, the joint US/Canadian organization that provides aerospace intrusion warning, among other actions, has spent no public money tracking what?
Answer: Santa Claus

Question: For a point each, name the 5 countries surrounding the place where Santa Klaus is both rumored to live and is known as Father Frost, Kazakhstan.
Answer: Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan

Question: Name the artist and title of this 1971 song that hit #3: "So this is christmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young"
Answer: John Lennon - Happy Xmas

Question: According to the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, what is given on the seventh day and what are they doing?
Answer: Seven swans a-swimming

Question: On January 16, 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded what former president a posthumous Medal of Honor, the only president to have received one?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt