Judging from the replies I received, there are lots of other Only Connect fans out there. Maybe next year I’ll create a wall?

Congratulations to so many of you who got all the answers correct – more I think than for any previous quiz. Once again, £200 is on its way to SOFII.

And a big congratulations to Craig from Macmillan Cancer Support who was the first drawn at random and wins £50 to donate to whichever charity he chooses.

And thank you too to those who made me laugh. I particularly liked one person who thought they were all acronyms that their programs team use.

So now it’s time to put you all out of your misery. The answers are:

1. Last Christmas by Wham! There’s a campaign to make this the UK Christmas no. 1 in the year George Michael died – making up fort the fact that it was kept off the no. 1 spot by song no 8 below when it first came out
2. Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and the much missed Kirsty MacColl – released 30 years ago this year (how old do you feel now?)
3. I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas by Bing Crosby – the world’s biggest selling single
4. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, the opening line of The Christmas Song
5. Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow which I had to put in as it reminds me of my holiday this year. We were in Mexico in August and this was played in a restaurant where we were eating – surreal!
6. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Of course!
7. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, or I allowed those of us on the UK to enter with I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus
8. Feed the World, the refrain from Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?
9. All I Want For Christmas is You. Cheesy…? Yes. Brilliant…? Yes!
10. Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum, from The Little Drummer Boy. Did you know that this was first recorded by the Trapp Family Singers who were the inspiration for The Sound of Music?
11. All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth. Sorry. Enough said!
12. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday by Wizzard
13. Merry Xmas Everybody. Just brilliant, from Slade
14. Frosty the Snowman
15. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams
16. Santa Baby, first sung by Eartha Kitt

I really hope you enjoyed the quiz this year. I’m already thinking about next year’s!

All that remains is for me to wish you a very

MR RYC HR ST MS and a HPP YNW YR

Roger

It’s that time of year again. Christmas is just a few weeks away so it’s time for a good quiz.

This year’s quiz is my way of paying my respect to my favourite TV quiz – Only Connect. For those of you who don’t know it, the last round is the ‘Missing Vowels Round’ where the vowels are taken out of well-known phrases and spaces are added in random places. Your task is to identify the phrase.

In this case, all the phrases are Christmas song titles, or famous lines from Christmas songs. So, as an example:

SM PLYH VNGW NDR FLC HR STMS TM

Would be ‘Simply having a wonderful Christmastime’ by Paul McCartney.

So over to you. Regular players of my quiz will recognise a few of my favourites in here, but there are a few new ones too.

Have fun!

Happy Christmas

When you’ve got as many as you can, please email me your list. For every entry I receive I will donate £2 to the wonderful SOFII.

And, at midday on Tuesday December 19th, one of the people who get the most right will be selected at random and given £50 to donate to a charity that they choose.

Good luck, and have fun!

Roger

P.S. If you want to know the answers I will post them before Christmas – be sure to sign up to make sure you get them.

* I have chosen SOFII again this year as they provide an invaluable resource to all us fundraisers. Our job is to inspire donors and SOFII makes this a little easier for all of us. Much as I love them, I need to limit my donation to them to £200, but please do enter to make sure we get there.