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Hristmas Arols
Below are ten clues, each of which relates to the first line of a different Christmas carol or song. Unlike the title of the teaser, these clues only have the first letters of each of the words.
Can you figure out what songs they are?
1. CROAOF
2. IDOAWC
3. RTRNRHAVSN
4. GGROBAR
5. IHABCWY
6. ISMKSC
7. OTFDOCMTLGTM
8. FTSWAJHS
9. IBMBOJHSSOM
10. JBJBJBR
Can you figure out what songs they are?
1. CROAOF
2. IDOAWC
3. RTRNRHAVSN
4. GGROBAR
5. IHABCWY
6. ISMKSC
7. OTFDOCMTLGTM
8. FTSWAJHS
9. IBMBOJHSSOM
10. JBJBJBR
Answer
1. A Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)2. White Christmas (I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...)
3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose...)
4. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Grandma got run over by a reindeer...)
5. Blue Christmas (I'll have a blue Christmas without you...)
6. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus...)
7. The 12 Days of Christmas (On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...)
8. Frosty, the Snowman (Frosty, the snowman, was a jolly, happy soul...)
9. I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas (I broke my bat on Johnny's head, somebody snitched on me...)
10. Jingle Bell Rock (Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock...)
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I really loved your teaser it was a lot of fun. I didn't get it at first, but I never do
Aug 15, 2005
I don't know most of those songs...
Nice one
TWAGT. IEI. That was a good teaser. I enjoyed it.
nice 1 really hard though
Great teaser, there were 2 of us looking at it, and still only got 4 of them. One thing though, on rudolph the red nosed reindeer, the first line is "Well there's Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen.." Most folks forget about the intro though. lol.
phrebh, fun teaser!
I think lillith is incorrect, the book I have does not show that line.
but you are missing the correct first line from "i'm getting nothing for Christmas" It starts out "I broke my bat on Johnny's head..somebody snitched on me"
Love the teaser.
I think lillith is incorrect, the book I have does not show that line.
but you are missing the correct first line from "i'm getting nothing for Christmas" It starts out "I broke my bat on Johnny's head..somebody snitched on me"
Love the teaser.
How did you know I,m already humming carols (This happens in mid January for me) Thanks for the awesome teaser.
I didn't know most of the songs, but I got a few of them!!!
Almost got it all the Christmass carol....i missed one!!!!!
really fun, and lillith is right the intro is "well there's dasher and dancer, prancer and vixen, comet and cupid, donner and blitzen, but do you recall...the most famous reindeer of all..."
Great teaser! I absolutely love Christmas carols and Christmas time!
i just got one of them but still loved the teaser!!!
HUH??? i would have never guessed that......hhhhmmmm maybe..... ....but i liked it cuz it got me confused
Heehee, awsome teaser, i love to sing Christmas carols. What got me a bit stumped was the fact that we sing them in romanian, so i had to guess many of them. Still loved it, keep them coming.
cool teaser I got half of them
Phrebh is my favorite teaser. Another superb one to try and figure out. You've got me feeling all Christmassy now. Keep em coming.
Real hard... but really cool, I love it
Never heard of IGNFCMADAM. Oh well. Nice one though.
Less than three months til Christmas and this puts me in the mood! Thanks. Got them all by 1 & 9, and should have had those. Great job!
Loved this one! It's early morning for me and my brain was very slow kicking in!
Awesome teaser! Pretty easy, but def got me in the Christmas spirit Can't wait for the holidays!
Great job! I was suprised that I couldn't get a lot of these in the short time I allowed myself. I was even more suprised that I never even heard of one of them before (Number 9).
I got 10 right away, and then 7. After that I was stuck. It's cool how this teaser put music in my head ... happy holiday music!
Very good teaser! Gets ya into the holiday spirit
Sep 26, 2005
made me think this morning....loved it!
I'm waiting for that schmattazz lamahumpa. What kinda sass has he got today?
It was easy to me cuz of the title. ALthough i diidnt get all of them i got most of them. I really loved it.
ST. IWGAILI. Sweet teaser. It was good and I liked it.
Ahhh the warmth of Christmas carols....the family around the glowing hearth singing Grandma got run over....brings a tear to your eye don't it?
i got all but one only after reading the last one JBJBJBR gave it away to me
great teaser
I have never heard of songs 4 and 9 . but I got all the other ones Good thinking on your part to come up with that kind of a teaser That will be in my favorite vault so I can ask my kids at XMAS. Thank you
ONLY THREE MORE MONTHS TILL CHRISTMAS !!!! YYEEAAA!!!
Well, this certainly got me in the Christmas Spirit !!! THANKS!!
Well, this certainly got me in the Christmas Spirit !!! THANKS!!
i loved it!!!!! i absolutlu love chtistmas and have already started listening to christmas music! this christmas will be extra special cause my sister has been studying in egypt for 7 months and shes coming home dec 23rd!!! so anyways i only got 2 tho... i just am not good at thinking of things even tho i knew all the songs... great teaser!!
I don't know many Christmas songs, but I was able to decipher at least three.
I made it
I made it
that is soo good!!
I loved it!!
I loved it!!
Loved it thanks. My favorite was the jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock.......
Got all but 8 and 9...just didn't think of Frosty and didn't know the other..very good teaser..fun fun fun
I flunked. Got 50%... that's an F. Guess I'm going to get kicked out of Christmas 101! In my defense, there are a couple I'd never heard of, but regardless, there were some that I should have gotten for sure! The ones I did get right jumped right out at me... Anyway, good job... Feliz Navidad, everyone! Yeah, a little early, but the heck?
good grief! are we already doing christmas songs... I mean it isn't even halloween yet!
OMG, that was THE cutest thing EVER! Loved it, even though I didn't get ANY of them! Definitely going in my favorites! Thank you for this great teaser. God Bless!
That was an AWESOME teaser!!! I didn't get some of them, but...oh, well... This one is going in my favorites!!
very good teaser,,,i got all but blue christmas,,i remember the song but not the first line but that was great
I enjoyed it but..........
It was fun!! but 4 me, a bit hard.. lol cuz I don't know many christmas carols.. but I really enjoyed it!!
Cute one! Hey, where's the snow??
Brilliant!
My only complain is that you've gotten the songs stuck in my head
My only complain is that you've gotten the songs stuck in my head
Good teaser (even though I never heard of most of the songs). I got three of them!!!
That was really fun. I didn't know a few of them though
Good one
Enjoyed it - but must be old fashioned, as I don't think of any of those as carols - Christmas songs, yes but not carols ( an example of a carol would be SNHNAWCAWB). Got half of them - and hadn't heard of a couple, but stil had a lot of fun. Thanks.
BAH HUMBUG! (That's Chinese for "I only got about half of them")
Good one, though, PHREBH. Going in to my favorites for the kids at Christmas! Thanks!
Good one, though, PHREBH. Going in to my favorites for the kids at Christmas! Thanks!
Didn't get any, but like Nstock, I was trying to fit traditional Christmas Carols (Silent Night, Away in a Manger, etc) to the letters and wasn't thinking about Christmas songs. In my book that makes this a good teaser. Any teaser that makes me "think" is a good teaser.
Liked it. Got the last one first, and then the rest Wish it was closer to Christmas.
Thanks, all!
I also want to note that a carol is a song that may be sung while caroling, not a song with religious undertones.
I also want to note that a carol is a song that may be sung while caroling, not a song with religious undertones.
I must be getting a little bit older now... two of these I didn't recognize. But, this is a totally Awesome teaser. The songs are mostly older ones, but the new ones can be hard to keep up with. Keep up the superb work.
Good one! Although I only got 6, I'm in trhe spirit.. DTHWBOHFLLLLLLLL
Sep 27, 2006
Very good. I only caught 2 or 3 of them. Although I wouldn't consider #4 a carol per se. I mean would you really want to stand in front of someone's house and sing that? And I had completely forgotten about #9. Haven't heard that one in like 15 years. heh.
People caught the Rudolph one, but noone caught the White Christmas one. The into to White Christmas is:
The sun is shining, the grass is green; The orange and palm trees sway. There's never been such a day In Beverley Hills, L. A...
But it's December the twenty-fourth.. And I am longing to be up north...
People caught the Rudolph one, but noone caught the White Christmas one. The into to White Christmas is:
The sun is shining, the grass is green; The orange and palm trees sway. There's never been such a day In Beverley Hills, L. A...
But it's December the twenty-fourth.. And I am longing to be up north...
cute!!
Rudolph starts with the lyrics as given, and always has. The spoken word intro in the 1960's TV classic is not part of the song, even if it is sing-song.
And, yes, originally White Christmas was written with an opening verse, but Berlin dropped it. The verse was not included in either "Holiday Inn" or "White Christmas" nor was it in the two original recordings (the original 1942 master degraded so much that they had to rerecord it in 1947). It may have been included when Crosby introduced the song to the public on his radio show, The Kraft Music Hall, but since no recordings of that survive, it's hard to tell.
And, yes, originally White Christmas was written with an opening verse, but Berlin dropped it. The verse was not included in either "Holiday Inn" or "White Christmas" nor was it in the two original recordings (the original 1942 master degraded so much that they had to rerecord it in 1947). It may have been included when Crosby introduced the song to the public on his radio show, The Kraft Music Hall, but since no recordings of that survive, it's hard to tell.
I only got a few of them. I was looking for more traditional Christmas carols. But then, I do love Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer!
I was singing every song I could think of to try and make them fit: Silent Night, Deck the Halls, We Three Kings, O Come All Ye Faithful, etc. Man this one was hard.
I really enjoyed this teaser!
I was singing every song I could think of to try and make them fit: Silent Night, Deck the Halls, We Three Kings, O Come All Ye Faithful, etc. Man this one was hard.
I really enjoyed this teaser!
... and now, thanks to YU ...
IDOAWC!!!
IDOAWC!!!
Very fun, but why didn't you wait to submit this for Xmas season? Also, never heard of the song "I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas".
Greatly enjoyed it! I only solved 4 but it really got me thinking!
I, too, have never heard of number 9 and I was also looking for ones I would know right away (Deck The Halls, Silent Night, etc.)
Good job!!!
I, too, have never heard of number 9 and I was also looking for ones I would know right away (Deck The Halls, Silent Night, etc.)
Good job!!!
This was awesome! I only got 3 but it was sooo clever.
Never heard of #9. Good one though.
that was a lot of fun, but really hard
Good one though
Good one though
I never heard of #4 or #9--still, I loved this teaser!
I didn't catch on at first. When I did I really enjoyed trying to solve.Good One.
This was fun, though chosen as teaser of the day WAY too early, and I'm with Rach_ ... I'm not entirely happy that the songs are now stuck in my head...
At least I got em all! I guess I'm a certified Christmas song-singing freak. My family has a long-standing Christmastime tradition of a Christmas Carol singalong (and yes, I would consider all of these caroley enough to qualify!)
At least I got em all! I guess I'm a certified Christmas song-singing freak. My family has a long-standing Christmastime tradition of a Christmas Carol singalong (and yes, I would consider all of these caroley enough to qualify!)
Technically, I missed 4. I A Christmas Song and didn't catch the Chestnuts bit anyway. I don't know how I missed "Blue Christmas". I thought Elvis Presley did it beautifully. but two of them were just crass abominations. They're not Christmas songs or carols just crude jokes by crude immature minds. I had never heard of one of them before. It's embarassing to have other cultures think this is part of the U. S. idea of Christmas.
Having said that, we value free speech and these songs have entered common usage apparently.
I love the style of the brainteaser and hope to see more use of this technique. Poetry, famous literature?Thanks Phrebh for a clever teaser.
Having said that, we value free speech and these songs have entered common usage apparently.
I love the style of the brainteaser and hope to see more use of this technique. Poetry, famous literature?Thanks Phrebh for a clever teaser.
MY MOTHER'S COPY OF WHITE CHRISTMAS HAS THE INTRO, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHO SINGS IT. (IT'S AN OLD 78 RPM
Ho! Ho! Ho! Good one Phrebh. I loved it! Was hard for me too as I was going over the traditional ones, that is what made it so much fun. And as for immature minds and the world thinking we are low grade, I bet there isn't much joy, or maybe I should say laughter in that home. People all over the world have humor. Where is yours? My Lord has a sense of humor! More please, Phrebh.
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Good Teaser, but how did it get to be teaser of the day? I would save Christmas teasers until December.
Yes, it's a little early for Christmas songs, but good teaser, I missed "Frosty" and I never heard of #9.
Missed Grandma and I'm Gettin' Nothing for Christmas...very fun! Thanks!
I only got 5 or 6 and they were hard. Now I'll have Christmas songs in my head all day. Really fun teaser, difficult but fun.
Interesting and Fun! Snowman is one word, though!
A lot of people making corrections. I had a struggle with it as I was looking for more of traditional Christmas song. Like Silent Night. We Three Kings, Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem, etc and did not see any of them so gave up.
I don't do Christmas in Sept. I'll come back to this one in a few months.
Good teaser. Got them all. lillith is right thought. Rudolph starts with "you know dasher and dancer and prancer and vixen....." Still fun though!
Fun teaser, didn't get them all missed one I don't remember at all.
There are a few issues with some of the lyrics and it is called. " THE Christmas Song" (not A Christmas Song). That, and the fact these are songs not Carols (carols are the more relgious based songs).
And I am with those who think it is a bit early for a Christmas themed quiz. Even though I have finished shopping and wrapping all my gifts, I still do not want Christmas shoved down my throat quite yet. Let's get through Thanksgiving and Halloween first (or Halloween and Thankgiving if you are in the States).
And I am with those who think it is a bit early for a Christmas themed quiz. Even though I have finished shopping and wrapping all my gifts, I still do not want Christmas shoved down my throat quite yet. Let's get through Thanksgiving and Halloween first (or Halloween and Thankgiving if you are in the States).
These are not Christmas Carols ... they are Christmas Songs ... and whether you like the idea or not there are still a lot of us Christians out here who would like to be represented when you're celebrating a holiday (HOLY DAY) that is supposed to be all about the coming to earth of our God!
I guess number 9 was more of a regional novelty hit somewhere as I'd never really heard it before. It actually took a few re-reads to grasp just what the task at hand was supposed to be.
I got a few...but I'm not too enthused about Christmas Carols in September.
I should've gotten more than I did, but, like the poster before me, I'm just not feeling in the Christmas spirit yet. Too soon, Braingle, too soon!!
Wow, now that I look at the comments, it seems this one is always coming up in September. Change the cycle!
Wow this was tough! I got nine of them, but really had to work at it. I considered that "someone snitched on me" song, but I never would have come up with the first line from it.
I had a great time struggling with this teaser, even in September. Maybe it was more fun now when I had to dredge my memory without having these songs pervading radio, elevator, and supermarket sound systems every minute during the season.
I had a great time struggling with this teaser, even in September. Maybe it was more fun now when I had to dredge my memory without having these songs pervading radio, elevator, and supermarket sound systems every minute during the season.
Firstly, these Christmas SONGS are not too well known down-under!
I was only able to solve about half of them; never heard of the rest.
Had they been Christmas CAROLS as claimed, my results might have been different.
Please do not confuse the 2, this is an offense to many Christians who observe the true meaning of Christmas!
Thank You!
I was only able to solve about half of them; never heard of the rest.
Had they been Christmas CAROLS as claimed, my results might have been different.
Please do not confuse the 2, this is an offense to many Christians who observe the true meaning of Christmas!
Thank You!
9/10 A; fun and entertaining teaser. Missed #9 "Nothin' for Christmas". Enjoyed the quiz.
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