Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Carols By Another Name

Today has been about trying to wrap up Christmas shopping and getting outside to enjoy great above-average temperatures. 

While I'm out and about, here's a Christmas quiz. I've given you a list of alternate titles for well-known carols. How many of the correct names can you figure out? (Answers at the bottom, but no peeking allowed!)

  1. Yonder in a Hay Rack
  2. I Spied My Maternal Parent Osculating
  3. Cherubim Audited from Aloft
  4. Assemble, All Ye Who Believe
  5. Dozen 24 Hour Yuletide Periods
  6. Befell During the Transparent Bewitching Hour
  7. Hallowed Post Twilight
  8. Adorn the Vestibule
  9. Desire Only a Pair of Incisors on December 25th
  10. Minuscule Hamlet in the near East
  11. Eight P.M. until Six A.M. without Noise
  12. Shiny Tintinnabulations
  13. Exuberance Directed to the Planet
  14. Homosapien of Crystallized Vapor
  15. Ancient Benevolent Despot
  16. Quadruped with Crimson Proboscis
  17. Listen, Aerial Spirits Are Announcing
  18. Fantasia of a Colorless December 25th
  19. Perambulating Through a December Solstice Fantasy
  20. Trio of Monarchs

Answers..........


  1. Away in a Manger
  2. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
  3. Angels We Have Heard on High
  4. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
  5. The 12 Days of Christmas
  6. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  7. O Holy Night
  8. Deck the Halls
  9. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
  10. O Little Town of Bethlehem
  11. Silent Night
  12. Silver Bells
  13. Joy to the World
  14. Frosty the Snowman
  15. Good King Wenceslaus
  16. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  17. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
  18. I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
  19. Walking in a Winter Wonderland
  20. We Three Kings

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