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Bingo Game #46: Christmas Trivia Bingo

So much to catch up on.


One word… Army.


If you pay attention the first time, you wouldn’t need to.


Yes!

Technically, since the Caller had the wrong answer to his own trivia question, and the player proved him wrong…. The player should be granted another bonus call!
Hey KJ, if I told you lately how much I love you you’re just may be something extra special under the Tsc zoom call Christmas tree for you on Friday
 
I'm sorry...yes, the character. And I'm asking for the company.
I won't answer for him , but it wasn't the company that made Rudolph. It was an individual who made it for his child.. and the company he worked for bought the rights and then when it went big they gave it back to the man and he became extremely wealthy by it......
 
Wow, the origin story of Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer! If you aren't familiar with it either, read below:



As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.



One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.



In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.



Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.



Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”
 
…. The player should be granted another bonus call!
The rule (written by a very wise and very rule-minded bingo wizard) says that the decisions of the current bingo wizard are final. So.....nope.
 
I'll make it official:

@BarberDave gave me the answer I was looking for (but it goes to show that I'm really playing this trivia game extra loose....I'm mean, it's supposed to be fun, people). So....if our Sonoran Compadre would like to select a bonus number (after carefully consulting his card and paying close attention the the winning pattern.....).....
You said it BTW , Not US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
After the writer read it at the company christmas party and fellow employees asked for copies..............
Yes, standard test-taking logic. Answer what they are asking, not what they should ask. If none of the answers are 100% correct, you pick the one that fits the question the best.
 
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Wow you folded like a cheap tent LOL
WARNING ADULT THEMED LINK!
That was on my card too , but in a non counting spot.... At least you made a call on my card.. Thank you, UNLIKE OUR BINGO WIZARD , who himself called himself MEAN.....
 
Yes, standard test-taking logic. Answer what they are asking, not what they should ask. If none of the answers are 100% correct, you pick the one that fits the question the best.
My Standard reply or answer to questions is almost always........
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I should have just used TMI trivia. At least that way no one could dispute the answers (to questions I WANT you to get correct... BTW). Bunch of pedantic know-it-alls.
 
Yes, standard test-taking logic. Answer what they are asking, not what they should ask. If none of the answers are 100% correct, you pick the one that fits the question the best.
I prefer to use critical thinking skills and write an essay. No since answering a question in a concise manner when you can write a book to explain it all!
 
The rule (written by a very wise and very rule-minded bingo wizard) says that the decisions of the current bingo wizard are final.
Indeed, so mote it be. But. the bingo wizard can also admit when they are wrong.....
 
I should have just used TMI trivia. At least that way no one could dispute the answers (to questions I WANT you to get correct... BTW). Bunch of pedantic know-it-alls.
Hey, I had just read the story about Rudolph's creation so that one was Easy...
 
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