Reindeer Games

Preamble:

With Christmas just 2 days away it was time to get Santa’s sleigh ready for the big night. A big part of the trip is Santa’s Reindeer. How do you train for an event? You make a game out of it. So with The Reindeer Games I ready for launch we gathered for the event.

Warm-O-Rama:

A short run to the “Big Lot” for

• SSH
• Weed Pickers
• Imperial Walkers

Time to get down to business.

The Thang:

What is the most important thing the reindeer do? Pull the sleigh, of course! Since we were a little short on snow YHC provided sleighs on wheels. The presents were Girlfriends (2 each sleigh) and one reindeer to pull.

So on the “Go” two sleighs with presents took off, faster than coursers they flew, in opposite directions around the first island in the parking lot and back.  The winning team took a mosey around the island. The losing team, 10 burpees.

While the race is going on the other PAX are cheering them on while performing exercises.

Here are the exercises performed during the races:

After the race and reward/punishment it was trivia time with the winners taking a lap. The losers, 10 burpees. We pulled numbers from a Santa hat to make it fair. 12 questions below:

The trivia questions were all about reindeer lore with Santa:

1) Which poem was the first publication to mention Santa’s reindeer?

CHRISTMAS BELLS

HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS

A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS

OLD SANTECLAUS WITH MUCH DELIGHT

“Old Santeclaus with Much Delight” is an anonymous illustrated children’s poem published in New York in 1821, predating by two years the first publication of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (“Twas the Night before Christmas”). It is the first publication to mention (and illustrate) Santa’s reindeer and sleigh, as well as being the first to describe his arrival on Christmas Eve.

2) Who was Rudolph’s love interest in the 1964 TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

MITZI, DONNA, CLARICE, FROST

Clarice, along with several other young does, watch the young bucks taking part in the Reindeer Games. When she tells Rudolph that she thinks he’s cute, he leaps in the air with joy.

3) Which reindeer was the first to be mentioned in Clement C. Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas”?

COMET, DASHER, CUPID, DANCER

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and call’d them by name:
“Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer and Vixen,
“On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;
“To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!
“Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”

4) Which department store created Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

MONTGOMERY WARD, DILLARD’S, J. C. PENNEY, MACY’S

Rudolph was created in 1939 by Robert L. May as an advertising gimmick for Montgomery Ward. The store distributed millions of coloring books featuring Rudolph between 1939 and 1944.

5) What magical vegetable allows Santa’s reindeer to fly?

CORN, POTATOES, CARROTS, TURNIPS

In the 1970 TV special Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, Santa’s friends use Winter’s last magical tool, his Magic Feed Corn, to make Santa’s reindeer friends fly, allowing them to help him escape from prison.

6) Which reindeer is part of Santa’s backup team?

PATCHES, SKIPPY, MONTEL, ALL OF THESE

In the South Park Christmas special “Red Sleigh Down” (2002), Santa’s sleigh is shot down over Iraq, killing the eight famous reindeer. The South Park crew go on to rescue him with Santa’s backup team: Steven, Fluffy, Horace, Chantel, Skippy, Rainbow, Patches and Montel.

7) Which of Santa’s reindeer is the fastest?

RUDOLPH, SHADRACK, DASHER, VIXEN

Loretta Lynn first released “Shadrack The Black Reindeer”, a Christmas single telling the tale of “the fastest reindeer,” in 1974. A couple Yuletides later, the song’s writer, Zero Jones, released his own take on the country tune.

8) Which mountains in Canada are named after the original 8 reindeer?

NORTH POLE MOUNTAINS

CHRISTMAS MOUNTAINS

ST. NICHOLAS MOUNTAINS

MERRY MOUNTAINS

The Christmas Mountains are a series of rounded peaks in northern New Brunswick, Canada, at the headwaters of North Pole Stream.

9) Who was Rudolph’s father in the 1964 TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

DASHER, BLITZEN, COMET, DONNER

The television special departed significantly from Robert L. May’s original story, depicting Rudolph as Donner’s son, who lived among Santa Claus’s reindeer from birth.

10) Which reindeer is introduced in the 2002 feature film The Santa Clause 2?

MAX, CHET, LLOYD, LEROY

Scott goes after the Toy Santa, who has already left with the sleigh, riding Chet, a reindeer-in-training, and they both crash back into the village.

11) What is the name of Rudolph’s son?

RICHIE, RANDY, RALPHIE, ROBBIE

Robbie the Reindeer is the son of Rudolph and a character in two BBC comedy specials.

12) Which reindeer is named after thunder?

DASHER, DONNER, BLITZEN, COMET

“Donner” is the German word for thunder.

Time ran out and with much disappointment it was time to head back to the flag