The Forum Games Pointless/PEEHS Advent Calendar 2022

Which means new leaders, as DvB and Shane leapfrog guiri

Music today. Fun fact: from 2006 to 2013, every Irish Christmas number one came from the winning contestant of that year's series of the British X Factor. So, of course...

Question 10: name one of these X Factor winners who had an Irish Christmas number one...

Double sheep for Leona Lewis and Matt Cardle, while Little Mix somehow ace

Sticking to the music theme today, and another pointless favourite, anagrams! Anagrams of Christmas carols to be precise. For example, JILL BEGS LEN would be Jingle Bells

Question 11: give one of the Christmas carols from the anagrams below...

COOKED ANGELS WINGS

WATCH FESTIVE DAMES SHORTLY

THE GREEKS WIN

EARTH SHAKING DANGER SHELL

BOOM TWENTIETH HOTEL FELL

COYLY SEND VICTORIAN AID

TED HACKS HELL

LINEN TIGHTS

No rush, still plenty of time 🙂

I think Silent Night and Deck the Halls were the easiest two, and they're a double sheep

Mary Black, Mary Lou McDonald, Mary-Kate Olsen, Mary Quant

Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Berry, Mary J. Blige, Mary McAleese

Again, all answers were given, but by how many people...?

And we have a new leader again

One hour warning for @HeidiHeidi

Big sheep for Joe Biden, and Joe Pesci is hot on his heels. Edser and Trigger pick up a couple of very nice aces. I suspect more people knew Joey Carbery, but Edser getting joseph Wiseman is very impressive.

According to an earlier Forum of Games game, the mostly Christmassy sweets are Quality Street, so a simple question today

Question 14: name a sweet in a tub of Quality Street

(I'll have to be strict on you getting the name right)

It's a very even spread of answers again today with the sheep only scoring 4, so even the incorrect or missed answers are only worth 6. It's a nice ace for Aisling with Orange Creme

I have no idea what that gif is 🤣

Today, we turn to TV, and Christmas specials

Question 15: name one of the TV series from the Christmas specials shown below...

The Office is a fairly large sheep, including our current leader, guiri

16 people then score 4 points!

Posy and Necro do best, with just 2 points each for Blackadder

As everyone loved it so much last time, let's have another geography question! Closer to home this time though, Irish counties...

Question 16: name one of the 32 counties which contains none of the letters in ELF.

So Dublin would be incorrect, as it has an L in it

There were 8 answers today. Unsurprisingly, you got them all between you

Antrim

Armagh

Cavan

Cork

Down

Mayo

Monaghan

Roscommon

BB holds on at the top with Barna moving into the joint lead, albeit without a lifeline left