Take the December quiz
The Columbus Dispatch - November 23, 2011 03:19 PM
The 12th month of the year arrives Thursday, so let’s have a December quiz. Here are five questions about the last month of the year. Find the answers below.
1. The word December comes from the Latin decem, meaning 10. Why does the 12th month of the year have a name meaning 10?
2. From this list choose the highest December temperature on record for Columbus.
3. Choose the lowest December temperature on record for Columbus
A. - 4
C. - 17
D. - 22
4. Here is the second verse of a well-known Christmas hymn. Name it:
Born a King on Bethlehem’s plain
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign
5. What do Sir Isaac Newton, Jimmy Buffet, Rod Serling and Sissy Spacek have in common?
6. What is supposed to happen on Dec. 12, 2012?
1. The names of our months were derived from early Roman calendars in which March was the first month and December the 10th. The period between December and March was not assigned to a month until a later reform split it into January and February.
2. The highest temperature for the month is 76, recorded on Dec. 3, 1982.
3. The lowest temperature is – 17, recorded on Dec. 22, 1941.
4. It’s the second verse of We Three Kings .
5. They were all born on Dec. 25.
6. On 12/12/12, the world will end, according to some discredited but widely circulated interpretations of the Mayan calendar.