The View From Lower Down

 Thanks, everyone, for signing up for the quiz! This year we have more teams than ever before, so competition will be fierce! To remind you all, the theme is Posters, meaning that I will give a brief description of a Christmas Movie poster and you have to guess which movie the poster refers to. In your signup automated reply, you should have received the following clue, worth 50 points: A man in a red cardigan looks at the camera in distress. He is surrounded by children dressed as biblical characters. Most people correctly guessed that this was 2009’s Nativity : This is the only occasion the actual poster will be included; if you want to check the accuracy of my descriptions for later entries, you will have to Google them yourselves. I will now reiterate the rules:   At 11:00 GMT every weekday AND Saturday (sorry; I forgot that I also created clues for Saturdays – blame me for writing the quiz in April) until 25 December, the clue will be emailed to you. You then have

Happy Christmas! I hope you are enjoying the quiz so far. This is everyone’s current scores (last updated 13:36 23 December): And the Winner is... - 170 points Angel - 2080 points Celtic Christmas Spirits - 0 points Coal and Carrot - 200 points Katzen gatti chats - 2300 points Looks Like Rain, Dear - 1650 points Merry Berry - 1510 points Raring to Snow - 2540 points Silent Knights - 1320 points Socks and Crocs - 710 points Teanbame - 1030 points The Three Wise Hippos -1880 points The Snow it Alls - 390 points Up to Snow Good - 2140 points Whelp There it is - 2130 points (Team names are in alphabetical order; scores change too often for me to manually reorder them) PEOPLE WHO KNOW ME IRL, I AM NOW WILLING TO SEND YOU A COPY OF MY 172 SLIDE POWERPOINT QUIZ

Want to join the quiz but can't think of a suitable team name? Common tricks employed are to use a Christmas based pun (for example, We Three Things), or to use a name associated with you in some way (I might use Lower Viewpoint). Of course, you can't use your real name, but nicknames are fine. If you're a fan of sharks (or Moore era Bond movies), you could combine both and call your team Santa Jaws! To remind you, the rules are: 1. No real names 2. No offensive language 3. Names must be four words or less Outside of those rules, pretty much anything goes, although I reserve the right to ask you to change it if I think it is inappropriate. Of course, you could go back through my posts and see what people have used in previous years, but for now, these are the teams that have signed up this year, including any points they already have (advance sign-up includes a bonus clue worth 50 points): Silent Knights - 50 points Looks Like Rain, Dear - 50 points Merry Berry - 0 points A