"Fa La La La La"
Chanukah
"Happy Holidays"
Christmas
S&T Potpourri
100
This popular website allows moviegoers to purchase tickets online to their favorite holiday shows in advance.
What is Fandango?
100
This is the number of nights that Chanukah is celebrated.
What is 8?
100
This is the "saint" on Ben's tie that is famous for distributing toys to impoverished children during Christmas time?
Who is St. Nicholas?
100
This is the number of days that Christmas is oft celebrated.
What is 12?
100
This is the number of Teracore staff on the S&T TechSHARE BTMS contract.
What is 9?
200
This adjective describes treating something that is serious deliberately flippantly.
What is facetious?
200
According to Internet researcher Joe Maller and Google, there are AT LEAST this many correct spellings of Chanukah in the English language.
What is 16?
200
This holiday was created by Dr. Maulana Karenga of California State University in 1966. It combines various “first fruit” harvest celebrations on a specific continent, resembling several different festivities celebrated by cultures such as the Ashanti and the Zulu.
What is Kwanzaa?
200
This century is first recorded date of Christmas being celebrated, during the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
What is the 4th century? * The first date Christmas was celebrated was December 25, 336 AD, 303 years after Christ's death.
200
This is the name of the regular communication that the S&T Undersecretary leverages to report out on information Directorate-wide.
What is the "Reggie Report?"
300
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines this as "belief in the existence of God."
What is faith?
300
This special nine-branched candelabrum has a candle lit from left to right each night of Chanukah, until the final night when the middle candle is lit.
What is a Menorah?
300
This holiday is celebrated in 160 countries throughout the world and commemorates the arrival of a Savior that was prophesied in Hebrew religious texts for over 3,000 years.
What is Christmas?
300
The Christmas story of Jesus' birth is recorded in the first four books of the New Testament of the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), which are also known as what?
What are the gospels? * Other acceptable answer: The Good News.
300
This is the total number of people who are a part of the S&T TechSHARE BTMS contract, including onsite, remote, and Client-site personnel.
What is 21?
400
This is a main line of the chorus to the Christmas song "Deck the Halls."
What is "Fa la la la la?"
400
According to global religious data, this is the number of millions of people it is believed that may celebrate Chanukah each year.
What is 14 million people?
400
This holiday commemorates the Maccabean Revolt when a people group rose up against Greco-Syrian oppressors in during the second century B.C. and celebrated by rededicating a temple thereafter.
What is Chanukah?
400
According to Pew Research Center, at least this percentage of non-Christians celebrate Christmas in the United States?
What is 81%?
400
These four divisions primarily comprise the First Responders Group.
What is CORE, NUSTL, OIC, and R-Tech?
500
This deep-fried ball or patty made from ground chickpeas is what Mahnaz and her husband Mark enjoyed after the Teracore Christmas party.
What is falafel?
500
This is the most common spelling of this holiday, used 250% more than "Chanukah" in 2014.
What is H-a-n-u-k-k-a-h?
500
This is the customary greeting for "Happy Holidays" in all Latin cultures and translates directly into "Happy Nativity."
What is Feliz Navidad?
500
This is the town in Judea where Jesus was born, the same town that the 3 Magi from the far east came to see "the Christ."
What is Bethlehem?
500
Phil Waters, Christine Lee, and Marc Caplan represent the three people who have served this specific role for our contracts at S&T over the duration of our program since it's inception.
What are our CORs?
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