To: Frederick Testa, FSW, OCSE, Hall of Records
From: David H. Weiner, President, CWA Local 1081
Date: November 16, 2008
Re: 188th CWA Local 1081 Email Trivia Contest Winner
Congratulations, you are last week's CWA Local 1081 Trivia Contest winner. Please contact CWA Local 1081 Secretary Treasurer Vera Winns at (973) 623-1081, or preferably by E-mail at vwinns@oel.state.nj.us, to collect your $50.00 prize. You were the first to correctly answer all of the following questions:
1. The name November means ninth month in Latin. True or false?
Answer: True. November was the ninth month until two months were added to the beginning of the year by the Romans.
2. For whom did the Roman senate want to name the eleventh month?
Answer: Tiberius. Tiberius refused the honor, saying what would happen if there were a thirteenth emperor
3. November the fifth is a special day in England. What day is it?
Answer: Guy Fawkes Day. In November 1605 Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby, and others conspired to blow up House of Lords. They were discovered before they could do so. Now on every November the Fifth bonfires with a guy on top are lit, and fireworks are set off. Guy Fawkes Day is also known as Bonfire Night.
4. What event is commemorated on November 11 in Australia, Britain, Canada and in the USA?
Answer: Signing of the Armistice to end World War I. Originally called Armistice Day, it is now known as Remembrance Day in Australia, Britain and Canada, and New Zealand, and Veteran's Day in the USA. The Armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
5. What is the missing word in this quote from what poem written by whom?
"November sky is chill and ----,
November leaf is red and sear"?
Answer: Drear. Marmion. Sir Walter Scott.