2009 Advent Calendar Quiz - Day 10

Hey All,

Amazing effort on last night’s quiz – thanks all! It will take me a bit to step through the submissions and figure out who won. It will be close as there were many nearly complete submissions!

Now, for some old business

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So, in response the Santa challenge, I have now received four photos. An oversight on my end was not mention that the photos were to be taken after the challenge was issued. So, three of the photos fall into this category in that they were taken this year, but not in advance of the challenge. The fourth, however, was a bonafide post-challenge shot. So, what to do?

After consulting with the quiz judging panel (a most difficult lot consisting of me, myself, and I), I have opted to do the following. Rob wins the challenge outright and gets three drinks because he sat on Santa’s lap following the challenge being issued. But, each of Chris F., Simon, and Alicia get a drink for getting in the Christmas spirit in 2009. Special note to Chris F., as he is posing with the original St. Nick, his inspiration for Santa Claus.

Alicia’s Bio:

· I am alicia and from Toronto and my friend Chris added me to this crazy challenge. A Toronto girl who hates the cold but lives here anyways.

· Love my high heals but hate winter boots so i make sure I travel lots to places with no snow.

· A bishops university and U of T grad. I am proud to be fishing with Santa.

· Happy holidays!

Simon’s Bio:

During some wacky adventures in New Zealand back in 04, Simon met Vern as he plunged 180 meters into Mokai Canyon, at 160 km/h in a death arm lock. During the days, Sven plies his trade at good old Vancity, where he helps to mold the minds of new employees and locks into Johari conversations with his internal clients. He also enjoys spending lots of time with Rotary, watching re-runs of South Park and trying to discover his youthful body through a rigorous workout schedule. No luck yet. He is proud that he was able to get one answer right, even if he had taken a picture with Santa during a very rowdy Christmas work party!

And now, for today’s question/challenge……

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Okay, so most of the time, I am trying to steer you all away from Google as it generally undermines my efforts to come up with a decent challenge. Today, I embrace Google! You see the advent quiz is what we call a 5420. That is to say, a search for “vern’s advent calendar quiz” yields 5400 hits (as pictured).

Your challenge today is to search for something else that returns as close to that many search results as possible. So, the search string that comes closest to 5420 wins for today. As the number of pages on the web changes every second, I will need a screenshot to show the number of hits, like the one shown attached with the string and the number of results. In the unlikely event of a tie, the first one in wins.