Santa's Reindeer

Posted by Miss Cellania in Christmas on December 22, 2008 at 12:59 pm



Can you name all nine of Santa’s reindeer? Can you do it (and spell them correctly) in two minutes or less? That’s the challenge today in the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz! Yes, I know one of them has a controversial spelling, but you can find the one that works. I got them in 30 seconds, and I would’ve done better if I could type. Link

PS: Of course, we know Santa really has a whole herd of reindeer.


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13 comments to "Santa's Reindeer"

  1. frostbyte
    December 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Wow... I finally did good. Got them all in 10 seconds. I guess it pays to have a 2 year old!

  2. frostbyte
    December 22nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Oops... of course I meant that I did well.

  3. Patrick B
    December 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    I would have done better but I used the "Night Before Christmas" spelling.

    In the original english translation it is Donder not Donner.

    In the original Dutch it was even odder. It was Dunder and Blixem.

  4. emmakate
    December 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    I also tried "Donder" and then realized it wouldn't take it. It took me a minute and a half because I didn't realize I needed to type RUDOLPH!! I was thinking of the "Night Before Christmas" and Rudolph isn't in that.

  5. Casie
    December 22nd, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    7 seconds. Thanks Gene Autry.

  6. HollywoodBob
    December 22nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    I started typing before the clock started, so my 3 seconds doesn't count I'm sure. :-D

  7. Alasdair
    December 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    14 seconds... and I thought I did pretty well, until I see 10 and 7 and 3...

  8. fupalicious
    December 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    I'm with Casie... Gene Autry got me through this one.

  9. Rocky Rook
    December 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Fun quiz! Took me about a minute.

  10. ted
    December 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    Took me a minute, too. You have to remember that the one reindeer was in the Donner party.

  11. Xinavera
    December 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 pm

    It's Donder, not Donner. Donder and Blitzen=Thunder and Lightening. Donner is a bunch of unlucky pioneers.

    They also forgot Olive (the other reindeer) and (out with) Glee ;-)

  12. SenorMysterioso
    December 23rd, 2008 at 1:44 am

    donner slowed me down, thought it was donder or dunder

  13. m0le
    December 23rd, 2008 at 7:49 am

    The old German for Thunder was Donner. The change to Dunder for the poem was probably to bring it more in line with the English.

    And how many people were typing in "Blixem"? As that is the actual spelling used in the poem - very likely to help the awkward rhyme for "Vixen"

    Donner and Blitzen means thunder and lightning in German. Donder or Dunder is Dutch, lightning in Dutch is Bliksem so it was probably the German that was originally used before Moore, ahem, published it.

    Google: Charles Fenno Hoffman for more on the 7 year publishing gap.


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