A Fantastically Case-Themed Contest!

**Update: Contest has ended! Thanks to all who entered.**

OK, we've had enough deep, spiritual, probing discussions for, oh, maybe a couple years. Our quota has certainly been filled here at "Keeping Up with the Cases," so it's definitely high time for a fun and completely pointless post.

How about another contest?

Raechel did a Christmas contest around, well, you know, Christmastime, and besides holiday-themed questions, she also featured questions pertaining to Myers family life as recorded on the blog. (Just so you know, I won that contest and got a fabulous prize. And I also won this other contest of hers. I'm pretty much a Myers family blog devotee.) I think that's a spectacular idea, so I'm going to make my own little contest featuring Case family trivia questions.

And there will be a prize, and believe me, it's a good one. The winner will receive, via Amazon, his or her very own copy of Facing East, a book by Frederica Mathewes-Green, which I am currently reading. It's a fantastic introduction to Orthodoxy that is written in a personal, witty manner; in fact, she writes short chapters that correspond with events in the church calendar year, which make the book very enjoyable and approachable. Anyway, if you win, we'll send you copy of this book. It will probably be used, but hey, we're all about recycling here.

Now Lisa can attest to the fact that I'm not the fastest prize-mailer in the west. Or even in the galaxy. In fact, it took me a loooong time to get her prize to her for the Jack contest, so enter this at your own risk. Things take time. They really do. I usually have little monkey barnacles hanging to my legs, whining for juice or milk or hugs or food or somesuch silly demands, and then by the end of the day I think, "Shoot, I was supposed to do [x] for [so-and-so]. Dang. I'll just not write it down, magically remember it, and do it tomorrow."

I think we can all see how that usually goes down.

So, that being said, enter and count on the timely arrival of your prize at your own risk.

Rules are as follows: Whoever answers the most questions correctly (I determine the exact nature of "correctly"--former teacher, remember? So I'm pretty strict.) first wins. It's just that simple. You may use the blog archives to determine your answers, but I personally think Blogger arranges their archives in a very tricky, hard-to-find manner, so the longer you take to sift through the backlogs, the less chance you have of being first. No pressure or anything. The questions are pretty picky, so if you really have no idea for some of them, then please still answer and at least make some up to give me a laugh. Who knows? I might just get enough made-up entries to send out a second prize for the funniest entry. Plus the more people who enter, whatever their chances of winning may be, the more I'll feel like this blog is actually going somewhere and not just rattling around in the vast, unread wasteland that is the Interweb.

As Stephen would say, log onto your internet machines and get crackin'!

Oh, and no particular time limit on this one. When I feel like ending it, I'll end it. Thus the benefits of being blogmistress. Also, I'm hiding comments until this contest is over, so hopefully (if I did it correctly) you won't be able to see each other's answers. And if through some fluke you are able to see others' answers, just be honest and avert your eyes. It's only polite.

**Edit: This whole "hide the comments" thing wasn't working, so they're back up. Sorry, Blogger isn't very cooperative. So, like I said, avert your eyes. I'm just assuming more than one person is going to answer, of course.**

So...

Ready...

Set...

Go!

Case Family Blog Trivia Contest Extraordinaire

1. What was Charlotte's exact weight when she was born?
2. Name two of my favorite things from 2008.
3. In what subject does Stephen have his masters degree?
4. What happened to each and every one of our fall pumpkins?
5. Name two men I want to marry, fictional or otherwise. (Sorry, Steve doesn't count. We're already legal.)
6. Which boy got on the table first?
7. Why exactly did I choose to have Charlotte's birth induced?
8. Name one irrational fear that the boys have had at some point in their short, terror-ridden lives.
9. How much did the renovations for Strickler Planetarium, where Stephen is director, cost?
10. Name one (out of many) particularly old-fashioned thing about our family.
11. What words do we have on our wall above the doorway leading into the dining room?
12. What lurks at the bottom of the mysterious pink mug?
13. What one body part have both boys cut open through freak falling accidents?
14. What did Baylor and Jack dress up as for their very first Halloween?
15. What is the official name for our family's bout of the stomach virus over this past Christmas break?
16. What specific article of clothing of Stephen's did I irreparably shrink in the wash?
17. How often do I wash my towels, as taught by my mother?
18. What was Charlotte thankful for at Thanksgiving?
19. Name one way in which I cheated on Raechel's white-cheddar corn chowder recipe.
20. What is my pet name for my beloved Twilight series?

That's all! Thanks for loving on our family through the magic of the blogosphere. I can't wait to see your answers.