Christmas Quizzes 2017–2018

Apparently the title Novum was chosen because the album was recorded in Novumber

The eleventh month is not spelt like that

Arguably the title Nivum was chosen because it’s Latin for ‘of the snows’, relating to an undercurrent of interest in penguins expressed in so many of the songs

The explanation of the Latin word is sound; but that's not the Latin word chosen for the title of the album; nor does the Procol oeuvre concern itself much with Spheniscidae

Clearly the title Novum was chosen because nobody in the band liked the working title, which was ‘Unvom’

That's a horrible working title, so it would be understandable that nobody liked it (less understandable why they would ever have adopted it). But by what logic would they feel constrained to choose an anagram of the rejected title for their real title? Maybe the puzzle-compilers just wanted to start competitors thinking about anagrams

It’s widely agreed that the title Novum was chosen because it’s an acronym (initial letters of ‘New Or Virtually Unrecognised Memories')

Nonsense. We just wanted to get you thinking about words as playthings, rather than merely as carriers of meaning

Self-evidently the title Novum was chosen because it had been a long time hatching, and ‘ovum’ is the Latin word for ‘egg’

Hard to see any watertight causal connection between 'ovum' and 'Novum'

The title Novum was chosen because the band’s arms, when they relax, naturally adopt positions that spell out ‘NOVUM’ in semaphore

You can see the band spelling 'Novum' in semaphore here, but they're not relaxed

Undoubtedly Novum was the title chosen, because it’s Latin for ‘new’, and it marks a new approach for the band

Correct ... see the Brooker interview linked from the Useful Resources. This is clearly the only question that makes sense or matches the given answer.