RAY:Everyone knows that New Year's Day follows Christmas Day by a week. For example, when Christmas is on a Monday, which it was a couple of years ago, New Year's Day will be on a Monday, too, seven days later, right?

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: Here's the question: What is the most recent year in which Christmas Day and New Year's Day fell on different days of the week? And the answer is...last year! And the year before. They are a week apart but they're in different years.

TOM: They're in different years. Every year they fall on a different day.

RAY: Yeah. So who's our winner?

TOM: The winner is Ken McCorkle from Lakewood, Colorado. And for having his answer selected at random from among all the correct answers that we got, Ken is going to get a $25 gift certificate to the Shameless Commerce Division at the Car Talk Section of cars.com and with that gift certificate he can get a copy of "Car Talk, Car Tunes," our CD of America's best disrespectful car songs.

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