Final

Misplaced Modifiers 76, Cellar Rats 63, Frayed Naughts 59

Round by round:

        MM-CR-FN
        10-4-8  current events
         5-5-6  science
         7-6-7  sports & leisure
         9-8-7  history
        10-8-4  audio
         9-5-3  arts & literature
         7-7-5  geography
         5-6-8  entertainment
         6-4-4  miscellaneous
         8-10-7 challenge round

The triples were:

Science - planetary moons, astronomical terminology, periodic table,
  movie special effects technology, botany
S&L - Olympic cities, World Cup soccer, pro wrestling, Muhammad Ali,
  team mascots
History - Vietnam War; FLQ crisis; Toronto: the good, the bad, and
  the ugly (two triples); Vikings
Audio - blues, famous instrumentals (titles), rock songs covered by
  lounge singers, reggae, New Age
A&L - children's books (from characters), US authors (two triples),
  Italian art terms, names of writers known by initials
Geography - famous rocks, Ontario superlatives, world capitals,
  settings of TV shows (two triples)
Entertainment - defective detectives on TV, lesser superheroes'
  secret identities, the Rolling Stones, TV stars in multiple
  shows, TV producers
Misc - cocktails, Chinese year names, radio stations, celebrity
  horses, stupid things people said
Challenge - Tour de France, Philip K. Dick, 
  Entertainment: Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers,
  History of Writing, Space Firsts, Canadian Languages 

Doug (Mods) had 8 deuces in the game; Ron (Naughts) had 7 deuces 
and a steal; Tim (Mods) and Ralph (Mods) each had 7 deuces; 
John (Rats) and Bob (Mods) each had 6 deuces.

Reach for the Tap won both the Stinker and the Canadiana
prize; Forza Azzurri won the Fewest Zeroes.  Craig of the Rats and
David of Azzurri were the divisional scoring leaders.

Only 21 questions went to the audience (it should have been a few
more, but the QMs kept forgetting), and Five of What? took the
audience prize with an amazing score of 17.

The all-time standings for number of Christmas Cup
wins since the Cup was instituted are now:

        MI5                      9
        Misplaced Modifiers      8
        Usual Suspects           8
        Forza Azzurri            4
        Sam's Spades             3
        Canecas Grandes          3
        Treppenwitzers           1