KamTours Christmas Pub Quiz
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1) The first commercial Christmas card (see picture above) is generally agreed to have appeared in 1843. Why did some people not like it?
A) They felt Christmas was becoming too commercialised
B) It depicted a family, children as well as adults, drinking wine
C) The ivy leaves bordering the design were once a pagan symbol
D) The card's popularity raised fears of a paper shortage
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2) In the Ukraine, what does it mean if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning?
A) Good luck
B) Misfortune will strike in the coming year
C) The winter will be unusually cold
D) Your house needs cleaning!
3) Which of the following is from Angels from the Realms of Glory?
A) "Join the Triumph of the skies"
B) "Wing your flight o'er all the earth"
C) “Echoing their joyous strains”
D) "Strike the harp and join the chorus"
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4) Reveillon is a meal eaten after ____ in France and Canada.
A) Midnight Mass
B) Sunday Sermon
C) The Day of the Dead
D) Boxing Day
5) All through the Christmas season in old England, "lambswool" could be found in the houses of the well-to-do. What was it?
A) Imitation snow used in decorations
B) A brew of hot ale with roast apples floating in it
C) The material used for knitting Christmas gifts
D) A fluffy confection made from almonds and sugar
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6) Before Christmas, Turkeys in Norfolk would be given something. Was it:
A) Butter to eat
B) Herbs to keep them healthy for the trek down to London
C) The Chop
D) Little leather booties to wear
7) Whose patron saint is St. Nicholas?
A) Children and scholars
B) Merchants and sailors
C) Women without dowries
D) all of the above
8) In Victorian times, most Londoners would have been familiar with the "goose club".
What was it?
A) A pantomime troupe specializing in slapstick
B) A stout stick used for slaughtering geese
C) A banjo-like instrument used in door-to-door carolling
D) A method of saving to buy a goose for Christmas
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9) The first instrument on which the carol Silent Night was played was:
A) A harp
B) A pipe organ
C) A guitar
D) A kazoo
Answers will be posted on Christmas Eve. Try to avoid Googling and extra points can be awarded for creative answers though KAMTOURS is the final arbiter.
Answers at bottom of page!
Entertainment
10) In the film “It’s a Wonderful Life” how can you tell when an angel gets their wings?
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11) What was Rudolph's punishment for his red nose?
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12) Who lost the $8,000 in It's A Wonderful Life?
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13) In the film, Meet Me In St Louis, who does Judy Garland sing ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ to?
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14) When singing The Twelve Days of Christmas in its entirety, how many presents are actually received?
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15) Name as many as you can of Santa’s reindeer! (Three points for the most correct)
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16) What did Frosty the Snowman have for a nose?
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17) What do some believe is the name of the horse in Jingle Bells?
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18) What was Scrooge's first name?
History
19) Who wrote the music for "The Messiah"?
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20) Why did Peter Auty not become as famous as Aled Jones?
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21) What rather rotund figure had the UK Christmas number one song in 1993?
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22) Child star Jimmy Boyd sang which hugely popular 1950's Christmas song, which was initially banned by the Catholic Church in Boston because it supposedly mixed sex and Christmas?
23) Which Christmas slogan was introduced by Clarissa Baldwin of Dogs Trust in 1978?
24) Which year was the Big Freeze?
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25) Which group of invaders into Britain are responsible for adding the word Yuletide to the English language?
26) Who banned Christmas in England between 1647 and 1660?
27) The surname Chandler derives from the making or selling of what?
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Odd and Sods
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28) Name all the spirits by the names given in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol?
29) Which British Royal is credited with having the first Christmas tree?
30) What were Frosty the Snowman’s last words?
31) What is the name of the little girl in most versions of The Nutcracker?
32) Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is a territory of which country?
33) How many sides does a snowflake have?
34) In The Night Before Christmas, (A Visit From St Nicholas) what does St Nick do, to get back up the chimney?
35) Why were Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem when Jesus was born?
36) According to the C of E calendar, what is the 12th day after Christmas called?
37) According to the bible, the Magi stopped off in Jerusalem to see the King - what was his name?
38) How many candles are on a Hanukkah Menorah (candelabra)?
39) What was the name of the angel who appeared to Mary?
40) Where did Joseph and Mary live after their marriage?
41) Who is asked to “look down from the sky and stay by my side”?
42) What Christmas tradition is believed to have been started in Italy by St Francis of Assisi to teach his people about Christmas?
Carols and Songs
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43) “And on every street corner you hear….” what?
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44) Who kept time with the Little Drummer Boy?
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45) Which carol ends with the following words?
The King of kings salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone him.
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46) What song demands ‘figgy pudding’?
47) In which carol are “God and Sinners reconciled”?
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48) What are we doing “among the leaves so green, Here we come a-wand'ring So fair as to be seen”?.
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49) Where is the carol referring to, when it says “the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee”?
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50) What did my true love give to me on the 12th day of Christmas and in the correct order?
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1) Answer A! In an article in London magazine at the time, the new cards were criticised as they would discourage people from making home visits, not greeting their family and neighbours personally, exchanging money for the true meaning of Christmas as they knew it in their childhood.
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2) Answer A! There once lived a woman so poor, says a Ukrainian folk tale, that she could not afford Christmas decorations for her family. One Christmas morning, she awoke to find that spiders had trimmed her children's tree with their webs. When the morning sun shone on them, the webs turned to silver and gold. An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees.
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3) Answer B! The other suggested lines come from (a) Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, (c) Angels We Have Heard On High and (d) Deck the Halls. The words to Angels from the Realms of Glory were written by Scottish journalist and poet James Montgomery (1771-1854). Montgomery was a supporter of parliamentary reform, was jailed for radical journalism, and a prolific writer. About 100 of his hymns are still in use.
4) Answer A! The word is translated as Awake!
After Midnight Mass, the families would return to one of the homes and celebrate the Birth of Christ with a small feast, and much drinking.The children who were allowed to attend Mass could open one present before going to bed.
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5) Answer B! The drink that filled the wassail bowl was known as "lambswool". Sugar and spices were added to the ale or cider, with toast while baked apple floated on top. Poor people would bring their mugs to the door hoping for a share of the steaming drink.
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6) Answer D! Amazing as it seems, each turkey would be fitted with little leather boots to help them on the long herding down south.
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7) D all of the above, of course. A saint of many skills and his reputed bones are scattered all over the world.
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8) D! Goose clubs were popular with working-class Londoners, who paid a few pence a week towards the cost of a Christmas goose. The week before Christmas, London meat markets were crammed with geese and turkeys, many imported from Germany and France.
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9) Answer C. "Silent Night" is about a calm and bright silent night, and the wonder of a newborn child. The words were written in 1816 by a young priest, Joseph Mohr, in a post-war village in Austria. The Napoleonic Wars were finally over and the priest went for a walk and he looked out over a very quiet, winter-laden town. He was inspired...the town was at peace."
On Christmas Eve the church organ had broken by rats eating the bellows. The now-famous carol was first performed as Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht. Joseph Mohr, the young priest who wrote the lyrics, played the guitar and sang along with Franz Xaver Gruber, the choir director who had written the melody.
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10)When a bell rings
11)Couldn’t play in any reindeer games
12)Uncle Billy as played by Thomas Mitchell, extra point if you name both and character.
13)Her sister Tootie, played by Margaret O’Brien, extra point if you name both actor and character.
14) 364 (78 may be for the final run through, but if you sing it in its entirety, repeating each verse, it is 364. Each day of the year minus Christmas!)
15)Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen and Rudolph. We will give a point for Olive, as in 'Olive the other reindeer'. <g>)
16) a corncob pipe and a button nose
17)Bobtail (Dashing through the snow/ on a one-horse open sleigh
O’er the fields we go, Laughing all the way.
Bells on Bobtail ring, Making spirits bright
18)Ebeneezer
19)Handel
20)He sang We’re Walking in the Air for the film The Snowman, but his voice broke after the recording and Aled Jones made the record which sold millions
21)Mr Blobby
22)I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
23)A Dog Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas
24)1947
25)Vikings
26)One point for Oliver Cromwell 2 Points for Parliament
27)Candles
28)Christmas Past, Christmas Present Christmas Yet to Come. Minus a point for Christmas Future and an extra point for Jacob Marley
29)Elizabeth I is said to have a tree. The first proper decorated tree was for Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. Queen Victoria and Albert only popularised them.
30)I’ll be back... again some day.
31)Clara
32)Australia
33)Six
34)By laying a finger aside of his nose, and giving a nod
35)The Census or Taxes
36)Epiphany
37)Herod
38)Nine (for each night of the Festival of Lights)
39)Gabriel
40)Nazareth
41)Lord Jesus (I love thee, Lord Jesus, Look down from the sky, and stay by my cradle till morning is nigh)
42)Nativity Scene or Crèche
43)Silver bells
44) The ox and lamb kept time, pa rum pum pum pum
45)What Child is This
46)We wish you a Merry Christmas
47)Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Glory to the new born King
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled,
Joyful all ye nation rise
Join the triumph of the skies
48)A’ wassailing
49)Bethlehem
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12 Drummers Drumming
11 pipers piping
10 Lords a Leaping
9 ladies Dancing
8 Maids a Milking
7 swans a swimming
6 geese a’laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
1 Partridge in a Pear Tree
And a Merry Christmas to all and all our best for the New Year
