Sunday Special - Merry Christmas !

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Merry Christmas !

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DID YOU KNOW...

Christmas wasn't declared an official holiday in the United States until June 26, 1870.-



1. What is the capital of Christmas Island?

a. - The Settlement

b. - Paro

c. - Murray Hill

d. - Smith Point

2. Saint Nicholas was the bishop of Myra in Lycia.

True or False

3. Who wrote the song "White Christmas" for the film "Holiday Inn"?

a. - Cole Porter

b. - Jacobs & Casey

c. - Rodgers & Hammerstein

d. - Irving Berlin

4. In what year did the British government abolish Christmas?

a. - 1547

b. - 1847

c. - 1747

d. - 1647

5. What is the name of the department store that created "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"?

a. - Macy's

b. - Montgomery-Ward

c. - Nordstrom

d. – Gimbels

6. "Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth" is Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in what language?

a. – Welsh

b. - Cornish

c. - Manx Gaelic

d. - Scottish Gaelic

7. The Beatles have had four Christmas number one singles in the UK, but which

was their last ?

a. - I Feel Fine

b. - Hello Goodbye

c. - Day Tripper

d. - I Want To Hold Your Hand

8. Xmas is a common abbreviation of Christmas but from what alphabet does this originate?

a. - Greek

b. - Arabic

c. - Cyrillic

d. – Phoenician

9. To which capital city does the city of Oslo give a Christmas Tree every year?

a. – Paris

b. – Italy

c. – London

d. - Stockholm

10. Who chose December 25th as the day of celebration for Christ's birth?

a. - Pope Marcellus I

b. - Pope Julius I

c. - Pope Innocent I

d. - Pope Benedict I

11. In traditional Ukrainian houses a Christmas tree will often be decorated with a spider and web for good luck.

True or False

12. Two Polish boys wrote a letter to Santa that now hangs on his Post Office wall, what was the letter written on?

a. - A soda tin

b. - An ammunition shell casing

c. - The hide from a Polish Red cow

d. - Birch Bark

13. In what year was the first printed Christmas card made?

a. - 1813

b. - 1843

c. - 1893

d. - 1923

14. "Viscum album" is the Latin name for what?

a. - Holly

b. - Mistletoe

c. - Poinsettia

d. - Evergreen

15. To the nearest ton, how heavy was the world's largest Christmas pudding?

a. - 1

b. - 2

c. - 3

d. - 4

16. According to a collaboration between Moët & Chandon and Heineken, how many bubbles are there in a bottle of champagne?

a. - 25 Million

b. - .25 Million

c. - 250 Million

d. - 2.5 Million

17. Who invented the Christmas cracker?

a. - James Gosling

b. - Rudolph Diesel

c. - Martin Cooper

d. - Tom Smith

18. How many reindeer are there in Clement Moore's 1822 poem "A visit from Saint Nicholas"?

19. What country was "Good King Wenceslas" duke of?

a. - Bohemia

b. - Silesia

c. - Moravia

d. - Hungary

20. What was the name of Scrooge's deceased business partner in Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"?

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1. – a

2. – True

3. – d

4. – d

5. – b

6. – b

7. – b

8. – a

9. - c

10. - b

11. - True

12. - d

13. - b

14. - b

15. - c

16. - c

17. - d

18. - 8

19. - a

20. Jacob Marley
 
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