Answer: C = Hen
A male turkey is called a tom of a gobbler, a baby turkey is called a poult or chick.
Answer: A = Mince pies
Mince Pies, like Christmas Puddings, were originally filled with meat, such as lamb, rather than dried fruits and spices mix as they are today.
Answer: D = Carrots and Oats
The French make sure the reindeer aren’t hungry by leaving carrots, oats and even biscuits out. Typically, the goodies are left in shoes. When children awake they find the goodies gone and presents in their place.
Answer: A = Pigs in blankets
Pigs in blankets are traditionally served with roast turkey at Christmas Dinner in the United Kingdom.
Answer: B = 1931
The Coca-Cola Company began its Christmas advertising in the 1920s with shopping related ads in magazines like The Saturday Evening Post. The First Santa ads used a strict-looking Claus, in the vein of Thomas Nast. In 1930, artist Fred Mizen painted a department-store Santa in a crowd drinking a bottle of coke.
Answer: C = Cabbage and turnip
Also called rutabaga, yellow turnip, Swedish turnip and Russian turnip.
Answer: A = Eggnog
Answer: B = 22 million
88% of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey on Thanksgiving. 46 million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving, 22 million on Christmas and 19 million turkeys on Easter.
Answer: B = 16th century
In the 16th century, in Germany, gingerbread houses were created. These houses had gingerbread walls and were with decorated foil and gold leaf. When the Grimm's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel was written in 1812, the popularity of gingerbread houses rose.
Answer: D = Cloves
Bread sauce can be traced back to at least as early as the medieval period, when cooks used bread as a thickening agent for sauces. The utilisation of bread in this way probably comes from cooks wanting to use up their stale bread who discovered that it could be incorporated within sauces to make them thicker.
Answer: B = The Netherlands
December 5 is a major celebration especially among children because it is the time when St. Nicholas or Sinterklaas visits them and puts candies and treats on the clogs they placed by the fireplace or windows.
Answer: A = Germany
Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce.
Question # 3
Answer: D = Canada
The story of the world's first Christmas stamp begins in the summer of 1898, in London, England, with a Canadian, William Mulock.
Answer: C = Italy
Italy's La Befana, sometimes called the Christmas witch, delivers gifts the night before Epiphany, leaving her presents in shoes set by the fireplace. While La Befana wasn't making widespread deliveries in the early United States, other mythical holiday gift-bringers were.
Question # 5
Answer: A = Finland
Placing candles on the graves of deceased relatives at Christmastime is a deep-rooted tradition followed by non-churchgoers and members of the Orthodox faith, as well as believers from the majority Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
Answer: B = Turkey
It is believed that Nicholas was born sometime around 280 A.D. in Patara, near Myra in modern-day Turkey.
Answer: A = Saint Petersburg, Russia
The origin of The Nutcracker has its roots in the great success of The Sleeping Beauty ballet. This ballet was staged at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1890. ... He picked Hoffmann's 1816 fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" as the subject for the new ballet.
Answer: C = Pere Noel
Answer: A = England
While culinary historians debate its exact lineage, most agree eggnog originated from the early medieval Britain “posset,” a hot, milky, ale-like drink. By the 13th century, monks were known to drink a posset with eggs and figs.
Answer: C = Einsiedeln, Switzerland
Switzerland is also home to the biggest Nativity Scene in the world at Diorama Bethlehem located close to the Monastery in Einsiedeln.
Answer: D = Arnold Schwarzenegger
This was Chris Parnell’s first movie appearance.
Answer: B = Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Answer: A = The Polar Express
On Christmas Eve, a young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express, while learning about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.
Answer: B = White Christmas
"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting, released in 1942. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.
Answer: A = Macy’s in Miracle on 34th Street
Miracle on 34th Street was shot on location in New York City, with the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade sequences filmed live while the 1946 parade was happening. "It was a mad scramble to get all the shots we needed, and we got to do each scene only once," Maureen O'Hara recalled in her memoir.
Answer: D = 8
Rudolph is not in the story.
…More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and call'd them by name: "Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer, and Vixen! "On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Dunder and Blixem!
Answer: A = You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!
One of the most iconic themes from the movie A Christmas Story is, of course, Ralphie's “official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.”
Answer: C = Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
"A Visit from St. Nicholas", more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837.
Answer: C = His hat
There must have been some magic in
That old top hat they found
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around
Answer: D = 4
Jacob Marley and the spirits on Christmas Past, Present and Future.
Answer: Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Prancer, Dancer, Donner and Vixen