| 1. Which Christmas tree fact is NOT true?A. | | | | D. MoroccoA. Bohemia.QQ: Who knows why those |
| Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real | | | | Bohemians always get such a bad rep? |
| ones every year since 1991. | | | | Although, history has it that Wenceslas, who |
| | | | lived in the 10th century, was only a Duke, |
| B. Nova Scotia leads the world in exporting | | | | not a King at all.5. In 8971, the New York |
| Christmas trees. | | | | Sun newspaper wrote a famous response to a |
| | | | little girl's question: "Yes, _______, there |
| C. Franklin Pierce was the first president | | | | is a Santa Claus." Can you name that girl?A. |
| to decorate an official White House Christmas | | | | Mary |
| tree. | | | | |
| | | | B. Charlotte |
| D. The Christmas tree was chosen to | | | | |
| represent this holy holiday because it's | | | | C. Vidalia |
| shape points the way to heaven.D. The | | | | |
| Christmas tree was chosen to represent this | | | | D. VirginiaD. VirginiaQQ: Virginia O'Hanlon |
| holy holiday because it's shape points the | | | | to be exact! Shame on you, if you missed |
| way to heaven.QQ: OK, so maybe it's true, but | | | | it.6. Can you name Scrooge's dead business |
| the QuizQueen can't prove that fact, as | | | | partner from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas |
| reasonable as it sounds, because it wasn't in | | | | Carol?"A. Jacob Marley |
| any of the literature she dug up for this | | | | |
| quiz.2. Can you name the popular Christmas | | | | B. Tiny Tim |
| song that was actually written for | | | | |
| Thanksgiving?A. Jingle Bells | | | | C. Bob Cratchett |
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| B. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear | | | | D. Old WilliamA. Jacob MarleyQQ: The first |
| | | | of four spirits to appear to Scrooge that |
| C. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus | | | | fateful Christmas Eve was that of Jacob |
| | | | Marley, his old business partner.7. One of |
| D. Away in the Manger | | | | the pagan traditions that Christians have |
| | | | incorporated into their Christmas celebration |
| A. Jingle BellsQQ: The song was composed in | | | | includes hanging mistletoe. Which of these |
| 1857 by James Pierpont, and was originally | | | | is NOT a former pagan belief?A. Ancient |
| called One Horse Open Sleigh. When you think | | | | Europeans believed that the mistletoe plant |
| about it, the words make a lot more sense | | | | held magical powers to bestow life and |
| that way...3. Electric Christmas tree lights | | | | fertility as well as protect against disease. |
| were first used in what year?A. 1865 | | | | |
| | | | B. French girls used to slip branches of |
| B. 1895 | | | | mistletoe beneath their pillows to dream of |
| | | | their future husbands. |
| C. 1905 | | | | |
| | | | C. The Celts believed mistetoe brought about |
| D. 1932B. 1895QQ: American Ralph E. Morris | | | | peace and goodwill. |
| had the bright idea that electric Christmas | | | | |
| lights would be safer than using candles.4. | | | | D. Northern Europeans associated mistletoe |
| Good King Wenceslas was king of what | | | | with the Norse goddess of love, Freya and |
| country?A. Bohemia | | | | developed the custom of kissing underneath |
| | | | mistletoe branches.B. French girls used to |
| B. England | | | | slip branches of mistletoe beneath their |
| | | | pillows to dream of their future husbands.QQ: |
| C. Germany | | | | That was a tough one, wasn't it? |
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