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