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Christmas Trivia

Do you consider yourself a Christmas fanatic? Well, it's time to test that title.  Play Aristotle's  Christmas Trivia Game.  Good luck and have fun!

  1. For people who live in the Canadian prairies, the Christmas season traditionally begins with a shipment of Japanese _____.

     rice wine
     oranges
     teas
     dolls

  2. In Sweden, the "tomte" is a ____.

    3.  seasonal dessert
     Christmas elf
     table centerpiece
     Christmas gnome

  3. Reveillon is a meal eaten after ____ in France and Canada.

     Midnight Mass
     Sunday Sermon
     The Day of the Dead
     Boxing Day

  4. December 26th, also known as Boxing Day, is the holy day of which saint?

     St. Nicholas
     St. Stephen
     St. Francis
     St. Peter

  5. Whose patron saint is St. Nicholas?

     children and scholars
     merchants and sailors
     women without dowries
     all of the above

  6. In the 1800s, German settlers in Pennsylvania became the first in our country to decorate their homes with _____ for Christmas.

     holly
     wreaths
     stockings
     fir trees

  7. The poem "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", written by Clement Moore in 1823, was originally known as _____.

     "Sleigh Bells in the Distance"
     "Visions of Sugar Plums"
     "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
     "Footsteps on my Roof-top"

  8. Most of the Christmas carols sung today were composed in the ______.

     period shortly after Christ's birth
     1300s and 1400s
     1500s and 1600s
     1700s and 1800s

  9. The Mexican tradition of posado is a recreation of Mary riding on a ____ and Joseph looking for a place to spend the night.

     donkey
     camel
     horse
     goat

  10. Traditionally, German children are not allowed to see the ___ until Christmas Eve.

     Christmas stockings
     Christmas Tree
     plum cake
     Christmas wreaths

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