Geography done! Some GREAT xmas questions now please!

q. who delivers the presents on a sleigh

Which forumite posted the best Christ Mass joke ever?

what year was the first xmas card sent ?

Very funny EGG!

egg - FACT

MARVELLOUS STUFF EGGSTER!! DO CRACK ON

wat country created eggnog

MARVELLOUS STUFF REG!

What Christmas tradition originated from the desire to not have your daughters sold into slavery?

St Nicholas was born in which country?

Albania?

like family fortunes all my answers will be turkey

bitofa longshot granted..

Locking your daughter in her room and keeping an eye out for shifty types?

Turkey - although the village (Patara) was Greek at the time.

John Callcott Horsley designed what first commercial Christmas item in 1843

Christmas card?

marvellous stuff bito :^0

Yorkshireman William Strickland is believed to have brought the first what to Britain from North America in 1526

One for bitofinterest

When did Good Friday fall on Boxing Day ?

yes tommytoes

In the King George? (Kempton)

xmas tree lights

Correct Tommy, but I'm buggered if I can remember when it was.

Strickland turkey

More questions please!

who is the author of many of the BBC'S former 'ghost story for christmas' tales, inc. lost hearts and whistle and ill come to you.

SDK?

Do a search on Gubbed, sparky. Bound to be some Xmas quizzes on there.

what present did my missus give to me on my birthday, after sh@gging me senseless the night before?

An easy one, but nevertheless:

Q. Paul McCartney's Christmas song 'Pipes Of Peace' commemorates which famous event of WW1?

A. The short lived Christmas truce of 1914 on the Western Front, when the British and German soldiers played football.

did the chermans win on penalties?

1. "So this is Christmas" are the first words to which John Lennon song? (Complete title please)

2. What are the names of the Three Wise Men or The Three Kings?

3. A Christmas present for country western fans. Who sang "It was Christmas in prison the food was real good, we had turkey and pistols carved out of wood

Probably, Zaub!

O, if you're there, could you put the answers to the Qs up please?

Sparky's hosting his quiz elsewhere tonight and he'll probably be glad of the answers when he gets back, before he goes a-quizzing.

Ask, Tommy, and ye shall receive :)

1. Happy Christmas (War is over)

2. Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar

3. Answer c. John Prine
('Christmas in prison' from the album Sweet Revenge)

4. Red, green and white.
"decorations of red on a geen Christmas tree" and "You'll be doin all right with your Christmas of white".

5. A visit from St. Nicholas (The night before Christmas)
"It twas the night before Christmas when all through the house......"

6. In a clockwise direction.

7. Innards or offal (Usually deer).

8. Bohemia (Czech Republic)

9. Answer b. France Pere Noel is accompanied by the bad butcher Pere Fouettard.

10. 1664 under the prudish Puritans..

11. Turkey

12. On the 6th of January. The Epiphany or 'kings day'. Galette des Rois is 'Cake of Kings'

13. Pacific and Indian

14. Answer c. goose

15. The sending of Christmas wishes on mass produced Christmas cards.

16. 1957

17. Tchaikovsky

18. 7 years

19. The evening of the 5th of January

20. Green. A sign of the returning spring.

21. Panettone. (Anthony or Tone's bread)

22. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

23. Bourbon

24. Christmas Trees

25. 1960

26. Clove

27. Silent Night Stille Nacht

28. Chicago

29. They have all played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in film or television

28 Qs; 29 As?

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What is 23. Bourbon the answer to please?

That may be the extra answer :)

methinks Orioles has been at his sherry

10. Should be 1644. Puitans had gone by 1664 (Monarchy restored in 1660).

16. Queen's first TV message was 1957; first radio one was 1952.

;)

:^0 now that has fked it :^0

Yikes!

I found the quiz stored on this computer - so I'm going to deny all responsibility!

Cheers O!

It looks like Sparky's quiz will be the shambolic affair most would expect!