YULE QUIZ

1. What does the word ‘Yule’ mean?
2. What does ‘solstice’ mean?
3. Which day is called ‘Little Yule’?
4. What date is St Stephen’s Day?
5. Which bird was traditionally killed on St Stephen’s Day?
6. Which Norse God rode the golden boar at Yule?
7. What is the first person over the threshold after midnight on New Year’s Eve called?
8. In Roman mythology, which god guarded the gate of the New Year?
9. Which of the following evergreens was banned from church decorations- holly, ivy or mistletoe?
10. What wood was the traditional Yule log made from?
11. Which bird was traditionally served at Christmas?
12. Which date does Twelfth Night fall on?
13. Which date does Twelfth Day fall on?
14. Which plant was used to kill the Norse god of light, Baldur?
15. Who flies through the sky at Yule, clad in red skins, to reward the good and punish the bad?
16. Who delivers the presents in England
17. What happens to the Glastonbury Thorn at Christmas?
18. Which of these gods was born on December 25th? Mithras, Sol Invictus, Zeus, Jesus?
19. Which day is the Feast of St Nicholas?
20. How many wise men were mentioned in the Bible
21. What are we supposed to do to apple trees on 12th night?
22. What does wassail mean?
23. What is the correct response to wassail?
24. The birth of which god was celebrated on December 25th with the words ‘The Virgin has brought forth’ and the showing of the image of a baby to the worshippers?
25. From whose religion did Christians borrow the idea of the twelve days of Christmas?
26. When did the Christian church begin to celebrate Christmas on 25th December?
27. Germans call the xmas tree tannebaum, what does it mean?
28. According to the Bible, in what kind of building was Jesus born?
29. How many ghosts appeared to Scrooge?
30. Name them.

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