Christmas Quiz! – "what’s the link?"

:032:Whats the prize?:newangel:

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:032:Whats the prize?:newangel:

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🙂Wot are you like?
Err.. I dunno about prize,
Mmm....how'bout you get to feel like a 'smartypants' for the day hun😉

So, forgive me being stupid, rog.....but is it a different link for each of the 8 pairings? Or one link fits all. ()
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Mmm....how'bout you get to feel like a 'smartypants' for the day hun😉

Just an ordinary day then:005:

1) the advert for Coke maybe

2) Didn't St Nicolas used to put coins in prostitutes stockings on xmas eve to give them the night off:confused:

erm...too much think & I've got to dash out:cool::p...I'll come back to it later;)

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So, forgive me being stupid, rog.....but is it a different link for each of the 8 pairings? Or one link fits all. () xxx

Yeah sorry, I didn't make that very clear did I, but its different answers to each question although it seems a couple are very closely related now that I look back on em... anyway, don't forget it ain't no proper quiz, so don't take it too seriously as its just summit I did while sitting in front of my screen waiting on emails:o

Just an ordinary day then:005:

1) the advert for Coke maybe

2) Didn't St Nicolas used to put coins in prostitutes stockings on xmas eve to give them the night off:confused:

erm...too much think & I've got to dash out:cool::p...I'll come back to it later;)

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On 1. Your answer is close but too vauge, I'm looking for a specific on that one as the answer is specific.

On 2. you're asking me a question hun, & not actually posting an answer (am I being too Prashna-esque [it's just a little joke Spock 😉 but I suspect you know the answer to these mate] although you're again kinda close but not the way i heard it 'Aims')

oliver cromwell of puritan fame banned christmas (q 5/8)

tigress

oliver cromwell of puritan fame banned christmas (q 5/8) tigress

totally correct Tigress
The mince pie thing on Q.5 is that they were shaped like little cribs with a baby in - until Cromwell banned em, and then when mince pies did eventually make it back into popular use - they were like they are now... (kinda sad really - a little mince pie the shape of a crib and baby - a lot of effort and now a lost tradition eh?):(

now I never knew that bit about them being crib shapes..my whole family will find out all about that now over christmas dinner

tigress

No1 To be more precise! Coca Cola used Santa Claus in their ads in the 1950's. Up until then his suit was green. It was Coca Cola who made his suit red to suit their colours.

No1 To be more precise! Coca Cola used Santa Claus in their ads in the 1950's. Up until then his suit was green. It was Coca Cola who made his suit red to suit their colours.

Totally correct - only I think it was the 1930's and not 50's - and so Coca Cola are wholly responsible for what we've all been led to believe is the traditional image of Father Christmas

4. Meaty Soup - Christmas pudding?

A meaty soup Frumenty was eaten around in the 14th century, and made of beef mutton raisins currents prunes spices and wine, and eaten as a soup or broth before the Christmas celebrations. In the late 15th century breadcrumbs, eggs, and alcohol were added to make in into a plum pudding. Meat was eventually eliminated from the recipe in the 17th century, and we have variations of family recipes as the sweet pudding it is today............:)

3. A drug up tripping Shaman - Father Christmas coming down chimneys?
Goes back to prehistoric times when people lived underground. The smokehole in those times equates to today's chimney.:cool:

7. the word 'Xmas' – Greece?
X is from the Greek letter "chi" which has a sound similar to the one in words like "Christmas" It is the first letter in Christos (in Greek) which was from what "Christ" was derived (meaning "messiah").

Dunno about the others Q's though.:( Nice quiz Conspiritualist.:045:

Moonfairy
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4. Meaty Soup - Christmas pudding?

A meaty soup Frumenty was eaten around in the 14th century, and made of beef mutton raisins currents prunes spices and wine, and eaten as a soup or broth before the Christmas celebrations. In the late 15th century breadcrumbs, eggs, and alcohol were added to make in into a plum pudding. Meat was eventually eliminated from the recipe in the 17th century, and we have variations of family recipes as the sweet pudding it is today............:)

Absolutely bang on Fleur!:)
The availability of better muslin also helped to mark this change as foodstuffs could now be strained and so solidified (apparently)!

3. A drug up tripping Shaman - Father Christmas coming down chimneys?
Goes back to prehistoric times when people lived underground. The smokehole in those times equates to today's chimney.:cool:

7. the word 'Xmas' – Greece?
X is from the Greek letter "chi" which has a sound similar to the one in words like "Christmas" It is the first letter in Christos (in Greek) which was from what "Christ" was derived (meaning "messiah").

Dunno about the others Q's though.:( Nice quiz Conspiritualist.:045:
Moonfairy
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Hi Lesley, totally correct on both, 🙂 🙂
on number 7. - "Xmas" came into use becuse it was (at that time) considered rude to say the whole name of the lord - so the first letter was used and then mas - and is not (as some people think) a modern abreviation.

on number 8, you're totally right again...
The thinking is that Moore when he wrote his famous poem that has the lines “twas the night before Christmas” pulled together many bits of Santa Clause from differing traditions but the chimney thing came from his knowledge of the peoples that eventually crossed the land bridge between asia and the Americas.
Their tradition contained a certain Shaman that took a hallucinogenic red and white mushroom and rode a sledge pulled by reindeer.
He would “fly’ to the spirits to get what the people needed and then come down the chimney of the ‘yurt’ (as you say it was also the door and does date that far back), the reindeer would drink his discarded urine and ‘wrecked’ themselves too.

BTW This was also common practice among humans as it produced a drug present in the urine that stays potent even if it has passed through several people – and is possibly where the term “getting pissed” is derived from!

8. Royal Family – the Banning of Christmas ?

Just wondered if this was anything to do with the Royle family - a Xmas comedy sketch of theirs perhaps? :confused:

Totally correct - only I think it was the 1930's and not 50's - and so Coca Cola are wholly responsible for what we've all been led to believe is the traditional image of Father Christmas

I stand corrected, you're totally right it was the early 1930's.

2. Christmas stocking - prostitution?

I think this was more to do with preventing girls going into prostitution rather than "giving prostitutes the night off".

some poor girls washed their stockings and hung them up to dry and St Nick put money in them so that they didn't have to go into prostitution.

am I right?

Hi Lesley,

No.8 - Yeah we didn't get Christmas back until we had a Royal Family again as it had been banned (can't remember what the period was known as either [not that I was around then])

Hi top2toe
No.2 it's definately right that wealth was placed in the stocking to avoid the girls going into prostitution, but the way heard it was that a senior individual had three daughters for whom he could not afford doweries and therefore they would have to go into prostitution. St.Nick put money into their drying stockings by the fire during the night in order that they did have their doweries and avoided the more unpalatable future?

Apologies for the late replies guys... consider me penitent 😮

Hi Rog

for posting these answers.

My curiosity has now been satisfied.

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