Christmas Crossword & Quiz
1. Who’s got a big red nose? 2. Within ten years, when did the first Christmas card appear? 3. Which bird originally symbolised Christmas? 4. Which plant was said to accompany the one that ‘bears the crown’? 5. Which is the only church to allow mistletoe in at Christmas? 6. What was the original name for crackers? 7. Where had the Holy Family come from before they took shelter in the stable?
8. Christmas Island is so-called because of the wintry weather experienced there - true or false?
CLUES ACROSS 7 Best place to celebrate Christmas (4) 8 Popular school play at this time of year (8) 9 Purpose for which Rome decreed the mass migration (3) 10 Under which you might find the gifts (4) 11 Sound of the peel at midnight (4) 13 As children should be when Santa comes (6) 14 The route taken by the wise men to Bethlehem (6)
15 They sought shelter elsewhere because of this (2, 4)
18 ‘O come’ all ye faithful - another way (6)
20 Santa prefers Ho Ho (2, 2) 21 One of many rung to celebrate the season (4)
22 It was fully booked at the time (3) 24 Burned remnant retained to burn again for luck next year (3, 5) 25 Corruption of ‘natal’ sung repeatedly by angels (4)
CLUES DOWN 1 People of Caesar Augustus (6) 2 One of the tribe of Israel (3) 3 Only way to get into a parcel or packet (6) 4 The shepherds were commanded to, the Magi did as well (6) 5 The Christmas story is so, just like seasonal foliage (9) 6 Of those sharing a common national or cultural tradition (6) 12 As are homes, shops and public buildings at this time of year (9) 16 Another name for one who foretold The Coming (6) 17 So his mother might have introduced the infant Jesus (2, 4) 18 The charm and enticement of the season (6) 19 Glittering metal strips for seasonal decoration (6) 23 ‘
....is’ so ‘and all alone and ever more shall be so’ (3)
9. Which Gospel gives the fullest account of Christ’s birth? 10. In which country did the pantomime originate? 11. What was abolished by Act of Parliament in 1647? 12. Who was Jacob Marley? 13. Which carol was written because of the activity of church mice? 14. What is celebrated on December 6th? 15. Who did Mary visit in Juda before the birth of Christ? 16. How long did the Lord of Misrule reign? 17. What feast marks the end of the Ecclesiastical Christmas season? 18. Who is said to have been born on December 31st? 19. What came first in crackers - the motto or the bang? 20. Who invented crackers? 21. Where does the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree come from? 22. What country are the Magi said to have come from? 23. Which good Bohemian king was murdered by his brother? 24. In which tree might you find a partridge? 25. Who announced the advent of Christ’s cousin John? 26. Who told Herod of the birth of Christ? 27. When is St Stephen’s Day celebrated? 28. Who is said to have planted the first Glastonbury Torn? 29. When is St Tomas’s Day celebrated? 30. Where will you find Black Tom of Soothill? 31. Where is the Devil’s Knell tolled? 32. Who was born at Woolsthorpe on Christmas Day, 1642? 33. What does the Mayor of Glastonbury send to the Queen for Christmas Day?
34. Who composed the tune for ‘In Te Bleak Midwinter’? 35. What’s a Wait? 36. What event was first held on Christmas Eve, 1918? 37. When is Plough Sunday? 38. What have the 1st and 6th of January, the 29th of March and the 29th September have in common?
39. What was a Hackin? 40. When is St. Distaff’s Day? 41. What notable event took place in London on December 26th 1717? 42. Which king died on Candlemas Day, 1702? 43. Who is said to have made the first church Christmas crib? 44. What was a ‘Bang of Expectation’? 45. Who died violently in Canterbury during the Christmas season in 1170? 46. Where may you find the Church of the Nativity? 47. Where does the tradition of the Christmas Tree come from? 48. Who is said to have introduced the custom there? 49. Who is said to have brought it here? 50. Who first devised the red and white outfit Father Christmas wears today?
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CROSSWORD SOLUTIONS; ACROSS: 7) Home, 8) Nativity, 9) Tax, 10) Tree, 11) Ring, 13) Asleep, 14) Direct. 15) No room, 18) Adeste, 20) Ha ha, 21) Bell, 22) Inn. 24) Old ember, 25) Noel DOWN: 1) Romans, 2) Jew, 3) Unwrap, 4) Attend, 5) Evergreen, 6) Ethnic, 12) Decorated, 16) Oracle, 17) My babe, 18) Allure, 19) Tinsel, 23) One QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Rudolph the reindeer; 2. 1842; 3. The wren; 4. The ivy; 5. York Minster; 6. Bon Bons; 7. Nazareth; 8. False; 9. St. Luke’s; 10. Roman Italy; 11. Christmas; 12. Ebenezer Scrooge’s partner; 13. Silent Night; 14. St. Nicholas’s Day; 15. Her cousin Elizabeth; 16. For the twelve days of Christmas; 17. Candlemas; 18. Judas Iscariot; 19. The motto; 20. Tom Smith; 21. Norway; 22. Persia (Iran); 23. King Wenceslas; 24. A pear tree; 25. The Angel Gabriel; 26. The Wise Men from the East; 27. December 26th (Boxing Day); 28. Joseph of Arimathaea; 29. December 21st; 30. It’s a bell in the church tower in Dewsbury, Yorkshire; 31. Dewsbury in Yorkshire; 2. Sir Isaac Newton; 33. Sprigs from the Glastonbury Thorn; 34. Gustav Holst; 35. An old name for a carol singer; 36. The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols held at King’s College, Cambridge; 37. The Sunday nearest to January 5th; 38. They are all dates on which Christmas Day was celebrated before December 25th was finally decided upon; 39. A large sausage of mixed minced meats and spices made to be eaten on Christmas Day morning; 40. January 7th; 41. The first pantomime was produced by a Mr. Rich, Licensee of the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields; 42. King William III; 43. St Francis of Assisi; 44. Another name for an early cracker; 45. St Thomas à Becket; 46. In Bethlehem’ 47. Germany; 48. St. Boniface, an English monk; 49. Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria; 50. The Coca Cola Company in the course of an advertising campaign.
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