1. In the song “The Twelve Days Of Christmas”, what did my true love send me on the eleventh day? 2. How many gifts would you receive if you received all of the gifts in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas? 3. In the song “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”, why do I want my two front teeth?
4. True or False: Joseph was the one that told Mary she was going to have a baby. 5. In the 1920s, what worldwide beverage company adopted the Santa Claus figure for a winter advertising promotion? 6. What popular Christmas candy today had its debut and was given out by a choirmaster in 1670 to quiet the noisy children? 7. What American president forbade the Christmas Tree in the White House? 8. What Christmas song, written in 1979, did the politicians, women’s groups, and seniors’ organizations protest? 9. Round or oval candies filled with fruit preserves or cream and covered with chocolate are called what? 10. From what country is eggnog?
ANSWERS:
1. Eleven Pipers Piping. 2. 364 gifts. 3. So I could wish you a merry Christmas. 4. False. An angel that appeared to Mary and told her the news. 5. The Coca-Cola company used Santa Claus to promote the idea that a soft drink was a winter beverage as well as a summer beverage. 6. The candy cane. 7. The environmentalist president, Teddy Roosevelt. 8. “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” 9. Sugarplums. 10. America. In Colonial America, rum was commonly called “grog”, so the name eggnog is likely derived from the very descriptive term for this drink, “egg-and-grog,” which corrupted to egg’n’grog and soon to eggnog. At least this is one version. Other experts have it that the “nog” of eggnog comes from the word “noggin,” which was a small, wooden, carved mug. It was used to serve drinks at table in taverns (while drinks beside the fire were served in tankards).