http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ Daily Kitten Chat Forum Topic: Xmas Quiz! en Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:42:10 +0000 http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302499 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:06:56 +0000 MadcatwomanintheUK 302499@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>11. I got the advent calendar question wrong too, our's is a chocolate one this year, so maybe believing there were 25 doors was just wishful thinking!! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302498 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:56:18 +0000 jcat 302498@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>12/12! But not sure I would have if I hadn't read this thread first... I'd never heard of a christingle either but I do know oranges were traditional stocking fillers so I guessed... </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302449 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:38:15 +0000 Moonshadow_NZ 302449@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I got 10/12, missed the advent calendar and last day of Christmas ones. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302438 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:05:42 +0000 WillowandWindismom 302438@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>What an interesting site!! I didn't know any of that. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302432 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:45:30 +0000 petpntr 302432@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I guess WW you have a choice of what to believe. This disagreement of how Boxing Day started never ends. In this link it mentions both the church gifts and the masters gift to his servants. The Boxer revolt was recent, I think in the early 1900's. </p> <p>I have never agreed with the Boxing Day story about the church. In the middle ages when it is believed to have started the priests and clergy were starving themselves. Any church that was built was probably used as a hospital as well so there wasn't much left over to give to the poor because the majority of the population were poor. It just didn't make sense to me.<br /> In the whole of England there were probably only 3 churches built (maybe more but still very few) so it wasn't like people could just go down the street and drop into a church the day after Christmas. Here is another link if you are interested.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.netglimse.com/holidays/boxing_day/boxing_day_origin.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.netglimse.com/holidays/boxing_day/boxing_day_origin.shtml</a> </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302418 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:02:21 +0000 WillowandWindismom 302418@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Here's what that link says about Boxing Day:</p> <p>Boxing Day takes place on December 26th and is only celebrated in a few countries. It was started in the UK about 800 years ago in the Middle Ages. It was the day when the alms box, collection boxes for the poor often kept in churches, were opened so that the contents could be distributed to poor people. Some churches still open these boxes on Boxing Day.</p> <p>It might have been the Romans that first brought this type of collecting box to the UK, but they used them to collect money for the betting games which they played during their winter celebrations!</p> <p>I was way off because I thought that Boxing Day had something to do with a revolt in China! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302417 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:00:19 +0000 petpntr 302417@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Well I did pretty well but that was because I read through this whole thread first LOLOLOLOLOL</p> <p>They are wrong about Boxing Day though and I think we should protest. Boxing Day was not when churches emptied their coffers. It originated in Medieval times and there weren't even many churches built yet. Servants received boxes of leftover goodies from their lords the day after Christmas. That's my story and I am sticking to it. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302415 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:56:19 +0000 WillowandWindismom 302415@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Here's a site with some interesting history of Christmas traditions. And, it explains Christingle! But no fair looking if you haven't taken the quiz yet!</p> <p><a href="http://www.whychristmas.com/customs/christingles.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.whychristmas.com/customs/christingles.shtml</a> </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302414 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:42:23 +0000 Momma to 2 MaineCoons 302414@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>okay saddly I got 8 out of 12! Sad part I second guessed my self on 3 of therm and didn't stick to my first answers! the one i had no clue about was the advent calendar! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302409 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:33:43 +0000 WillowandWindismom 302409@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I had never heard of Christingle either. But since oranges are really the only fruit that would have been in season back in the ollllldddddd days, I figured that must be the answer. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302407 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:31:34 +0000 AV 302407@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Double humbug.... I too only got 10..... guiena pigs pull the sleigh?.... and Christmas Dasiys! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302403 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:25:11 +0000 WillowandWindismom 302403@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Bah, humbug!!! I only got 10 right. I really thought that you opened the last window on an Advent calendar on Christmas morning. And I missed the one about Boxing Day. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302395 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:17:51 +0000 Niki and Charlie 302395@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Woo, I didn't know much! I got 8 right though. I didn't bother looking at what I missed. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302394 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:17:25 +0000 GreatDane 302394@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p><a href="http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-2/christingle.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-2/christingle.htm</a> </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302393 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:16:21 +0000 cricketsmama 302393@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I guess on that too GD </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302392 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:15:37 +0000 GreatDane 302392@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Never heard of it, either - but I made a good guess :) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302389 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:09:10 +0000 metsa 302389@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Whats a Christingle? Is it a drink? never even heard of it before! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302387 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:07:46 +0000 cricketsmama 302387@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Kudos to Metsa!!! wow! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302384 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:05:59 +0000 metsa 302384@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I got full marks - my guessing skills are good apparently! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302381 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:03:03 +0000 cricketsmama 302381@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>10/12...I got the advent days wrong and the fruit question </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302372 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:59:11 +0000 GreatDane 302372@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I even have a chocolate advent calendar right now :) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302371 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:58:28 +0000 GreatDane 302371@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I grew up with advent calendars so that one was easy for me. I guessed on the last day of Christmas. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302369 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:56:38 +0000 miu 302369@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I missed quite easy questions: How many days are there on a traditional advent calendar? and What is the last day of Christmas called? :( </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302368 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:53:31 +0000 GreatDane 302368@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I missed the one with the royals and the Christmas tree and the Xmas one. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302365 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:52:31 +0000 miu 302365@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Same as I did. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302361 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:50:08 +0000 GreatDane 302361@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I got 10 of 12. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12557#post-302358 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:45:34 +0000 miu 302358@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p><a href="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4030000/newsid_4033400/4033443.stm" rel="nofollow">http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4030000/newsid_4033400/4033443.stm</a> </p>