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Xmas Quiz!
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10/12...I got the advent days wrong and the fruit question
Posted 11 months ago by cricketsmama #
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Kudos to Metsa!!! wow!
Posted 11 months ago by cricketsmama #
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I guess on that too GD
Posted 11 months ago by cricketsmama #
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Woo, I didn't know much! I got 8 right though. I didn't bother looking at what I missed.
Posted 11 months ago by Niki and Charlie #
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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.
Posted 11 months ago by WillowandWindismom #
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Double humbug.... I too only got 10..... guiena pigs pull the sleigh?.... and Christmas Dasiys!
Posted 11 months ago by AbbigaleViolet #
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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.
Posted 11 months ago by WillowandWindismom #
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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!
Posted 11 months ago by Momma to 2 MaineCoons #
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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!
Posted 11 months ago by WillowandWindismom #
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Well I did pretty well but that was because I read through this whole thread first LOLOLOLOLOL
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.
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Here's what that link says about Boxing Day:
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.
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!
I was way off because I thought that Boxing Day had something to do with a revolt in China!
Posted 11 months ago by WillowandWindismom #
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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.
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.
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.http://www.netglimse.com/holidays/boxing_day/boxing_day_origin.shtml
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What an interesting site!! I didn't know any of that.
Posted 11 months ago by WillowandWindismom #
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I got 10/12, missed the advent calendar and last day of Christmas ones.
Posted 11 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
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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!!
Posted 11 months ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #
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