TRUE OR FALSE
1. The traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
2. A spider's web found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.
3. The needles in some types of Christmas trees are a good source of Vitamin E.
4. In 1681 English Parliament passed a Law that made Christmas illegal.
5. The abbreviation of Christmas to Xmas is not irreligious.
6. In Victorian times turkeys came from Norfolk so had to wear shoes.
7. In Armenia the traditional Christmas Eve meal consists of fried fish, lettuce and Spinach.
8. In Sweden a common Christmas decoration resembling a goat is made.
9. In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is customary for the streets to be blocked off on Christmas Eve so that the people can roller-skate to church.
10. Christmas was first celebrated in the 4th Century
11. Failing to attend church on Christmas Day was an illegal act until 1967.
12. The card game bridge originated in Turkey
13. The first pantomime was produced in Britain in 1717.
14. The name of Mistletoe comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning dung-on-a-twig.
15. The word turkey is a North American Indian word that literally means fat noisy bird.
16. In the French version of the song The 12 Days of Christmas, on the 11th day my true love sent me 11 bosomy maidens.
17. The Christmas cracker was invented in China?
18. The first British Christmas stamps were issued in 1966.
19. There is a village in Scotland called Cold Christmas.
20. Traditionally German children are not allowed to see the Xmas tree until Christmas Day.
ANSWERS
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. True
11. True
12. True
13. True
14. True
15. False
16. True
17. False
18. True
19. False
20. True
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