The Internet Christmas Quiz!

[MSB]

Hi frontroomers,
I was bored, so I decided to go search the shared area for Christmas stuff. And I found this:

Year 9 – An Internet Christmas

What is Swedish for ‘Happy Christmas?
Name Santa’s reindeer.
Who wrote ‘Silent Night?’
Who was Saint Nicholas?
The people of New Zealand will start their Christmas Day before us, but by how many hours?
The Twelve days of Christmas includes ‘4 calling birds’. What is a calling bird?
Reindeer are normally found in Lapland, but there are some roaming free in the UK. Where?
What are reindeer known as in Canada?
What is the latin name for a Mistletoe?
Where did the legend of kissing some under the mistletoe come from?
A robin’s breast isn’t really red, so what colour is it?
What sort of bird is an American Robin?
Every year the people of Norway provide the Christmas tree that stands in Trafalgar Square in London. Why?
Why do you put holly up in you r house at Christmas?
Who wrote the poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas’?
Jim lives in Lincoln. He needs to get to London for Christmas Day. What time does the last train leave Lincoln that will get him there in time?
What us hogmanay?
What is ‘first footing’?
Who accompanies Saint Nicholas in Sweden?
When did Santa first wear his red robe?
What day of the week will Christmas day be on in 2005?
I think that you are supposed to find the answers on the internet. So post your answers up here and compare them. In about a week I will post the answers and you can see how many you got right.
Merry Christmas ~:santa:
Avlvs

[Shaka_Khan]

2. Rudolph

[Hepcat]

oooo ooo oooo :idea2:

5. Depends on where you are, but we are GMT+12 so if you are at GMT time then it is 12 hours before you, hahaha slow pokes! I get presents before you!

[naut]

21. Sunday.

[Rodion Romanovich]

A few easy by wiki and Internet dictionaries:

What is Swedish for ‘Happy Christmas?
God jul
http://lexikon.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/swe-eng

Name Santa’s reindeer.
Rudolph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph

Who wrote ‘Silent Night?’
text: Fr. Josef Mohr, music: Franz X. Gruber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night

Who was Saint Nicholas?
Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, who had a reputation for secret gift-giving
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

The people of New Zealand will start their Christmas Day before us, but by how many hours?
depends on which time zone this test comes from :laugh4:

What day of the week will Christmas day be on in 2005?
Saturday
using the windows calendar

What is the latin name for a Mistletoe?
Viscum album (Europe) and Phoradendron leucarpum (America)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe

Where did the legend of kissing some under the mistletoe come from?
Mistletoe figured prominently in Norse mythology (whence the modern Western custom of kissing under bunches of it hung as holiday decorations).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe

A robin’s breast isn’t really red, so what colour is it?
Orange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Robin

What sort of bird is an American Robin?
is a migratory songbird of the thrush family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Robin


These were a bit more difficult:

The Twelve days of Christmas includes ‘4 calling birds’. What is a calling bird?
Reindeer are normally found in Lapland, but there are some roaming free in the UK. Where?
What are reindeer known as in Canada?
Every year the people of Norway provide the Christmas tree that stands in Trafalgar Square in London. Why?
Why do you put holly up in you r house at Christmas?
Who wrote the poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas’?
Jim lives in Lincoln. He needs to get to London for Christmas Day. What time does the last train leave Lincoln that will get him there in time?
What us hogmanay?
What is ‘first footing’?
Who accompanies Saint Nicholas in Sweden?
When did Santa first wear his red robe?

[naut]

Last year the 25th December was a Sunday.

The 'red robe' is based on Bishops robes.

[Rodion Romanovich]

yes, you are correct, my mistake :shrug:

[caravel]

The 'red robe' is based on Bishops robes.

He was originally in green IIRC. There is an urban legend that he changed into red in coca cola adverts and that this has perpetuated. Not true.