Apollo Theatre Christmas Quiz Answers
Thank you once again to all of you who took part. Here are the answers:
- C – Sandringham
- B – In Tudor times
- A – The Goons
- C – An orange, an apple and a sixpence
- A/C – Shoes
- A – In 1535, from Spain
- B – In the 17th century
- C - St Nicholas miraculously putting gold into the empty stockings of young girls to prevent them from becoming prostitutes
- C – Two turtle doves
- A – An advertisement.
- B – A Bohemian martyr-prince who was murdered by his brother
- B – The Armenian Church
- C – Illustrated London News
- C – Away in a Manger
- A – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- A – Man and Woman
- B – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- C – Bustard, goose, cockerel, peacock, swan
- C – A piece of the previous year’s Yule Log
- A – Indiana, U.S.A.
- A – Cambridge
- C – They represent the three bags of gold which he gave to three sisters
- C – Kissing in the street
- C – Plough Monday
- A – An imitation Yule log
- B – Sicily
- B – Three Kings’ Day and Epiphany
- B – A clergyman’s silly season when they made fun of the mass
- A – 7
- A – Glaedelig Jul
- B – A horse
- A – For Christmas comes but once a year
- C – They followed a tropical theme
- C – A horse
- A – In pagan times
- B – Pennsylvania in 1857
- B – Hay
- A – St. Francis of Assisi
- C – Nineteenth century
- A – Christmas Day to Hogmanay
- C – Italy
- B – By burying Old Father Time in the sand
- A – Sherry, sugar, lemon and ice
- B – Be whole
- A – Commodus, A.D. 180-192
- B – Arrival
- C – A.D. 440
- B – Sir Arthur Sullivan
- B – A German Christmas yeast bread
- C – Unto us a boy is born
- C – Plum porridge
- C – God With Us
- A – Sucking pig and reisbrei (milk pudding, cinnamon and butter)
- B – The first visitor to a house after midnight on New Years Eve
- C – Watchmen
- C – It symbolises everlasting life
- C – At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in Germany.
- A – Must be dark and male; must not be flat-footed or cross eyed
- C – 1840
- A – By refusing to eat their Christmas dinners
- A – Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar
- B – It was the day upon which women returned to their work
- A – Bacchus, the Roman god of wine
- B – The Coliseum
- C – Broth, raisins, spices, breadcrumbs and wine or ale
- A – It is the same tune sung at twice the speed
- C – A lump of coal, a slice of bread, a pinch of salt and an evergreen
- A – 1880
- B – Church collection boxes
- A – It is unlucky if brought into the house before Christmas Eve
- A – Oliver Cromwell
- B – The London Waits
- B – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder & Blitzen
- A – St Joseph of Arimathea
- B – A sailing vessel
- A – A trombone
- B – Spiced, warm beer
- C – In the eighteenth century, anonymously
- C – Oslo
- C – Albert himself introduced many German Christmas customs
- B – Sir Malcolm Sargent
- C – A gum resin
- A – Sixteenth century France
- B – Lithuania
- B – Ebenezer
- B – Cologne
- B – Nine ladies dancing
- C – Triangular mince pies eaten on New Year’s Eve
- A – Franz Liszt
- B – In Scotland, the first Monday of the New Year
- A – Milk, sherry, ale, sugar
- C – 1752
- A – 1300
- A – The manger
- C – The Scandinavian god Thor, god of war
- B – Hot ale , pulp of roasted apples, sugar and spices
- A – Open Sesame
- B – Rectangular
- B – A family toasting absent friends
- A – John Wesley
- C – It is supposed to be unlucky for mistletoe to touch the floor
- C – The planet Venus
- C – Charles Wesley
- B – The Luftwaffe bombed London for the first time
- C – A dancing song
106. A – Because they regard many Christmas traditions as ‘Papist’
107. A – George V
108. B – Black Bun
109. B – Befana, a woman who fills children’s stockings with toys
110. A – Flute player
111. C – The uncles in “Conversation about Christmas Eve” by Dylan Thomas
112. A – Royalty, divinity and death
113. B – In Spain
114. B – There was no squinting person or barefooted or flatfooted woman
115. A – A pastry figure of Jesus
116. B – Martin Luther
117. A – The Romans
118. B – Egg yolks, sugar, cream, rum and brandy
119. C – White Christmas
120. A – For four weeks from the nearest Sunday to 30th November
121. A – A Christmas Club
122. B – On Christmas Day in the morning
123. B – The playing of games used to be forbidden except at Christmas
124. C – Steward to the Abbot of Glastonbury
125. B – The deeds of a manor
126. C – Boas Feste
127. A – Queen Charlotte
128. A – The raven
129. B – York Minister
130. A – From 21st December to 9a.m. Christmas Day.