Answer T(rue) or F(alse)
Q2. We are told in the Bible that Mary rode into Bethlehem on a donkey
Q3. The Bible says that Jesus was born in December
Q4. The Bible says that barn animals miraculously spoke the night Jesus was born
Q5. In Ukraine spiders and spider webs are a traditional part of Christmas decorations
Q6. The traditional hook-like red-white candy canes started out as straight white sticks
Q7. The first use of electric lights at Christmas was in the 1920s
Q8. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented by an American department store to sell goods
Q9. There are at least 20 S Claus's living in the UK today
Q10. White Christmases were once fairly common in London before the 1970s with at least 20 occuring between 1900 and 1950
Ans
1F (There is no 0 AD, Jesus was probablly born between 6 and 4 BC due to a miscalculation; 2F (They may have, though as poor people they woud probably have had to borrow it);3 F (No mention of the time of the year); 4F (no direct mention of animals); 5T (In Germany, Poland, and Ukraine, finding a spider or a spider's web on a Christmas tree is considered good luck).
6F;7F (actually Edison had Chrsitmas lights outside his house in the 1880s);8T (Rudolph first appeared in a 1939 booklet written by Robert L May and published by Montgomery Ward, the department store); 9T;10F (For more southern areas of the UK away from the highest hills there were only four classic widespread white Christmas days when snow fell and laid giving a good cover between 1900 and 1950. They were 1906, 1917, 1923 and 1938).
