’tis the Season
This is the first day of Christmas.
What is 25 December?
What are people doing when they clamour?
They are shouting (Latin: clāmāre).
This is the time period between the Fall of Rome in the West and the Italian Renaissance.
What are the Middle Ages?
What is the Nile?
These are the supports of a table or chair.
What is a leg?
This bird is the traditional Christmas meal in England.
What is a goose?
What does one do when one donates something?
One gives it (Latin: dōnāre).
This was the language of the poet Chaucer.
What is Middle English?
What is the St Lawrence?
This is the part of a kettle or teapot through which the liquid is poured.
What is a spout?
*DOUBLE POINTS*
The dark leaves and vibrant berries of this evergreen tree are a common Christmas decoration.
What is holly?
What is one doing when one is stationary?
One is standing (Latin: stāre).
Edoras, Hobbiton and Minas Tirith are all towns and cities in this world.
What is Middle Earth?
A third of British Columbia is drained by this one river.
What is the Fraser?
This is the part of the book that protects it from the elements and supports the binding.
What is the cover?
This fancy name for Christmas comes from the Latin for ‘birthday’.
What is the Nativity?
What does one feel when one is timid?
One feels afraid (Latin: timēre).
This is someone who buys from wholesalers and sells to the public.
What is a middleman?
*DOUBLE POINTS*
This colourful river is the second-longest in China.
What is the Yellow River?
This is the tough outer part of an orange, or of certain cheeses.
What is a rind?
This is not usually a good place to put a baby, but it was the only spot available on the first Christmas.
What is a manger?
What is an argument if it is valid?
It is strong and sound (Latin: valēre).
This is another name for the game Keep-away.
What is Monkey-in-the-Middle (or Piggy-in-the-Middle)?
This river, which today flows through Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade, once marked the north-eastern border of the Roman Empire.
What is the Danube?
Ants use this organ for the senses of both taste and touch.
What are antennae (feelers)?