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Origin of different Santas
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Where does La Befana come from?
Italy
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Where does Tomte leave gifts?
At the door
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What food do children leave for Tomte?
Porridge with butter
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Who is the Snow Maiden?
Ded Moroz's granddaughter
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Which country has the biggest number of holiday figures? How many?
Germany. 3 - Christkind, Belsnickel, Krampus
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Where does Tomte come from?
Scandinavia
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What do the Yule Lads give for bad children?
Potatoes
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What does the word "Ded Moroz" mean?
Grandfather Frost
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What colour were Father Christmas' precursor's clothes?
Green
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What does Tomte look like?
Like a garden gnome
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Where do the Yule Lads come from?
Iceland
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What influenced the popularity of the modern Santa Claus in Britain?
Charles Dickens' book "A Christmas Carol"
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When does Belsnickle arrive?
Before Christmas
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What does La Befana look like?
Like a witch
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Who pulls Ded Moroz's sledge?
Three horses
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Where does Sinterklaas and Black Peter come from?
The Netherlands
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Who do children receive gifts from in Italy?
La Befana and Father Christmas
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Where do the Yule Lads leave gifts for children?
In shoes
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What gifts do bad children get from Sinterklaas and his assistant in the Netherlands?

Coal and salt

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Which popular holiday figure did Christkind replace?
St. Nicholas
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Where does Pere Noel and La Pere Fouettard come from?
France
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What does Krampus (Germany) do to bad children?
Beats them with a birch rod. Tosses them in a river in a burlap sack.
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When did the Yule Lads become popular?
In 1932 After the short poem "Christmas arrives"
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Who do children usually leave gifts for in France?
Pere Noel's donkey
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Who promoted Christkind in Germany?
Martin Luther.