christmas Trivia Quiz # 315

At 4:00, but Fred forgot to because he did the last minute shopping and then went home for a snack before showtime.

When production was more localised than it is now, these three towns alone produced over 100 million mince pies a year.

The delicacies are widely popular in the UK throughout Christmas and the New Year and strangely do not contain any minced meat. Usually about three inches wide, they are basically two circles of short-crust pastry mix crimped around a filling of dried fruit, candied-peel, spices, possibly suet and alcohol, baked in an oven and topped with icing sugar.

This was from season nine's "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace". The bloody spearheads were just Christmas trees turned upside down, with red icing instead of green.

She named the doll Charlotte. It replaced her previous 'doll' which was really only a corncob.

Mixed among the gifts from home for her first Christmas away, Maude found a square of parchment, highly decorated with leaves and berries, and beautifully written out. Dame Margery was unable to read it out for her, and sent Maude to the Ladies’ Dorter to see if anyone could spell it out for her. Melusine read it for her, and Maude asked if she could learn to read. Permitted to do so only if she could persuade another from the Children’s Dorter to learn with her, she asked Henry Rancon, who went along and learned to write his name, but nothing else.

Yep. Needless to say, big brother Charlie Brown wasn't happy about it.

While she was performing, Triumph begged somebody to kill him.

Crosby's US Christmas specials had been running almost as long as the existence of television, and typically featured him appearing either with well-known stars from his own era (Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason) or "safe" contemporary US performers, like Michael Landon or Carol Burnett.



In 1977, he wanted to have an edgier guest, and Bowie was suggested to him. At the time, Bowie was known for appearing onstage in makeup and feminine clothing - an odd choice to appear with someone like Bing Crosby.



But the segment, taped 9/11/77, worked. Crosby and Bowie bantered about their kids, music (Bowie mentioned John Lennon, not quite 37 at the time, as one of the "older" musicians whose work he liked!), and Christmas, and then sang a duet of "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Peace on Earth":



"Peace on Earth, can it be

Years from now, perhaps we'll see

See the day of glory

See the day, when men of good will

Live in peace, live in peace again"



Crosby died five weeks later of a heart attack; the show aired November 30, 1977

The Stone of Scone, also known as the Coronation Stone, was stolen by four Scottish Students and taken to Scotland.



In 1951 the stone was found and returned to Westminster Abbey. However it was returned to Scotland in 1996, where it is kept at Edinburgh Castle, only returning to London when required for a Coronation.

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is the name of that song.