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1. 25 December is Christmas Day in Australia, which is at the height of summer. Some Australians from the northern hemisphere therefore decided to celebrate Christmas in which Australian winter month?
2. A great tradition in the UK is to watch the live broadcast of the Christmas Eve service from King's College Chapel, Cambridge, which takes the form of a "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols". Which carol always begins this service?
3. One of my favorite Christmas stories is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". It was originally written by Robert L. May as a promotional booklet for which company?
4. In France, as well as some former French colonies and territories, the traditional dessert after the Christmas dinner is a "Buche de Noel". What is that?
5. In the rural US South, natural decorations are still widely used. What green plant, a member of the clubmosses, is often used as a garland along mantels, staircases and doorways?
6. When the actual Christmas Days are over and the lazy time "in between the years" has started, in Germany and Austria one of the favorite pastimes is watching a certain sporting competition. Which one is that?
7. As if there wasn't enough fatty meat already, with our roast turkey in Wales we like to serve small pork sausages called chipolatas, wrapped in bacon and roasted. How do we refer to them?
8. Every Christmas, the flagship store of Marshall Field's in downtown Chicago drew tourists from all over the world because of its thematic Christmas displays. This all changed in 2006 when Marshall Field's was bought out by which larger rival?
9. Krampus is the slightly darker companion of which friendly figure that visits children in Austria, Southern Germany and other parts of Europe on 5th and 6th December each year?
10. Australia has its own version of "Jingle Bells", in which we don't think it is fun to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. In what do Aussies think it is fun to ride?
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