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Interactive Guide Quiz Part Two: At the Hall Answers

Points are awarded for each part of the answer, with a total of 55.

  1. Tips (1 point) / Vails (1 point); Christmas Boxes (1 point). (Total points available: 3.)
  2. 26 December (1 point) / St Stephen’s Day (1 point) / Boxing Day (1 point) / day following Christmas Day (1 point). (Total points available: 3.)
  3. Employers often give to servants: working clothes / livery (uniform) (1 point), or fabric to make them (1 point); or ‘improving’ / work-related (recipes / household-manuals) books (1 point); on or before Christmas Day (1 point). Parents to children: ‘improving’ / ‘moralising’ books (1 point); or toys (1 point) – for poor, generally home-made (1 point); on or before Christmas Day (1 point). Adult friends and family of similar status: clothing and accessories (1 point), such as gloves (1 point); calendars / almanacks (1 point); and money (1 point); at New Year (1 point); and produce (1 point), on or before Christmas Day (1 point). (Total points available: 14.)
  4. Evergreens (1 point) – typically holly, ivy and mistletoe (1 point), but also any other greenery found at this time of year, such laurel (1 point); usually put up on Christmas eve (1 point), and taken down on 5 or 6 January (1 point), or sometimes 2 February (1 point). Holly was put behind and in objects (1 point); and a ‘kissing bough’ (1 point), frequently from the ceiling of a kitchen (1 point) in a large house, or kitchen-living-room of a small cottage (1 point). (Total points available: 10.)
  5. Late 18th century (1 point). (Total points available: 1.)
  6. Yule Clog (1 point). (Total points available: 1.)
  7. Twelfth-Night / -Eve (1 point); in the basement kitchen (1 point), perhaps in the south-west room with heat-damage to the brick floor (1 point). (Total points available: 3.)
  8. Blind Man’s Buff (1 point) and Apple Bobbing (1 point), Bullet Pudding (1 point), Hunt the Slipper (1 point), Hot Cockles (1 point). (Total points available: 5.)
  9. Plum Pudding (1 point); boiled in a cloth (1 point) in a copper (1 point), in the basement kitchen (1 point), perhaps in the south-west room with heat-damage to the brick floor (1 point). (Total points available: 5.)
  10. On Christmas Eve (1 point), perhaps because bell-ringing kept away evil spirits (1 point). (Total points available: 2.)
  11. Servants in the basement (1 point); family and guests on the first floor (1 point); cooked in the basement kitchen (1 point), perhaps in the south-west room with heat-damage to the brick floor (1 point). (Total points available: 4.)
  12. Down the chimney (1 point); and through holes in and around windows (1 point), doors (1 point), and floors (1 point). (Total points available: 4.)

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