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CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2022

Nativity scenes

1. Which nativity character has been portrayed in film by Cab Calloway, Christopher Walken and Tilda Swinton?

2. In memory of whom do Sicilians carry dried fava beans, to commemorate how he saved the island from famine in the medieval period?

3. What punishment did Pope Julius II order for the hoaxers who tricked a fellow Swiss monk into believing he’d seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary?

4. Who had a first wife called Doris and died of a painful putrefying disease in Jericho?

5. How many Magi visited the newborn Jesus, according to the New Testament?

Which group of worshippers came quickly to Bethlehem because,

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