Dates | Carols | Terminology | Places | People |
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What is when carols were first sung?
Thousands of years ago
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What is the first song sung at a Christmas service in Rome?
Angel's Hymn
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What is a dance or song of praise and joy?
Carol
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What is where carols were first sung thousands of years ago?
Europe
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What is the man who started the Nativity plays?
St. Francis of Assisi
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What is the year the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols first began?
1918
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What is the Winter Solstice/Dec. 21st?
Pagan carols used to be sung on this day, marking the shortest day of the year.
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What is a song sung during a Nativity play?
Canticle
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What is the countries new carols spread to?
France, Spain, Germany
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What is the group that Watchnight is named after?
Shepherds
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What is the year Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans came to power?
1672
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What is the song that opens the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols every year?
Once in Royal David's City
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What is Christmas caroling?
Wassailing
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What is where carols were collected?
English Villages
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What is the group that shut down Christmas and caroling?
Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans
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What is the year Angel's Hymn was sung at a Christmas service?
AD129
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What is a song a traveling minstrel would sing?
I Saw Three Ships
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What is another name for Christmas Eve?
Watchnight
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What is the location of the songs about Mary and Jesus?
Bethlehem
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What is the guys who collected carols from villages in England?
William Sandys & Davis Gilbert
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What is the year the earliest surviving carols were written?
1410
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What is a new carol written at the time caroling became popular?
Good King Wenceslas
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What are official carol singers?
Waits
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What is where St. Francis is from?
Assisi
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What is official local council leaders?
Waits' leaders
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