Christmas Quiz

One particular carol sung around the world has been interpreted as a rallying cry for the Jacobite cause – strongly associated with the Scottish Episcopal Church. Which one was it?

One of the days that is kept just after Christmas is the Feast of St John. Which St John are we remembering?

Mariotto di Nardo (Italian, active 1394 – 1424)
Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, 1408, Tempera and gold leaf on panel
Panel: 138.7 × 83.8 × 10.2 cm (54 5/8 × 33 × 4 in.), 69.PB.31
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Bishops often tend to go to their cathedrals at Christmas.

Here’s a picture of Bishop Keith in the cathedral in Oban – but is it the right way round or is it a reversed mirror image?

Depicted in many stained glass windows and on many Christmas cards, the Ox and the Ass are intrinsic features of the nativity story. But where do we find them in the bible?

Nativity window from St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow

In the Bleak Midwinter is one of the most popular carols sung in churches at this time of the year despite its surprisingly chilly depiction of a Bethlehem surrounded by snow. Who wrote it?

Picture shows the Adoration of the Magi in a Winter Landscape  by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. (It is all happening in the bottom left)

Christina Rossetti’s dates are 1830 – 1894. Was In the Bleak Midwinter written before or after While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night?

Jesus was born in Bethlehem – but what does Bethlehem mean?

What is the motto of the Scottish Episcopal Church?

Picture credit – Walter Baxter / Episcopal Church sign / CC BY-SA 2.0

Here’s Henry Raeburn’s famous picture of The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch.  But what denomination did Robert Walker belong to?

Neither Matthew, Mark, Luke or John speak of the time that Jesus was born. Where do we get the idea that he was born at midnight from?