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GIFTS
- What gift does Scrooge send anonymously to the Cratchits on Christmas morning?
The large prize Turkey
- In Shakespeare's Henry V - and maybe too in history - what gift is sent in mockery by the Dauphin to the young English king?
Tennis balls
- Referring now to the original Christmas gifts please write down myrrh in the correct spelling.
Myrrh
- What did my true love send to me on the eighth day of Christmas?
8 maids a-milking
- When in Vergil's Aeneid the Trojan Calchas says timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, 'I fear the Greeks even when they bear gifts', what gift does he have in mind?
The wooden horse left outside of Troy
- In Shakespeare, a recipient of gifts wishes to return them to the donor - I have remembrances of yours that I have longed long to redeliver - but the donor denies
ever having given them, prompting the response Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Who is the donor?
Hamlet
- Salome, daughter of Herodias, step-daughter of Herod Antipas and aspiring lapdancer, asked her step-father for what?
The life/head of John the Baptist
- Once more in Shakespeare, Portia in Merchant of Venice disguises herself as a male lawyer to secure Antonio's survival. Bassanio insists that the lawyer be rewarded. What does the disguised Portia request that Bassanio embarrassingly gives?
The ring Portia gave him
- Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. I had to make my own way. These lines are from which modern English play or playwright?
Loot by Joe Orton - Hal to Dennis when Dennis says he can undress the corpse without fear of going to Hell as he is not a Catholic
- In the traditional riddling ballad I gave my love a cherry, the cherry is one of four gifts (+ chicken, ring, baby). What is seemingly odd about it?
It is without a stone (because in bloom) - chicken is without a bone (egg), the ring without an end (when rolling), the baby without crying (asleep)
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