1. What am I? I was originally called frumenty and made with beef, mutton, raisins, currants, prunes, wines and spices and eaten like a soup as a fasting meal. Later I was banned by the Puritans as being far too lewd and rich only to be reinstated by King George I.

2. Which country celebrates on Christmas Eve with a meal of 12 courses (traditionally including carp) representing 12 apostles?

3. Which country’s festive meal invariably includes roast goose and stewed kale followed by rice pudding with a single lucky almond? The finder is traditionally given a marzipan pig.

4. Who first introduced the turkey to the UK and when? What was previously traditionally served at Christmas?

5. What is the name of the German/Austrian yeast cake often served at Christmas?

6. What country do Elvas plums - a favourite of the Royal Family at Christmas - apparently come from and what are they?

7. Who said: “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations” (but he may not have been talking about Christmas lunch)?

a) Groucho Marx b) Oscar Wilde C) Stephen Fry

8. Who coined the phrase “The world is my oyster"?

a) William Shakespeare, b) Bette Midler c) Casanova

9. What food is being talked about in this quote from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night?

“Methinks sometimes I have no greater wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a great eater of…(?) and I believe that does harm to my wit.”

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