1) Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer began as a promotion for this department store.
2) Eggnog was first created and consumed in this city.
3) The original St. Nicholas in the country known today as what?
4) In A Charlie Brown Christmas, this character builds a gray snowman.
Answers:
1) Rudolph was created expressly as a promotional gimmick. In 1939, Montgomery Ward hired Robert L. May to write a Christmas story to give to shoppers May's brother-in-law liked the story well enough to write a song for it. The result was the popular song of the same name, but it wasn't recorded until ten years later. "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer was first sung by cowboy actor/singer, Gene Autry in 1949.
2) Captain John Smith reported that eggnog was consumed in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.
‘Nog’ is an English word for strong ale, and eggnog was originally made with ale. Eggnog is descended from the English drink ‘posset’ or ‘sack posset’, which was a hot drink made with sweetened milk and ale or a Spanish wine called ‘sack.’
Americans adapted it but used American liquors, like rum, or even cider. Early American cookbooks listed eggnog recipes in sections for the sick and infirm (source: http://www.foodreference.com/html/feggnog.html).
3) St. Nicholas is said to have been born around 280 A.D. in Patara, near the town of Myra (now Demre) in the Lycia province of what is now Turkey.
4) Pigpen. Pigpen was so dirty, he even turned his snowman into a gray snowman.
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