A boar's head is a traditional Christmas dish. According to a popular story, the unlucky boar whose head began the custom
in the Middle Ages was killed by:
A) Choking to death on a book of Greek philosophy
The story tells us that a university student saved himself from a charging boar by ramming a book of Aristotle's writings down
its throat. He then cut off the boar's head and brought it back to his college. |