Christmas Trivia Quiz I
Answer 21


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.

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