Christmas Quiz 3

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Questions

Originally, in English, a student residence, preserved in Gray's and Lincoln's?
Name given to Christ when prophesied by Isaiah?
Milk/cream, sugar, beaten eggs, and liquor drink?
Verb tense neither future nor past?
Pre-digital video or TV screen 'noise' due to no/poor signal?
Beast of burden, Equus asinus?
Trumpet end?
Originally Old English 'haligdaeg', meaning 'holy day'?
From Latin, 'a spark', showy?
... Anise, used for aniseed flavouring typically in Asian cooking?
Seminal place, House of Flesh in Arabic, House of Bread in Hebrew?
Marketing/technology term for the busiest day each year for online shopping?
...thought, an old term for a wishbone?
Genus ilex?
Conducted mission of preaching and healing, with reported miracles, in Palestine, c.28-30AD?
Pleased proud puppet?
A side in a contract or dispute?
Dwarf heather vaccinium yielding acid fruit?
Arabian and Bactrian varieties?
Very old 'logging' term, cognate with Old Norse jol?
Alternative name for the plant Sweet Cicely, from its Latin name?
Pre-1948 widely used unit of luminous intensity?
Widely used title of high authority, in English was orginally 'hlafweard', meaning bread-keeper?
Malaikah in the Qur'an, and Mal'akh in the Hebrew Bible?
Powdered wool or cloth in certain wallpapers?
9, 18, 22, 79 are significant?
... may be willing, but flesh weak?
White marking on horse's lower leg?
Dickensian metaphor, mean with money?
Gum Olibanum, from the tree Boswellia sacra?