Do you know your mistletoe from your marzipan? Put your clever Christmas hat on with our Big Christmas Quiz.
Your whole family bubble can play. Write your answers on a piece of paper and award one point for each correct answer.
Answers at the bottom (don’t look until you’ve finished playing).
Good luck!
1 If written alphabetically, which of Santa’s reindeer would come last?
2 Driving Home For Christmas was a 1988 hit single for which singer?
3 The North Pole is located in which ocean?
4 What is the star sign of a person born on 25th December?
5 What colour are the berries of the mistletoe plant?
6 What is the name given to Father Christmas in France?
7 Name the Angel that brought the news that Jesus was to be born to Mary?
8 Marzipan is made mainly from sugar and which nut? a) Almond b) Peanut c) Walnut
9 Which country is said to export the most Christmas trees each year? a) Spain b) Canada c) Scotland
10 Peter Auty sang Walking In The Air in what film?
11 Which Christmas condiment is made from fruit sometimes referred to as marshworts?
12 What is the surname of the family in the 1989 film ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’?
13 In the song ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’, how many swans were a-swimming?
14 What is the surname of the family in Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’? a) Cratchit b) Hatchit or c) Matchit
15 “You better watch out, you better not cry” are words taken from which popular Christmas song?
16 London’s Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is traditionally given by which country? a) Switzerland b) Norway or c) Sweden
17 Who wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
18 Which Christmas carol includes the lyrics ‘…To save us all from Satan’s power, when we were gone astray..’?
19 The character Jack Skellington appears in which 1993 Tim Burton film?
20 In the inspirational 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life, what’s the name of George Bailey’s guardian angel? a) Clarence b) Arthur or c) James
21 What are the names of the three wise men said to have brought gifts to the baby Jesus?
22 Name Santa’s three reindeer that start with the letter D?
23 What Christmas item was invented by London baker and wedding-cake specialist Tom Smith in 1847? a) Christmas cards b) Christmas crackers or c) Christmas cake
24 From which country does the poinsettia plant originate? a) France b) Australia or c) Mexico
25 Who is officially credited as the author of Auld Lang Syne?
26 By the end of which date should all Christmas decorations be removed, so as not to bring bad luck upon the house?
27 The 26th December is known as Boxing Day and which saint’s day? (Clue: Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of……..)
28 If you add together all of the gifts in the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, you get 364 gifts, true or false?
29 What were the names of Jesus Christ’s earthly parents?
30 What is Scrooge’s Christian name?
31 Who discovered Christmas Island?
32 To which main city in Judaea did the Wise Men first go to ask where they might find Jesus?
33 Who had a Christmas number one UK hit single with “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in 1963?
34 A year contains 365 days so on what number day does Christmas Day fall?
35 Which British Monarch gave the first royal Christmas broadcast to his empire on Christmas Day in 1932?
36 Which hand-held Nintendo product was reportedly the most popular Christmas gift in 1989?
37 Which Christmas carol includes the lyrics ‘While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, repeat the sounding joy’?
38 The Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street is based in which US city?
39 In the 1971 novelty Christmas song, ‘Ernie’ was the fastest what in the west?
40 In Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol, who was Scrooge’s dead business partner? a) Bob Marley b) Jacob Marley or c) Joseph Marley
41 the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone what Christmas present does Harry receive in his first semester at Hogwarts?
42 What was the name of Cain and Able’s mother in the bible?
43 ‘Pigs in a blanket’ refers to small sausages wrapped in what?
44 In the familiar carol, what line follows ‘God rest ye merry Gentlemen’?
45 What line follows ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house’?
46 In which celebrated film does James Stewart attempt suicide one Christmas?
47 Which record was both a UK Christmas Number 1 in 1975 and 1991? (Clue: Think Queen)
48 Which duo dressed up as Batman and Robin to go to a fancy dress ball on their 1996 Christmas Day Special?
49 British Children hang stockings up for Santa, what do Dutch children put out?
50 What is New Year’s Eve called in Scotland?
Don’t look until you’re ready to mark…
Answers:
1 Vixen
2 Chris Rea
3 Arctic Ocean
4 Capricorn
5 White
6 Pere Noel (or Papa Noel)
7 Angel Gabriel
8 Almond
9 Canada
10 The Snowman
11 Cranberry Sauce
12 Griswold
13 Seven
14 Cratchit
15 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
16 Norway
17 Dr Seuss
18 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
19 The Nightmare Before Christmas
20 Clarence (Oddbody)
21 Balthasar, Melchior, Caspar (or Gaspar)
22 Dancer, Dasher and Donner
23 Christmas Cracker
24 Mexico
25 Robert Burns
26 5th January (Twelfth Night)
27 Saint Stephen’s Day (Feast of Saint Stephen)
28 True
29 Joseph and Mary
30 Ebenezer
31 Captain Cook
32 Jerusalem
33 New York City
34 359
35 George V
36 Nintendo GameBoy
37 Joy to the World
38 New York City
39 Milkman
40 Jacob Marley
41 An Invisibility Cloak
42 Eve
43 Bacon
44 Let nothing you dismay
45 Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
46 It’s A Wonderful Life
47 Bohemian Rhapsody
48 Del and Rodney Trotter (Only Fools and Horses)
49 Clogs
50 Hogmanay
How did you do?
30 and over – Amazing! You’re the icing in the cake, a real Christmas cracker! You’re the king of Santa’s rock and roll helpers! Are you Elfis?
20 and over – Deck the halls! You’ve been paying attention. Are you a mince spy?
10 and over – Frosted flakes and jingle bells, it’s time to go back to school and relearn your elf-phabet.
Under 10 – Were you stuck in the chimney when all the Christmas facts were being handed out? ‘Cause it soots you!
