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50 Questions
- Which country sends a Christmas tree to Trafalgar Square, each year?
- What fruit when stored alongside Christmas cake helps keep it moist?
- Who plays Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol?
- "Good King Wenceslas" is a Christmas carol that tells a story of a Bohemian king. In which modern-day city is Wenceslas Square?
- Which British group wished it could be Christmas every day?
- The Christmas Oratorio was written for the Christmas season of 1734 by which German composer?
- The November 1887 edition of Beeton's Christmas Annual introduced which character for the first time?
- Can you name the now rather well-known contestant who appeared in the Christmas Day 1983 edition of the BBC TV game show Blankety Blank?
- In which country is it traditional to have a KFC meal on Christmas Day?
- Which retailer's 2014 Christmas advert featured the story of Christmas Day in 1914, when German and British soldiers called a truce to play football and exchange gifts?
- Which British city annually hosts the largest German Christmas Market outside of Germany and Austria?
- What time is the Queen’s speech traditionally broadcast?
- With 'over 30 sayings', what was the must have toy for Christmas 1996?
- Can you solve the following festive anagram: Drastic charms?
- In which country did the tradition of Christmas trees first begin?
- Traditionally, what name was given to the Sunday when families gather together in the kitchen of their homes to mix and steam Christmas pudding?
- Which Christmas carol sung by Bing Crosby is the third best-selling single of all-time?
- Which 2004 Christmas comedy film is based on the John Grisham novel Skipping Christmas?
- Which American actor, Oscar winner and cultural icon was born on Christmas Day in 1899?
- What is the French word for Christmas?
- In the popular Christmas movie Home Alone, to which country did Kevin's parents go on holiday?
- Invented in Nuremberg around 1610, what has individual parts called lametta?
- What first appeared in a 1939 booklet written by Robert May?
- Which Italian artist painted The Mystical Nativity? The artist's name means "little barrel".
- Which two Muppets from Sesame Street share their names with the policeman and the taxicab driver in the film It's a Wonderful Life?
- The Christmas favourite of 'Piggies in Blankets' is chipolata sausages wrapped in what?
- In October 2012, Merry Christmas, Baby was the first Christmas album by which London born singer-songwriter?
- Which American state's Spanish translation means 'covered in snow'?
- What are you eating if you are enjoying 'March Bread'?
- Name Scrooge's dead business partner in A Christmas Carol?
- What sort of animal is Snowball in George Orwell's Animal Farm?
- Which single was a UK Christmas number one in both 1975 and 1991?
- In Victorian England who were nicknamed robins because of their red uniforms?
- Which Christmas plant takes its name from the first US Minister to Mexico?
- How many Christmas number one singles have the Spice Girls achieved?
- In which pantomime does Wishee Washee appear?
- In 1847 what did Tom Smith, a London confectioner, invent?
- Bethlehem is a tiny village in which UK country?
- Who composed 'Auld Lang Syne'?
- "Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?" is the first line to which Christmas song?
- In which pantomime would you find the character King Rat?
- Patra, the birthplace of the original Santa Claus, St Nicholas, is in which modern country?
- If you were born on Christmas Day, what's your star sign?
- 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents' is the opening line from which classic novel?
- The song White Christmas was first performed in which Bing Crosby film?
- Which monarch was crowned on Christmas Day in Westminster Abbey?
- In 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas', what were there eight of?
- 'Driving Home For Christmas' was a hit single for which singer in 1988?
- What colour are the berries of the European mistletoe plant?
- Who, with a 1990s UK Christmas Singles Chart hit, will star in The Chrysalis Theatre, Milton Keynes' pantomime Peter Pan in December 2021?
Answers:
- Norway
- Apple
- Michael Caine
- Prague
- Wizzard
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Sherlock Holmes (or Doctor Watson)
- Captain Sir Tom Moore
- Japan
- Sainsbury's
- Birmingham
- 3pm
- Buzz Lightyear
- Christmas card (solved anagram question)
- Germany
- Stir-up Sunday
- Silent Night
- Christmas with the Kranks
- Humphrey Bogart
- Noel
- France
- Tinsel
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Sandro Botticelli
- Bert and Ernie
- Bacon
- Rod Stewart
- Nevada
- Marzipan
- Jacob Marley
- Pig
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Postmen
- Poinsettia
- Three
- Aladdin
- Christmas Crackers
- Wales
- Robert Burns
- Merry Xmas Everybody (by Slade)
- Dick Whittington
- Turkey
- Capricorn
- Little Women
- Holiday Inn
- William the Conqueror or Wiliam I
- Maids-a-milking
- Chris Rea
- White
- Mr. Blobby