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Christmas 2023 Quiz



Quiz Questions


  1. Queen Charlotte set up the first known Christmas tree in England at Windsor, in December 1800. Charlotte was the German wife of which king?
  2. Displayed in Trafalgar Square every year, which country has given a large Christmas tree to Great Britain since 1947?
  3. The first gingerbread houses were the result of which author's "Hansel and Gretel" fairy tale?
  4. The Puritans in England attempted to ban what in the 1660s because they considered it to be 'sinfully rich' and 'unfit for God-fearing people'?
  5. How much will it cost to send a standard sized Christmas card through the UK post in December 2023?






  6. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2023 is the year of which animal?
  7. Dr. Christmas Jones is a nuclear physicist in which James Bond film?
  8. "And the only things I see are emptiness and loneliness" is a line from which Christmas song that topped the UK Singles Chart in 1974?
  9. The angel Christmas tree topper represents which angel from the Nativity of Jesus?
  10. From the bible, the miraculous catch of fish took place in which sea?
  11. "Christmas with the Parkinsons" was a 1979 Christmas special of which sitcom?
  12. Carol Vorderman's birthday is on Christmas Eve. How old will she be on 24 December, 2023?
  13. Which company's advertising illustrations gave us the first images of a jolly looking Santa?
  14. Flying Fish Cove lies 1,600 miles northwest of which city?
  15. Which spice obtained from the bark of a tree is often used in Christmas drinks such as eggnog?
  16. Who wrote from his home at Down House in 1877: "we cannot decorate our Christmas hearths with the scarlet berries of the Holly, because bees were rare during the spring"?
  17. Which complex of commercial buildings in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, is noted for its large Christmas tree each year?
  18. The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a celebration of Christmas Eve traditionally from which country?
  19. Which modern-day marketing phenomenon dressed up as a tradition is said "to spy on kids"?
  20. In A Christmas Carol who was Ebenezer Scrooge's former business partner?
  21. What was spun from real silver and invented in Germany in 1610?
  22. Which popular boys' name comes from an old French word meaning born on Christmas?
  23. Which New York City author, born in 1783, is known for his cultural contribution to the American Christmas?
  24. Which British city's Christmas Market and Craft Fair is located in Centenary Square, Chamberlain Square, New Street, and Victoria Square?
  25. Which annual parade in New York City always concludes with the arrival of Santa Claus to ring in the Christmas holiday season?
  26. What first appeared in 1939 when the Montgomery Ward department store created a Christmas story for kids?
  27. The poet Robert Herrick, born in 1591, was the first known source to associate what with Christmas in his poem Ceremonie upon Candlemas Eve?
  28. Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas Day in 1899. For which film did he win Best Actor Oscar for in 1951?
  29. Britain's only free-ranging herd of reindeer are found in which mountain range?
  30. Which Christmas bread hails from the city of Dresden, where it was first produced in the late 1500s?
  31. Chionophobia is an intense fear of what?
  32. Which duo featured on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail for Christmas 2010?


Answers



  1. George III
  2. Norway
  3. The Brothers Grimm
  4. Christmas pudding
  5. £1.25
  6. Year of the Rabbit
  7. The World is Not Enough
  8. Lonely This Christmas (by the English glam rock band Mud)
  9. Gabriel
  10. The Sea of Galilee
  11. Butterflies
  12. 63
  13. Coca-Cola
  14. Perth (Flying Fish Cove is the capital of Christmas Island)
  15. Cinnamon
  16. Charles Darwin
  17. The Rockefeller Center
  18. Italy
  19. The Elf on the Shelf
  20. Jacob Marley
  21. Tinsel
  22. Noel
  23. Washington Irving
  24. Birmingham
  25. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
  26. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  27. Mistletoe
  28. The African Queen
  29. The Cairngorm mountains in Scotland
  30. Stollen
  31. Snow
  32. Wallace and Gromit