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Welcome to the Christmas Music Quiz


Questions I

  1. On which singer's 2015 album was the song 'Every Day's Like Christmas'?
  2. Who had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 with their cover of Yazoo's track 'Only You'?
  3. Which Christmassy song plays at the end of the 1988 film Die Hard?




  4. Who realeased the 2011 album Under the Mistletoe?
  5. 'One More Sleep' is a song recorded by which British singer?
  6. 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas', was sung by Judy Garland in which 1944 MGM musical?
  7. In 2003, a week before Christmas three acts from the TV show Popstars: The Rivals occupied the top three places, One True Voice and Girls Aloud were two, can you name the other?
  8. Which popular 1963 Christmas song was written by Edward Pola and George Wyle, and sung by Andy Williams?
  9. Name the only act to have four Christmas number ones?
  10. Who was the first person to have a Christmas number one (Hint: It was 1952)?
  11. Who had Christmas top spot with Killing in the Name in 2009?
  12. Which song reached the number one slot twice, in 1975 and 1991?
  13. How many Christmas number ones has Cliff Richards' had?
  14. Which choir had a 1980 hit with There's No One Quite Like Grandma?
  15. Compete this acts name: 'Military Wives with ....'?
  16. Who has been top at Christmas eight times with various acts?
  17. Which Spice Girl gained a fourth Christmas number one in 2012?
  18. Who wrote Do They Know It's Christmas? in 1984 with Bob Geldof?

Answers

  1. Kylie Minogue
  2. The Flying Pickets
  3. Let it Snow (also known as 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!')
  4. Justin Bieber
  5. Leona Lewis
  6. Meet Me in St. Louis
  7. The Cheeky Girls
  8. it's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
  9. The Beatles
  10. Al Martino
  11. Rage Against the Machine
  12. Bohemian Rhapsody
  13. Four
  14. St Winifred's School Choir
  15. Gareth Malone
  16. Paul McCartney
  17. Melanie Chisholm (as a member of The Justice Collective)
  18. Midge Ure



Questions II

  1. Which Elvis Presley song was a 1962 Christmas number one?
  2. Girls' School was released as a double A-side single with which song?
  3. Which song has been a Christmas number one for two entirely different artists?
  4. Who had a hit with Answer Me in 1953?
  5. Who had a 1958 hit with It's Only Make Believe?
  6. Two 1960s Christmas number ones had a colour in the title, can you name both?
  7. Who was only 52 and didn't wanna die?
  8. Who is the youngest artist to have a Christmas number 1?
  9. Which group's 1984 Christmas number two was the biggest selling single ever not to top the charts?
  10. As of 2015, which are the only three Christmas number one's to have single word titles?
  11. Which nineties Christmas hit was a song written, composed, and originally sung by Dolly Parton?

Answers

  1. Return to Sender
  2. Mull of Kintyre
  3. Mary's Boy Child (Harry Belafonte in 1957 and Boney M. in 1978)
  4. Frankie Lane
  5. Conway Twitty
  6. Green, Green Grass of Home and Lily the Pink
  7. Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)
  8. Jimmy Osmond (1972, who was 9 years old with Long Haired Lover From Liverpool)
  9. Wham! (Last Christmas / Everything She Wants)
  10. Goodbye(1998)and Hallelujah (2008), and Skyscraper (2013)
  11. I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston)