What are Christmas tie-breakers?
Use our Christmas tiebreakers to settle your festive quizzes that end with the same score. All the questions have a Christmas theme.
Christmas Tiebreakers
- How old was Charles Dickens when his book A Christmas Carol was published?
- To the nearest hour, how long would it take the average reader get through A Christmas Carol at 250 words-per-minute?
- What's the total number of presents given out in the carol, Twelve Days Of Christmas?
- The deepest lying snow on a Christmas day in the UK was recorded back in 1981 when Kindrogan, Perthshire recorded how many centimetres of snow?
- What's the highest chart position for Wizzard’s 1973 festive single, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day?
- In which year did Henry Cole give us the world's first commercially produced Christmas card?
- How many UK Christmas Number Ones have featured the word 'Christmas' or 'Xmas' in the title?
- In which year was American actress Sissy Spacek born on Christmas Day?
- How many wooden blocks are there in a game of Jenga?
- How many Only Fools and Horses Christmas specials have been broadcast?
- The General Post Office stopped delivering letters on Christmas Day in England and Wales in which year?
- The Soviet Union was formally dissolved on Boxing Day in which year?
- James Pierpont wrote the song Jingle Bells how many years before it was broadcast from space when sung by Gemini 6 astronauts?
- The world's longest Christmas cracker was made by the parents of children at Ley Hill School in Buckinghamshire,on 20 December 2001. In metres, how long was it?
- Singer Annie Lennox was born on Christmas day, how old will she be on her 2020 birthday?
- According to the Quality Street website, how many million tins of Quality Street were sold in 2010?
Answers:
- 31-years old
- Just 2 hours
- 364 presents
- 47 cm
- 4 (4th)
- 1843
- Seven
- 1949
- 54 wooden blocks
- 16 Christmas Specials
- 1960
- 1991
- 108-years before
- 63 metres
- 66 years old
- 15 million tins