When Gran was alive, during our family gatherings we used to play Christmas games. Gran particularly loved general knowledge quizzes, but with 5 generations ranging from the late nineties down to a three year old, it posed something of a challenge. So each year I devised multiple choice questions and everyone played in pairs, which gave even the youngest a chance of answering correctly. Gran is no longer with us, but if you happen to gather in a multi-generational mash-up to celebrate Christmas perhaps this will pass some time between opening presents and tucking into the seasonal feast.
Many thanks for your support and company throughout the year – I hope you have a lovely holiday, whatever your beliefs and whoever you are celebrating with.
1) What was asked for in the Christmas song?
a. Two front teeth c. Three pairs of socks
b. Four DVD’s d. Five sets of smellies
2) What colour was Rudolf’s nose?
a. Green c. Mauve
b. Red d. Black
3) Where does Father Christmas live?
a. The moon c. Iceland
b. Greenland d. Lapland
4) How many sides does a snowflake have?
a. Five c. Eight
b. Six d. Twelve
5) In the Christmas song, who ‘are getting fat’?
a. Mothers preparing food c. Turkeys
b. Reindeer d. Geese
6) In the song ‘Rudolf the …..nosed reindeer, how is it described? ‘You would even say it…
a. Runs c. Glows
b. Blows d. Sneezes
7) In the song ’12 Days of Christmas’ what does my true love give on the fifth day?
a. Lords a leaping c. Swans a swimming
b. Gold rings d. French hens
8) Where do poinsettias originally come from?
a. Mexico c. Brazil
b. Peru d. Venezuela
9) What brought Frosty the Snowman to life?
a. A special knitted scarf c. His carrot nose
b. An old top hat d. His coal eyes and stone teeth
10) Who was the composer of The Nutcracker ballet?
a. Handel c. Bach
b. Tchaikvosky d. Mozart
11) Who was the first English king or queen to have a Christmas tree?
a. King Henry VIII c. Queen Elizabeth I
b. King Charles II d. Queen Victoria
12) In the song ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ what pudding is asked for?
a. Figgy pudding c. Plum pudding
b. Sticky toffee pudding d. Rice pudding
13) What was Joseph’s job?
a. Fisherman c. Farmer
b. Carpenter d. Builder
14) Which one of these is NOT one of Father Christmas’s reindeer?
a. Dixen c. Rudolf
b. Donner d. Dasher
15) Good King Wenceslas ruled which country?
a. Hungary c. Flanders
b. Czechoslovakia d. Bohemia
16) Where did the real St Nicholas used to live?
a. Lapland c. Greece
b. Turkey d. Hungary
17) What did Harry Potter get for Christmas in his first term at Hogwarts?
a. Invisibility cloak c. X-box
b. Book of spells d. An owl
18) What is the name of Tiny Tim’s father in A Christmas Carol?
a. Ben Sackett c. Bob Cratchit
b. Bart Hatchet d. Bill Scratchit
19) What drink was adapted to become the American Christmas drink ‘egg nog’?
a. The Scandinavian drink ‘Glogg’ c. The Austrian drink ‘Gluhwein’
b. The French drink ‘Lait de Poule’ d. The German drink ‘Biersuppe’
20) Who invented the Christmas cracker?
a. George Cracker c. Tom Smith
b. Thomas Edison d. Prince Albert
Christmas Quiz 2018 – Answers
1) What was asked for in the Christmas song?
c. Two front teeth c. Three pairs of socks
d. Four DVD’s d. Five sets of smellies
2) What colour was Rudolf’s nose?
c. Green c. Mauve
d. Red d. Black
3) Where does Father Christmas live?
c. The moon c. Iceland
d. Greenland d. Lapland
4) How many sides does a snowflake have?
c. Five c. Eight
d. Six d. Twelve
5) In the Christmas song, who ‘are getting fat’?
c. Mothers preparing food c. Turkeys
d. Reindeer d. Geese
6) In the song ‘Rudolf the …..nosed reindeer, how is it described? ‘You would even say it…
c. Runs c. Glows
d. Blows d. Sneezes
7) In the song ’12 Days of Christmas’ what does my true love give on the fifth day?
c. Lords a leaping c. Swans a swimming
d. Gold rings d. French hens
8) Where do poinsettias originally come from?
c. Mexico c. Brazil
d. Peru d. Venezuela
9) What brought Frosty the Snowman to life?
c. A special knitted scarf c. His carrot nose
d. An old top hat d. His coal eyes and stone teeth
10) Who was the composer of The Nutcracker ballet?
c. Handel c. Bach
d. Tchaikvosky d. Mozart
11) Who was the first English king or queen to have a Christmas tree?
a. King Henry VIII c. Queen Elizabeth I
b. King Charles II d. Queen Victoria
12) In the song ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ what pudding is asked for?
a. Figgy pudding c. Plum pudding
b. Sticky toffee pudding d. Rice pudding
13) What was Joseph’s job?
a. Fisherman c. Farmer
b. Carpenter d. Builder
14) Which one of these is NOT one of Father Christmas’s reindeer?
a. Dixen c. Rudolf
b. Donner d. Dasher
15) Good King Wenceslas ruled which country?
a. Hungary c. Flanders
b. Czechoslovakia d. Bohemia
16) Where did the real St Nicholas used to live?
a. Lapland c. Greece
b. Turkey d. Hungary
17) What did Harry Potter get for Christmas in his first term at Hogwarts?
a. Invisibility cloak c. X-box
b. Book of spells d. An owl
18) What is the name of Tiny Tim’s father in A Christmas Carol?
a. Ben Sackett c. Bob Cratchit
b. Bart Hatchet d. Bill Scratchit
19) What drink was adapted to become the American Christmas drink ‘egg nog’?
a. The Scandinavian drink ‘Glogg’ c. The Austrian drink ‘Gluhwein’
b. The French drink ‘Lait de Poule’ d. The German drink ‘Biersuppe’
20) Who invented the Christmas cracker?
a. George Cracker c. Tom Smith
b. Thomas Edison d. Prince Albert
Oh I love your quiz! 🙂 Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
Thank you, Inessa! I hope you had a lovely, peaceful day yesterday and that 2019 is a happy, successful one for you:)
Thank you! 🙂
What a fun quiz. Thanks for sharing it. I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas, Sarah.
Thank you, Laura – it is my pleasure to share it. I had a lovely, peaceful Christmas and hope yours was also enjoyable:)
Merry Christmas! 🙂
And you, Maddalena – I hope you had a lovely day:))
Hey, 13 out of 17! That’s not too bad. 🙂 Some of them were guesses, tbh. I had no idea where egg nog came from! Or that Queen Victoria was the first British monarch to have a Christmas tree!
That’s very good, Sara:). Glad you enjoyed the Quiz!
Great quiz Sarah, I got 15 correct. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you a healthy and happy New Year.
Thank you for your kind good wishes, Carla. Yes, I had a lovely Christmas and I hope you also had a lovely time and that 2019 is a happy, successful one for you:)
Fun quiz! I got a lot of them wrong, but feel like I learned quite a few things along the way. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, Sarah!
Thank you, Suzanne:). I’m glad you found the quiz enjoyable and thank you for your good wishes. I was lucky to have such a lovely Christmas and hope that 2019 is a happy, successful year for you:)
I love this – I’ll keep a note to use next year.
Lynn 😀
Delighted to be of help:). I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, Lynn.
I wanted to comment on the previous posts, but just could NOT resist jumping ahead to this one! 🙂
What a GREAT idea, making up Christmas quizzes that several family members from different generations could participate in! LOVE IT!! And this one was FANTASTIC!!
So of course I took the quiz, and got five wrong answers. Yeah, I need to brush up a bit on my knowledge of Christmas trivia. Lol.
Thanks for sharing this!! It was SO much FUN!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! According to Google, 2019 has already arrived, in Merry Old England!! CHEERS!!! ❤ ❤ ❤ 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you so much, Maria – I’m delighted you enjoyed the quiz. The nice thing about trivia quizzes is that if you don’t do very well (I got absolutely hammered last night by my sister and husband on a game called Nostalgia) you just shrug your shoulders and remind yourself that it is ONLY trivia:)).
I hope that you, too, have a happy, peaceful 2019, Maria.xxx
I love your Christmas quizzes even if I’m not too good at them. I’m looking forward to this year’s one – I hope you keep the tradition going.
Yes! I will be compiling a new Christmas Quiz – apart from anything else, we will be having a games night on Boxing Day, so I’ll be using it for that:)).
Looking forward to reading how it went! 🙂
It didn’t go down all that well with the clever-clogs in the family…
Or perhaps, looking from another perspective, it went down astonishingly well? 😉
Oh yes – I’m totally unrepentant:)). Everyone was supposed to work in pairs and I wanted to make it so that the youngest had as much chance of getting the answers right as the cleverest!