Quiz - Christmas Edition - Questions and Answers

 

 

 

For those of you who follow the blog and joined in with the Quiz on Tuesday I promised that on Fridays you would have the answers. 

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1. Food and drink

 

1.  True or false; before turkey, the traditional English Christmas dinner included a pig’s head smothered in mustard.

True

2. The red and white costume of Father Christmas was allegedly first introduced by which drinks manufacturer?

Coca-Cola

3. Which spirit is traditionally added to butter and served with Christmas Pudding?

Brandy

4. What is the name of the skin that hangs from a turkey’s neck?

Wattle

5. What would you be drinking if you had ‘Glühwein’?

Mulled Wine

2. Films

1. Tim Allen has starred in 4 famous Christmas films; can you name one?

‘Christmas With The Kranks’, ‘The Santa Clause’, ‘The Santa Clause 2′ and ‘The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause’

2. In which original 1947 Christmas film does Maureen O’Hara play the events director at Macy’s department store?

Miracle on 34th Street

3. Which 1998 Bill Murray film is an adaptation of  Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’?

Scrooged

4. Which 1993 film, based on a Tim Burton story, tells the tale of Jack Skellington, Pumpkin King of Halloween Town?

The Nightmare Before Christmas

5. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern played the two burglars in which Christmas franchise?

the ‘Home Alone’ films 

3. Around the World

1. ‘O Tannenbaum’ is a German Christmas carol – what is it in English?

O Christmas Tree

2. What is New Year’s Eve called in Scotland?

Hogmanay

3. The poinsettia plant originally came from which country?

Mexico

4. Christmas Island belongs to which country?

Australia

5. Which country traditionally gives London the Christmas tree for Trafalgar Square each year?

Norway

4. Art and Literature

1. Which famous Christmas ballet features the ‘Sugar Plum Fairy’?

The Nutcracker

2. Raymond Briggs original book was turned into an animated film in 1982, but what was the book and film called?

‘The Snowman’

3. In the song of ‘The Twelve days of Christmas’, what new gift was given on the 6th day?

6 Geese a-laying

4. “Twas the Night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…” What is the next line? (18 words)

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.

5.  Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol was originally published in what year?

1843 

5. Traditions

1. In which direction should you stir mincemeat for good luck; clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Clockwise

2. Traditionally what fruit is used in a Christingle?

Orange

3. Traditionally how does Father Christmas enter your house?

Through the Chimney

4. Traditionally how many candles are used in Advent?

5, 1 lit every Sunday for 4 weeks  before Christmas and 1 lit on Christmas day.

5. Traditionally how many days of Christmas are there?

12 days

6. General Knowledge

1. In which year was the first televised Queen’s Christmas speech?

1957

2. What was the name of Ebenezer Scrooge’s deceased business partner?

Jacob Marley

3. What is the star sign of a person born on 25th December?

Capricorn

4. Thomas smith created which Christmas tradition?

Pulling a Cracker

5. 26th December is known as Boxing Day and which saint’s day?

Saint Stephen’s Day (Feast of Saint Stephen)

Bonus Question: name all 9 of Santa reindeer

Rudolph, dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen, comet, cupid, donner and blitzen