Christmas Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to the Christmas Quiz; click here for the questions!

1. St Christopher; he is is the patron saint of travellers
2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Make the Yule-tide gay, From now on,our troubles will be miles away
3. Wade, they makes sofas
4. 1962, from the movie Girls, girls, girls
5. Apple, but also found on lime, hawthorn, popular, willow, crab apple and false apple
6. Comet, there is also Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen,
7. Rudolph
8. 184; a Partridge in a Pear Tree (12 times), Two Turtle Doves (11 times), Three French Hens (10 times),Four Calling Birds (9 times), Six Geese a-Laying (7 times) and Seven Swans a-Swimming (6 times).
9. 1952; George V. delivered his first Christmas message in 1932. After the death of George VI in February 1952, The Queen broadcast her first Christmas message. The first televised message was broadcast live in 1957.
10. Osborne House; After the death of her husband Prince Albert on 14th December 1861, the Queen decided to spend her first Christmas as a widow at Osborne House, and from then continued to spend the festive period on the Isle of Wight until the end of her reign.
11. 2004; The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
12. Sir Isaac Newton; he was an English physicist and mathematician born in 1642
13. Holiday Inn; Irving Berlin musical, staring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire who run a country hotel.
14. 1; Oh what fun it is to ride on a one horse open sleigh
15. 1935; Issued to British troupes stationed in Egypt for their mail home, however the first British stamp for the public was 1966
16. Henry VIII; he like to eat all sorts of meats and foul so why not turkey!
17. 6; All snowflakes are six pointed ice crystals
18. Mrs Cratchit; The 'copper' used to boil the pudding was used the rest of the year for the Cratchit family laundry
19. Pig; He is largely based on Leon Trotsky and he was most likely a Landrace pig
20. Post men; this is supposed to be why the Victorian's had lots of robins on their Christmas cards to symbolise the post men delivering good wishes.
21. Dick Wittington; he married his former master's daughter
22. 155 miles as the crow files; Bethlehem is a tiny farming village in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales

Merry Christmas

Christmas Quiz Questions

Merry Christmas

This year I was asked to write the quiz questions for the Village Old Fokes Christmas Lunch. So here are the questions:

1) Which of these Saints are NOT associated with Christmas?

a.      St. Christopher

b.     St. Lucy

c.      St. Nicholas

d.     St. Stephen

2)  Which Christmas Carol contains the line “Make the Yule-tide gay”?

a.      Away in a Manger

b.     Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

c.      Do You Hear What I Hear?

d.     Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

3) Which of these people is not a Wise Man?

a.      Balthasar

b.     Caspar

c.      Melchior

d.     Wade

4) What year was “Return to Sender” by Elvis Presley the UK Christmas Number 1?

a.      1960

b.     1962

c.      1966

d.     1968

5) On which trees will you get mistletoe?

a.      Apple

b.     Elm

c.      Mistletoe

d.     Strawberry tree

6) Which of these is one of Santa’s reindeer?

a.      Comet

b.     Moon

c.      Pluto

d.     Sun

7)  How many birds did my true love send to me?

a.      6

b.     12

c.      78

d.     184

8) What year was the Queen’s Christmas Speech first broadcast?

a.      1948

b.     1950

c.      1952

d.     1954

9) Where did Queen Victoria like to spend Christmas?

a. Hampton Court

b. Osborne House

c.      Sandringham

d. Winsor Castle

10) What year was the Boxing Day tsunami?

a.      2000

b.     2001

c.      2002

d.     2004

11) Which Scientist was born on Christmas Day?

a.      Charles Darwin

b.     Galileo Galilei

c. Isaac Newton

d.     Leonardo da Vinci

12)  Which was the 1942 Christmas movie?

a.      Holiday Inn

b.     It’s a Wonderful Life

c.      Miracle on 34^th Street

d.     The Nightmare Before Christmas

13)   In the song “Jingle Bells” how many horses pull the sleigh?

a.      1

b.     2

c.      4

d.     8

14) In what year were the first British Christmas stamp issued?

a.      1846

b.     1920

c.      1935

d.     1962

15)  Who was the first person to eat Turkey on Christmas Day?

a.      Queen Elizabeth 1^st

b.     St George

c.      Henry VIII

d.     Queen Victoria

16) How many points does a snowflake have?

a.      0

b.     5

c.      6

d.     Any number

17)  Who served up Figgie pudding in Christmas Carol?

a.      Fezziwig

b.     Mrs Cratchit

c.      Scrooge

d.     Tiny Tim

18) What is snowball in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”?

a.      Horse

b.     Pig

c.      Goat

d.     Cow

19)  In Victorian England who were nicknamed Robins because of their red uniforms?

a.      Fire men

b.     Police men

c.      Post men

d.     Yeomen Warders

20) Which pantomime character marries Alice Fitzwarren?

a.      Buttons

b.     Columbine

c.      Dick Wittington

d.     Jack the Giant Killer

21) Tie breaker: as the crow flies how many miles is it to the closest Bethlehem from Rolleston?


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