Fun Christmas quiz
Funny Christmas quiz
Thirty light-hearted Christmas questions for grown-ups, every one of them true. Expect logs that poo presents, roller-skating churchgoers and a number one about a milkman.
A shortened quiz, to play solo
30 questions to play on your own, online. Type your answers and get your score at the end. No PDFs and no group play.
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- 100 questions, none of them on this page
- Question and answer PDFs, with answer sheets and picture round
- Host it live: a private game room, everyone answers on their phones
- Questions
- 30
- Rounds
- 5
- Difficulty
- Easy to hard
Round 01 / Strange but true
Strange but true
- Difficulty: medium
What did the world's first text message, sent in December 1992, say?
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Merry Christmas
Also accept: Happy Christmas
- Difficulty: medium
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented in 1939 to advertise what kind of business?
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A department store
Also accept: Department store, A shop, A store, Montgomery Ward
The American chain Montgomery Ward gave the story away as a free booklet.
- Difficulty: medium
NORAD tracks Santa every Christmas Eve because a 1955 newspaper advert printed the wrong what?
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Phone number
Also accept: Telephone number, Number
Children ringing to speak to Santa got through to a US air defence base instead.
- Difficulty: medium
Tinsel was originally made from thin strips of which precious metal?
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Silver
- Difficulty: medium
The first electric Christmas tree lights were shown off in 1882 by a colleague of which inventor?
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Thomas Edison
Also accept: Edison
- Difficulty: hard
What was "Jingle Bells" originally called?
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One Horse Open Sleigh
Also accept: The One Horse Open Sleigh
Round 02 / Around the world
Odd traditions
- Difficulty: hard
In Catalonia, children beat a smiling log called Caga Tió with sticks until it does what?
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Poos out presents
Also accept: Poos presents, Poops presents, Poops out presents, Poos, Poops, Gives presents
- Difficulty: medium
In Austria and Bavaria, which horned beast punishes naughty children at Christmas?
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Krampus
- Difficulty: hard
In Caracas, Venezuela, how do many people traditionally travel to early morning Christmas mass?
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On roller skates
Also accept: Roller skates, Roller-skates, By roller skate, Roller skating
- Difficulty: hard
In Ukraine, Christmas trees are traditionally decorated with ornaments shaped like what?
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Spiders' webs
Also accept: Spider webs, Cobwebs, Spiders and webs, Spiders, Spider web
A folk tale tells of a poor family whose tree was decorated overnight by a spider.
- Difficulty: hard
Iceland's Christmas Eve tradition of Jólabókaflóðið is a "flood" of which gift?
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Books
Also accept: A book, Book
Icelanders give each other books on Christmas Eve, then spend the night reading.
- Difficulty: medium
In the Czech Republic, which fish is the traditional Christmas Eve dinner, often kept alive in the bath first?
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Carp
Round 03 / Telly & pop
Telly and number ones
- Difficulty: easy
Which pink, spotty character took the UK Christmas number one in 1993?
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Mr Blobby
- Difficulty: medium
In 1980, a school choir took the Christmas number one with a song about which relative?
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Grandma
Also accept: Grandmother, Granny, Nan, Nanny
"There's No One Quite Like Grandma" by St Winifred's School Choir.
- Difficulty: medium
Which comedian had the 1971 Christmas number one with "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)"?
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Benny Hill
- Difficulty: medium
In the 1996 "Only Fools and Horses" Christmas special, Del and Rodney run through the fog dressed as which duo?
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Batman and Robin
- Difficulty: medium
Which channel has broadcast an "Alternative Christmas Message" since 1993?
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Channel 4
- Difficulty: medium
Winners of which talent show had the Christmas number one four years in a row from 2005 to 2008?
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The X Factor
Also accept: X Factor
Round 04 / Food
Festive food
- Difficulty: easy
Brussels sprouts are named after the capital of which country?
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Belgium
- Difficulty: medium
Which ingredient did mince pies contain in Tudor times that they usually don't today?
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Meat
Also accept: Minced meat, Mutton, Beef, Lamb
- Difficulty: hard
Which nut is inside the Purple One in a tin of Quality Street?
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Hazelnut
Also accept: A hazelnut, Hazel nut
It was a Brazil nut until the recipe changed.
- Difficulty: medium
In America, the "blanket" in pigs in blankets is usually made of what?
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Pastry
Also accept: Dough, Croissant dough, Bread, Puff pastry
- Difficulty: easy
Which turkey bone do two people pull apart to make a wish?
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The wishbone
Also accept: Wishbone, Wish bone
- Difficulty: hard
Kiviak, a Christmas delicacy in Greenland, is made by fermenting small seabirds inside what?
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A seal skin
Also accept: Seal skin, Sealskin, A seal, A sealskin
Round 05 / Daft
Daft but true
- Difficulty: easy
Which real phobia sounds like a fear of Father Christmas but is really a fear of confined spaces?
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Claustrophobia
- Difficulty: medium
In "The Twelve Days of Christmas", who are "a-leaping" on the tenth day?
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Lords
Also accept: Ten lords, Ten lords a-leaping, Lords a-leaping
- Difficulty: medium
What are reindeer called in North America?
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Caribou
- Difficulty: hard
Finland's Father Christmas is called Joulupukki. What does the name literally mean?
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Yule goat
Also accept: Christmas goat, Yule buck
- Difficulty: medium
Which furry talking toy, the craze of Christmas 1998, was later banned from US spy agency offices?
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Furby
Also accept: A Furby, Furbies
Officials feared it could record and repeat secret conversations. It couldn't.
- Difficulty: hard
In which country do people traditionally hide their brooms on Christmas Eve so that witches can't steal them?
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Norway
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30 questions to play on your own, online
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- Your score, answers and explanations at the end
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