1. Which of Santa's reindeer shares its name with a high street store?
Comet
2. What was the pen name of author Charles Ludwig Dodgson?
Lewis Carroll
3. In which fictional TV series does Robbie Coltrane portray a Forensic Psychiatrist?
Cracker
4. Which country is partly in Asia and partly in Europe?
Turkey
5. Who was the last man to be locked up in the Tower of London?
Rudolph Hess
6. A group of which game birds is called a covey?
Partridge
7. What was the name of the medical soap based at St Angela's hospital?
Angels
8. Where did the Great Fire of London start?
Pudding Lane
9. Which actor and singer died on Christmas Day 1995 and was know as "America's favourite drunk"?
Dean Martin
10. In which James Bond film, would you find the character Dr. Christmas Jones?
The World Is Not Enough
11. In which European Capital City is Wenceslas Square situated?
Prague
12. What is the English translation of Santa's reindeers called Donner & Blitzen?
Thunder & Lightning
13. Is kissing under the Mistletoe, a Roman, French, Druid, or Celtic Custom?
Druid
14. In 1898 the first Christmas postage stamp was issued by which country was it the USA, Canada, Great Britain or France?
Canada - 1898 two-cent with the Mercator map - The next nation with Christmas stamps was Austria in 1937 with two stamps referred to in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue as Christmas Greeting Stamps
15. Which of these events did NOT occur on Christmas Day, Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in WWII, Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by four ghosts, King Arthur pulled Excalibur from the stone or Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor?
Four ghosts visited Ebenezer Scrooge
16. True or false, it is illegal to kill a partridge on Christmas Day?
True
17. Which word, associated with Christmas comes from a Greek word meaning 'we can act anything'?
Pantomime
18. Born on Christmas Day 1642, who became the first scientist to be buried in Westminster Abbey?
Sir Isaac Newton
19. Mary's Boy Child has been a Christmas No 1 twice in 1957 and 1978 - who for?
Harry Belafonte / Boney M
20. Survey Question - Top Answer Required - Name your favourite Sitcom?
Only Fools & Horses / Friends / Father Ted / My Family / Vicar Of Dibley
21. Which Year - Leslie Nielson and Priscilla Presley starred in the movie "The Naked Gun", The space shuttle Atlantis launched the world's first nuclear war fighting satellite, President Gorbachev announced that Soviet military strength would be cut by ten percent within the next two years, New Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto released 1000 political prisoners and n Britain, rock star Elton John was awarded damages of £1 million ($1.85 million) against the Sun newspaper for its libellous allegations about his private life?
1988
22. What do you fill in the morning and then empty at night, except for one night in the year when it is filled at night and emptied in the morning?
A stocking or sock hung up on Christmas Eve
23. Who is the only British comedian to have had a Christmas number one hit single?
Benny Hill
24. What one word can mean a gatekeeper or a traditional Christmas drink?
Porter
25. What did a London sweet shop owner invent in the 1840s, which were originally filled with sweets?
Christmas crackers
26. "Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by" is the second line of which Christmas carol?
O little town of Bethlehem
27. What is the proper name of most Christmas Trees?
Norway Spruce
28. According to the song White Christmas, in what city is the song set in a ) New York b) Chicago c) Los Angeles
c) Los Angeles
29. On what did Marley's ghostly face first appear to Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol?
A doorknocker
30. The name of which festive plant comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning dung-on-a-twig?
Mistletoe
31. English children hang up stockings for Santa what do Dutch children put out?
Clogs
32. What is the common name for the evergreen plant with white or purplish winter-blooming flowers, Hellebores Niger?
Christmas rose
33. In Armenia, the traditional Christmas Eve meal consists of what, fried fish, lettuce and spinach, square meat pies or broiled partridges with gooseberry sauce?
Fried fish, lettuce and spinach
34. What are all farmyard animals said to be able to do on Christmas Eve?
Talk
35. What is the British public's favourite Christmas day dessert, according to a poll by Country Life magazine?
Apple Pie
36. Which popular Christmas song was actually first written for Thanksgiving?
Jingle Bells
37. Which Victorian cook wrote a definitive guide to Christmas?
Mrs Beeton
38. Which tree does mistletoe usually grow on?
Oak Apple
39. "God bless everyone" are the closing words of which Dickens novel?
A Christmas Carol
40. What did Karen, Richard and Joseph have in common?
All carpenters
Tiebreaker - At present Norwegians have access to how many kilometres of marked ski trails? 30,000 km
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