Round 1 - Who Am I?
In this round, you read out each clue then allow teams time to hand in their answers between clues. Teams can have just one guess as to the identity of the mystery person, if incorrect they get 0 marks, if correct they get the points on offer immediately before they handed in their answer paper.
10 points I was born on March 4th, 1948 in Ely, Cardiff, the youngest of 11 children to Jack and May Barratt.
9 points One day while playing cricket with friends, as one nervously was about to bat and made a few practise strokes he announced "And now, presenting…" a name which I thought would be a great rock name and was later to adopt.
8 points At school, I joined rock and roll bands including The Cossacks, The Olympics and The Denims
7 points I became a singer by default as I was too shy to offer my services to the groups on an instrument
6 points In the 1960s I became lead singer of my own band; The Sunsets
5 points In 1969 with our brand of rock and roll, we backed The Rolling Stones at The Savill in London
4 points In 1977, I met the rock impressario Jack Good who asked me to play the middle period of Elvis Presley's life in Elvis: The Musical
3 points While there, I met Freya Miller who was to become my manager from that point on after I signed a contract with her in 1979
2 points I got my first taste of British chart success in 1980 with Hot Dog, followed by Marie Marie.
1 point 1981 saw my first number one hit single, a cover of Rosemary Clooney's This 'Ole House. Since then I've had three other chart-toppers; Green Door, Oh Julie and Merry Christmas Everyone.
Answer = Shakin' Stevens
Round 2 - Blockbusters
1. Which GRYMG is the Christmas carol whose second line is "Let nothing you dismay"?
2. What BR was Christmas number one in both 1975 and 1991?
3. Which JS attempts suicide over Christmas in It's A Wonderful Life?
4. What CC has flowers that are either red or purple?
5. On the sixth day of Christmas, what SGAL did my true love give to me according to the carol?
6. What CI can be found in the Indian Ocean?
7. What IDJ gave Mike Oldfield a Latin hit in 1976?
8. What AL was born on Christmas Day 1954?
9. What IB wrote the best-selling hit White Christmas?
10. What FAM are olibanum and opopanax?
Answers
1. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
2. Bohemian Rhapsody
3. James Stewart
4. Christmas Cactus
5. Six Geese-A-Laying
6. Christmas Island
7. In Dulce Jubilo (Pronounced In Dull-Chee You-Below)
8. Annie Lennox
9. Irving Berlin
10. Frankincense and Myrrh
Round 3 - Christmas Records
1. According to Adam Faith, what was in a Christmas Shop in 1960?
2. Which rock band said Please Come Home For Christmas in 1994?
3. Which workman had the Christmas number one in 2000?
4. In 1986, according to Spitting Image, who was On The Dole?
5. Who performed White Christmas as 'Chalky' on the flip-side of his hit Too Risky?
6. Who sang All I Want For Christmas Is You in 1994?
7. Name the record taken to the Christmas number one spot by the TV show Pop Stars: The Rivals in 2002.
8. Which comedian was Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree with Kim Wilde in 1987?
9. What was the title of the theme to The Snowman, taken into the charts by Aled Jones?
10. Who sang When A Child Is Born in 1976?
Answers
1. A Lonely Pup (A Lonely Pup In A Christmas Shop)
2. Bon Jovi
3. Bob The Builder (Can We Fix It?)
4. Santa Claus (Santa Claus Is On The Dole)
5. Jim Davidson
6. Mariah Carey
7. Sound of The Underground/Stay Another Day - Girls Aloud
8. Mel Smith
9. Walking In The Air
10. Johnny Mathis
Round 4 - Christmas Movies
1. Who played the lead role in Scrooged - an updated version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol?
2. In which movie does Edmund Gwenn play Kris Kringle, a Macy's Santa Claus, who meets Natalie Wood who doesn't believe in him?
3. In which movie does Tim Allen become Father Christmas after he falls off Tim's roof and dies?
4. In which Disney released movie does Santa Claus get kidnapped and tortured?
5. Which family is featured in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?
6. Who played the Dad who needs to get a Turbo Man on Christmas Eve in Jingle All The Way?
7. What was the name of the character played by Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone?
8. Who played an outcast elf in the 1985 film Santa Claus: The Movie?
9. Which Dr Seuss character who "Stole Christmas" did Jim Carrey play in 2000?
10. In which film does Zach Gilligan get a Christmas present from his Dad that he can't get wet, can't feed after midnight and can't put in direct sunlight?
Answers
1. Bill Murray
2. Miracle On 34th Street
3. The Santa Clause
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Griswold
6. Arnold Schwarzenegger
7. Kevin McCallister
8. Dudley Moore
9. The Grinch
10. Gremlins
Round 5 - Winter
1. In which Austrian ski resort were the Winter Olympics held in 1964 and 1976?
2. Who was the winner of the ice dance gold medal for Great Britain at the 1976 Winter Olympics?
3. Which comedian would you associate with the Saint Bernard dog Schnorbitz?
4. Which chef had the best-selling book Winter Collection in 1995?
5. Which play contains the line "Now is the winter of our discontent"?
6. Which actress received an Oscar for her role in The Lion In Winter?
7. In which month does the Winter Solstice take place?
8. Wilf O'Reilly is known for which winter sport?
9. In the animal kingdom, what is the name given to the winter coat of the stoat?
10. Who wrote Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit?
Answers
1. Innsbruck
2. John Curry
3. Bernie Winters
4. Delia Smith
5. Richard III by William Shakespeare
6. Katherine Hepburn
7. December
8. Speed Skating
9. Ermine
10. Jeanette Winterson
Round 6 - Christmas Day
1. Who became Emperor of Japan on Christmas Day 1926?
2. Who resigned as President of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991?
3. An earthquake destroyed Mangua on 25th December 1972; it was the capital of which country?
4. In which castle was Britain's first Christmas Tree erected by Queen Charlotte in 1800?
5. In which year did British and German soldiers observe an impromptu truce on Christmas Day at the Western Front?
6. Name the president of Romania who, along with his wife was executed on Christmas Day 1989.
7. Name the actor Knight of the British Empire who dies at his home in Switzerland on Christmas Day in 1977.
8. On Christmas Day in 1085, King William ordered a complete survey of England - what was it called?
9. Actress Sissy Spacek was born on Christmas Day in 1949; in which Brian De Palma film based on a Stephen King novel did she play the lead role in 1976?
10. In which year did Queen Elizabeth II make her first Christmas speech?
Answers
1. Hirohito
2. Mikhail Gorbachev
3. Nicaragua
4. Windsor
5. 1914
6. Nicoleau Ceaucescu (Pronounced Nickel-Eye Chow-Chess-Queue)
7. Charlie Chaplin
8. Domesday Book (Pronounced Dooms-Day)
9. Carrie
10. 1952
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