1 Who will not be starring in Pantomime this year for the first time in
38 years due to his appearance on the recent series of ‘I’m A Celebrity…
Get Me Out Of Here!’ CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS
2 “It’s a cracker” is which comic’s catchphrase? FRANK CARSON
3 Which Christmas tradition became available as a podcast last Christmas THE ROYAL FAMILY’S
for the first time in its 74 year history? CHRISTMAS SPEECH
4 Which suburb of Los Angeles is often referred to as ‘Tinseltown’? HOLLYWOOD
5 Which rubber-faced star was having a ‘Proper Crimbo’ in 2003? BO SELECTA
6 Which bank holiday was so named because it was the day all the money
accumulated in church collection boxes was passed onto the poor? BOXING DAY
7 In which film did Jim Carrey play Lloyd Christmas? ‘DUMB AND DUMBER’
8 In the song ‘Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer’ the other reindeers wouldn’t
let Rudolph join in what? REINDEER GAMES
9 Which Arnold Schwarzenegger festive howler has been voted the biggest
ever Christmas turkey in a poll of 30,000 film fans? ‘JINGLE ALL THE WAY’
10 Which annual became the first to out-sell the Beano annual since the
1940s, shifting more than 270,000 copies last Christmas? DR WHO ANNUAL
11 A record 3.3million Britons will be doing what this Christmas? GOING ABROAD
12 Which ‘Holly’ won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1993 for her role in ‘The
Piano’? HOLLY HUNTER
13 Which singer, billed as ‘The Godfather of Soul’ died last Christmas day at
the age of 73? JAMES BROWN
14 Which Oscar winner played Scrooge in "The Muppets Christmas Carol"? MICHAEL CAINE
15 What was the name of the first ghost that visited Scrooge in ‘A Christmas
Carol’? JACOB MARLEY
16 Which saint’s day follows Christmas Day? ST STEPHEN’S DAY
17 Which actor played a police officer in the video of the Pogues Christmas
classic ‘A Fairytale of New York’? MATT DILLON
18 What is the name of the horse in the song ‘Jingle Bells’? BOBTAIL
19 Which TV show has had the best-selling calendar for 2008? ‘HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL’
20 Which was the last girl group to have a Christmas No.1 single? GIRLS ALOUD (‘Sound Of
The Underground’ 2002)
21 Health and safety have stepped-in and warned pantomime stars not to
throw what into the audience during shows this Christmas? SWEETS
22 What was the name of East 17’s Christmas chart-topper? ‘STAY ANOTHER DAY’
23 What is the most common item found in a Christmas cracker? PAPER HAT
24 What was the name Jona Lewie’s Christmas single? ‘STOP THE CAVALRY’
25 ‘Santa’s brother is coming to town’ is the tag line of which current film? ‘FRED CLAUS’
26 Which Christmas Carol contains the line ‘Come and behold him, born
the King of Angels’? ‘O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL’
27 What did Greg Lake ‘Believe In’ according to his 1975 Christmas single? FATHER CHRISTMAS
28 What word generally associated with Christmas, comes from the Greek
word meaning we can act anything? PANTOMIME
29 ‘Just like the ones we used to know’ is a line from which Christmas song? ‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’
30 In the pantomime, what is Aladdin’s surname? TWANKEY
31 Which 1946 film starring James Stewart as a suicidal man saved by an
angel’s visit, was recently voted the best Christmas film? ‘A WONDERFUL LIFE’
32 WIAWW are the initials of which Christmas song? ‘WALKING IN A WINTER
WONDERLAND’
33 The modern tradition of Christmas trees is believed to have started in
which European country? GERMANY
34 What was stolen from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950? THE STONE OF SCONE
35 On which day were six geese a laying in the song ‘The Twelve Days of
Christmas’? THE SIXTH DAY
36 Tom Smith invented which popular Christmas item in 1847? CHRISTMAS CRACKER
37 Boas Festas is Happy Christmas in which language? PORTUGUESE
38 If you were born on Christmas Day what would your star sign be? CAPRICORN
39 At which racecouse will the King George VI chase take place on Boxing
Day? KEMPTON PARK
40 Llex is the scientific name for which traditional Christmas foliage? HOLLY
TB Scientists have calculated that Santa would have to visit how many homes
per second to deliver to all the world’s homes on Christmas Eve? 822
SB In feet, what was the height of the world’s tallest snowman that was built
by residents of Maine, USA in 1999? 113
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