10 Rounds Of 10 Questions
Round 1 - Mixed Bag
1. Who sang All I Want For Christmas Is You in 1994?
2. What is the name of the snowman that is brought to life by a magician's top hat?
3. In which 1822 poem did Clement Clarke Moore introduce the names that are now given to Santa's eight reindeer?
4. Which songbird of the thrush family has the ornithological name 'Erithacus rubecola'
5. Which popular Christmas song was originally written for Thanksgiving?
6. In which sport did Betty Snowball represent England?
7. Which 1942 hit song was used to signal all Americans to evacuate from Saigon in 1975?
8. What country is the world's largest exporter of Christmas trees?
9. Who starred in the 2000 film Reindeer Games alongside Gary Sinise and Charlize Theron?
10. What colour are the berries of the mistletoe plant?
Answers
1. Mariah Carey
2. Frosty
3. A Visit From St. Nicholas
4. Robin
5. Jingle Bells
6. Cricket
7. White Christmas
8. Canada
9. Ben Affleck
10. White
Round 2 - Christmas Day
1. Which singer, actor and comedian died at the age of 77 on Christmas Day 1995?
2. What did Johann Georg Palitzsch sight in the sky on Christmas Day 1758 for the first time on its expected return date?
3. Who received his first drum kit as a present on Christmas Day 1959?
4. People born on Christmas Day are born under which star sign?
5. Who became emperor of Japan on Christmas Day 1926?
6. Which country officially ceased to exist on Christmas Day 1991?
7. The founder of which chain of hotels was born on Christmas Day 1887?
8. Which American comedian and actor died on Christmas Day 1946 at the age of 67?
9. What did Dirty Den give Angie on Christmas Day's edition of Eastenders in 1986?
10. According to The Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551, how should you get to church on Christmas Day?
Answers
1. Dean Martin
2. Halley's comet
3. Ringo Starr
4. Capricorn
5. Hirohito
6. USSR
7. Hilton
8. W.C. Fields
9. Divorce papers
10. Walk
Round 3 - Christmas Carols
1. Who were "Following yonder star "?
2. Which words follow 'Silent night' holy night' in the well-known Christmas carol?
3. "Tidings of comfort and joy" are lyrics from which Christmas carol?
4. "In heaven the bells are ringing" is the second line of which Christmas carol?
5. Which Christmas carol contains the words "When a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel"?
6. How many different types of bird are mentioned in the song The Twelve Days Of Christmas?
7. Which Christmas carol contains the line "The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes"?
8. In which Christmas carol does one sing about chasing deer and playing with a merry organ?
9. Which Christmas song begins with the words "Dashing through the snow on a one horse open sleigh"?
10. "Tis the season to be jolly" is the second line of which well known Christmas song?
Answers
1. We Three Kings
2. "All is calm, all is bright"
3. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
4. Ding Dong Merrily On High
5. Good King Wenceslas
6. 6 (Partridge, Turtle Dove, French Hen, Calling Bird, Goose, Swan)
7. Away In A Manger
8. The Holly and the Ivy
9. Jingle Bells
10. Deck The Halls
Round 4 - Films
1. In which film does Billy Peltzer receive a Mogwai for Christmas?
2. Who was the star of the film The Santa Clause?
3. Jim Carrey first played Lloyd Christmas in which film?
4. Who plays a father who comes back to life as a snowman in the film Jack Frost?
5. Who played the title role in the 1951 classic Christmas film Scrooge?
6. In which 1988 film does Bill Murray play a character called Frank Cross?
7. Which well-known song and dance man appeared in the 1980 film The Man In The Santa Claus Suit?
8. Holly Golightly was the main character in which film?
9. Which Christmas film features characters named Bert and Ernie who gave their names to characters in Sesame Street?
10. In which city did the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street take place?
Answers
1. Gremlins
2. Tim Allen
3. Dumb and Dumber
4. Michael Keaton
5. Alastair Sim
6. Scrooged
7. Fred Astaire
8. Breakfast At Tiffany's
9. It's A Wonderful Life
10. New York
Round 5 - Blockbusters
1. Which 'R.K' wrote the Christmas day speech for King George V's first radio broadcast in 1932?
2. Mistletoe is a parasitic plant which relies mainly on which 'A.T.'?
3. Which 'B.S.' saw mommy kissing Santa Claus in 1953?
4. Which 'T.K.' threatened to beat up Father Christmas on their 1978 album 'Misfits'?
5. Which 'C.L.' was first used in 1895 for safety purposes?
6. What 'M.P.' is the Cockney rhyming slang for "eyes"
7. King Wenceslas of Christmas carol fame was monarch of which 'B'?
8. Which 'D.B.' wanted a Beatle for Christmas in her 1963 hit song?
9. What 'A.C.U.P.' did Elvis Presley receive in his 1957 Christmas mail?
10. What 'F.O.S.N.' takes place annually on 6th December?
Answers
1. Rudyard Kipling
2. Apple Tree
3. Beverley Sisters
4. The Kinks
5. Christmas Lights
6. Mince pies
7. Bohemia
8. Dora Bryan
9. Army call-up papers
10. Feast of St. Nicholas
Round 6 - Literature
1. Who wrote the well-known fairy story The Snow Queen?
2. Which of the gospels tells of the visit of the Magi to the baby Jesus?
3. Who was first mentioned in the 1821 poem The Children's Friend?
4. In which fictional land is it always winter but never Christmas?
5. Which author wrote The Father Christmas Letters?
6. Who wrote A Child's Christmas In Wales?
7. Who wrote How The Grinch Stole Christmas?
8. Who wrote the well-known children's Christmas story The Snowman?
9. Which reindeer does Santa call to be first in The Night Before Christmas?
10. In A Christmas Carol, what is the last ghost to appear called?
Answers
1. Hans Christian Andersen
2. Matthew
3. Santa Claus
4. Narnia
5. J.R.R Tolkein
6. Dylan Thomas
7. Dr.Seuss
8. Raymond Briggs
9. Dasher
10. The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come
Round 7 - Television
1. Carol Vorderman appears on which long running Channel 4 TV show?
2. In which TV show was Ivy Tilsley one of the long serving characters?
3. Whose Christmas Carol starred Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson?
4. In which Christmas special did the two leading characters dress as Batman and Robin?
5. Whose 1995 TV Christmas special was entitled Knowing Me, Knowing Yule?
6. Which TV family have pets named Santa's Little Helper and Snowball?
7. Who presented the TV quiz show Telly Addicts?
8. In which TV series did Shirley Jones play David Cassidy's mother before becoming his real step- mother?
9. In Red Dwarf, what was the name of the computer?
10. What did Mr Bean get stuck on his head when he was preparing his Christmas dinner?
Answers
1. Countdown
2. Coronation Street
3. Blackadder's
4. Only Fools And Horses
5. Steve Coogan/Alan Partridge
6. Simpsons
7. Noel Edmonds
8. The Partridge Family
9. Holly
10. The turkey
Round 8 - Pantomime
1. What is the name of the father of Cinderella and The Ugly Sisters?
2. What is the name of Aladdin's brother?
3. Which pantomime character marries Alice Fitzwarren?
4. In which Christmas pantomime does Robin Hood usually appear?
5. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Sinbad The Sailor and Aladdin all derive from which collection of Middle East tales?
6. In the original pantomimes, what were breeches roles?
7. Which wooden bat, originally used as a prop by the character Harlequin, came to give its name for a type of comedy used in pantomime?
8. Charles Perrault wrote whose book of Fairy Tales which included Puss In Boots, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Red Riding Hood?
9. Which famous clown pioneered the use of pantomime dames during the 19th century?
10. The last lines of a pantomime have two traditions associated with them - name either.
Answers
1. Baron Hardup
2. Wishee Washee
3. Dick Whittington
4. Babes In The Wood
5. The Arabian Nights
6. Male roles played by women
7. Slap Stick
8. Mother Goose's
9. Joseph Grimaldi
10. (Either of) They should be in rhyming couplets and they should never be spoken in rehearsal
Round 9 - Christmas Number Ones
1. Which re-released Queen anthem topped the Christmas charts in 1991?
2. Don't You Want Me was the title of whose 1981 Christmas number 1?
3. Which duo recorded the 1982 Christmas number 1 Save Your Love?
4. What was Jackie Wilson's posthumous number 1 at Christmas 1986?
5. The Christmas classic Merry Xmas Everybody was a 1973 number 1 for which group?
6. What was the first ever Christmas number 1 in the charts of 1952?
7. Who took Christmas Alphabet to number 1 in 1955?
8. What was the title of the first Christmas number 1 for the Spice Girls?
9. Which Christmas number 1 contains the words "Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time"?
10. What are the Two Little Boys called in Rolf Harris's 1969 Christmas number one?
Answers
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Human League
3. Renee & Renato
4. Reet Petite
5. Slade
6. Here In My Heart
7. Dickie Valentine
8. 2 Become 1
9. Do They Know It's Christmas
10. Joe and Jack
Round 10 - People
1. Joe Yule was the real name of which famous actor?
2. Which of Santa's traditional reindeer shares its name with a mythological god?
3. What did William Strickland introduce to Britain in 1526?
4. James Edgar first took which traditional festive job in 1890?
5. Which singer played a prisoner of war in the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence?
6. Which member of the Royle family went into labour at Christmas time in 1999?
7. In Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, who is Tiny Tim's father?
8. About whom was the song American Pie written?
9. Who is the patron saint of virgins and prostitutes?
10. John Rich played what part in the development of pantomime?
Answers
1. Mickey Rooney
2. Cupid
3. Turkeys
4. First store Santa
5. David Bowie
6. Denise
7. Bob Cratchit
8. Buddy Holly
9. Saint Nicholas
10. He coined the phrase 'Pantomime'
Merry Christmas
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