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Trials and games will be played again in Ireland this Christmas, although this year they will involve players like Zoom.
Whether it’s with coworkers, friends, or family, a festive quiz can help lift your spirits in the run-up to Christmas, or even on the big day itself.
To help, we’ve put together 100 questions about Christmas. Yes, it’s true, 100.
They are divided into five groups: general knowledge, music, television and movies, food and drink and Santa Claus.
Each section has 20 questions with the answers immediately below, so there are no peaks.
Good luck and Merry Christmas!
Christmas test questions
General Christmas Knowledge Questions
1. What day of the year is Christmas Day 2020?
2. What animal brought Mary before she gave birth to Jesus?
3. Which world leader celebrates his birthday on Christmas Day?
4. When do the 12 days of Christmas begin?
5. In what city does the annual Christmas busk that includes the likes of Bono and Glen Hansard take place?
6. On what date will this year’s Irish final take place between Dublin and May?
7. Which country is credited with the beginning of the Christmas tree tradition?
8. What happened in the 1914 Christmas Day truce during World War I?
9. In what year was the first Christmas card sent?
10. What essential Christmas table item did Tom Smith, a pastry chef, invent?
11. In what ocean is Christmas Island?
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12. In what type of building was the baby Jesus born?
13. What is your zodiac sign if you are born on Christmas Day?
14. Who lives in Aras an Uachtarain
15. What gifts did the Magi give Jesus on his birthday?
16. Who is the Medical Director for Ireland?
17. What is December 26 called in Ireland?
18. On what date in December does Wren’s Day take place?
19. Which plant has bright red and green leaves and is sometimes referred to as the Christmas Flower?
20. How many ghosts appear in a Christmas Carol?
Christmas General Knowledge Answers
1. 360º day
2. Donkey
3. Justin Trudeau
4. Christmas Day
5. Norway
6. December 19
7. Germany
8. A football match between British and German soldiers
9. 1843
10. The Christmas cookie
11. Indian Ocean
12. A stable
13. Capricorn
14. 15.00 h
15. Gold, frankincense and myrrh
16. Dr. Tony Holohan
(Image: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin)
17. Saint Stephen’s Day
18. December 26
19. Poinsettia
20. Four
Questions about Christmas music
1. True or false. Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You never reached number one on the UK charts.
2. Who had a holiday number one with Lonely This Christmas?
3. What is the best-selling Christmas single of all time?
4. Which song (exactly the same song and artist) has been the Christmas number twice, 16 years apart?
5. Which band beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the number one spot for Christmas 2009 thanks to an online campaign?
6. Name the only two bands that have a number one at Christmas in three consecutive years.
7. Who was the only singer who performed the same line on Do They Know It’s Christmas? for Band Aid in 1984 and Band Aid 20 in 2004?
8. Which Christmas carol does this lyric feature: “The stars in the sky, look down where He lay, the little Lord Jesus asleep in the hay”?
9. Which Christmas hit single that tops the charts spent the most consecutive weeks at number one?
10. How many gifts in total were delivered in the 12 days of Christmas?
11. On Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody, who’s “ready and rock ‘n’ rollin ‘with the rest”?
12. Who was the only artist who added lyrics to Do They Know It’s Christmas? for Band Aid 20 in 2004?
13. What band with Shane McGowan plays Fairytale of New York?
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14. Which actress sang with Robbie Williams in her 2001 Christmas number one Somethin ‘Stupid?
15. Which animated movie features Aled Jones’s version of Walking in the Air?
16. Who was Christmas number one in 2018 and 2019?
17. Which Christmas carol tells the story of a Duke of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic)?
18. Which Christmas number one begins with the lines “Baby, if you have to go, don’t think I can take the pain”?
19. What would the other reindeer not let Rudolph do in the song Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
20. Which song beat Last Christmas by Wham! To number one in 1984?
Christmas Music Answers
1. false
2. Mud
3. Bing Crosby’s White Christmas
4. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen (1975 and 1991)
5. Rage Against the Machine
6. The Beatles and the Spice Girls
7. Bonus
8. Absent in a Manager
9. I will always love you for Whitney Houston (10 weeks)
10. 364
11. Granny
12. Dizzee Rascal
13. The Pogues
14. Nicole Kidman
15. The snowman
16. Ladbaby
17. Good King Wenceslas
18. Stay another day for East 17
19. Play any reindeer game
20. Do you know it’s Christmas? by Band Aid
Questions about Christmas movies and television
1. Who plays Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol?
2. When was Love Actually released?
3. What city is Die Hard set in?
4. Where do the McCallisters go on vacation when they leave Kevin at Home Alone?
5. Who dresses up as an armadillo in the Friends episode ‘The One with the Christmas Armadillo’?
6. Which actor played Kris Kringle in the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street?
7. What happens to Del Boy and Rodney in the 1996 Only Fools and Horses Christmas special?
8. Last year’s John Lewis ad featured an excitable young dragon. What was your name?
9. When was the last episode of Gavin and Stacey before last year’s Christmas special?
10. The 2012 follow-up to The Snowman is called The Snowman and what?
11. What does Father Ted Crilly win in Father Ted’s Christmas special?
12. In which 2004 animated film about a magical adventure at the North Pole does Tom Hanks have the voice of six characters?
13. Which EastEnders villain character handed his wife the divorce papers in the Christmas Day edition of the show in 1986?
14. Who did Nick save from a Coronation Street house fire on Christmas Day 2011? 1
15. Which president of the United States made a cameo appearance in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?
16. Who plays Buddy’s love interest, Jovie, in Elf?
17. Which classic comedy returns for a series of Christmas specials in 2020?
18. Which former EastEnders actress does Prime Minister Hugh Grant fall in love with in Love Actually?
19. Which actor made his first appearance as a Doctor in the 2013 Doctor Who Christmas special?
20. Which celebrity won last year’s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special?
Christmas movie and television answers
1. Michael Caine
2. 2003
3. Los Angeles
4. Paris
5. Ross
6. Richard Attenborough
7. They become millionaires
8. Edgar
9. 2010
10. The snow dog
11. The Golden Cleric Award
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12. The Polar Express
13. ‘Dirty’ Den Watts
14. Becky
15. Donald Trump
16. Zooey Deschanel
17. The Vicar of Dibley
18. Martine McCutcheon
19. Peter Capaldi
20. Debbie McGee
Questions about Christmas food and drink
1. What is traditionally hidden inside a Christmas pudding?
2. In which country is it now traditional to eat a KFC for Christmas dinner?
3. What fruit is traditionally placed inside a Christmas stocking?
4. What is the most popular vegetarian alternative to a turkey dinner at Christmas?
5. What name is given to the little bacon-wrapped sausages?
6. Butter is traditionally mixed with what liquor to make Christmas pudding?
7. What is the Irish word for toast and does it mean for your health and happiness?
8. Traditionally, in what way should ground meat be stirred just to bring good luck?
9. Stollen is the traditional fruit cake of which country?
10. Before the turkey, the traditional Christmas dinner included a pig’s head dipped in mustard. True or false?
11. What is “roasting on fire” in the famous Christmas song?
12. What is the fastest time to eat three mince pies?
13. In Tudor times, what did women who wanted to find a husband eat in hopes of finding a mate?
14. What country first introduced eggnog?
15. What fruit can be kept with the Christmas cake to keep it moist?
16. What would you traditionally find under the icing on a Christmas cake?
17. What can of chocolates often found at Christmas has ‘purple’?
18. Who served fig pudding in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol?
19. From which county can the famous postman who predicts the weather come?
20. What creature replaces the turkey on the Christmas menu in Hungary?
Answers about Christmas food and drink
1. A coin
2. Japan
3. Orange / tangerine
4. Toasted walnuts
5. Pigs in blankets
6. Brandy
7. Slainte
8. To the right
9. Germany
10. True
11. Chestnuts
12. 52.21 seconds
13. Gingerbread Men
14. United Kingdom
15. An apple
16. Marzipan
17. Quality Street
18. Ms. Cratchit
19. Donegal is where the legendary postman Michael Gallagher hails from.
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Santa Claus Questions
1. In what current country was Saint Nicholas born?
2. And in what year?
3. What was the original color of the Santa Claus suit?
4. Can you name the two US states with a city named Santa Claus?
5. What food and drink is traditionally left for Santa on Christmas Eve?
6. Name Santa’s nine reindeer
7. Which company first introduced the red and white Santa suit?
8. In which country is the Lapland house located, Santa Claus?
9. What is the name of the Irish postal service?
10. How many children does Santa give gifts to on Christmas Eve?
11. What two Santa’s lists do children usually go on?
12. Which country sends the most letters to Santa?
13. In what century was Santa given a spouse?
14. What is the largest gathering of people dressed as Santa Claus?
15. What did Santa confess to doing in this year’s Tesco Christmas ad?
16. What is Santa Claus called in French?
17. How does Santa Claus traditionally get into people’s homes?
18. In what year was the song Santa Claus Is Comin ‘to Town first recorded?
19. How many times is the name of Saint Nicholas marked in the poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas?
20. Who has an uncredited role playing Santa Claus, who stabs Nicholas Angel in the hand in the comedy movie Hot Fuzz?
Santa Claus responds
1. Turkey
2. 280
3. Green
4. Indiana and Georgia
5. Mince pie and sherry
6. Rudolph, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Donner, Prancer, Vixen
7. Coca-Cola
8. Finland
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9. A publication
10. 735 million
11. Naughty and nice
12. France
13. XIX century
14. 18,112
15. I could have gone on vacation
16. Santa Claus
17. By the fireplace
18. 1934
19. Four
20. Peter Jackson
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