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Kris Kringle · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:25 am Post subject: 12 Days of Christmas Quiz

1. How is St. Stephen's Day better known & why is it known by that name?

2. When was the first televised Queen's speech?

3. From where will the x-mas tree to be erected in Trafalgar Square originate?

4. In what year was x-mas first celebrated on the 25th December?

5. Maths! How many x-mases were celebrated between 1506 and 2006 (inclusive)?

6. What was X-mas #1 three years before Mistletoe & Wine?

7. In what two years was 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' x-mas no. 1?

8. Which female solo artist was born on Christmas day in 1971?

9. More Maths! How many presents are given when singing 'The 12 Days of Christmas' in full?

10. In the Christmas song 'Let It Snow' what was the weather described as?

11. What drink was adapted to become 'Egg Nog'?

12. How many sides does a snowflake have?

13. If you were given some frumenty at a Medieval Christmas party, what would you normally do with it?

14. What town is the setting for the x-mas classic 'It's a Wonderful Life'?

15. What are the names of the three kings?

16. One of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes takes place during the Christmas season. What does the tale hinge upon?

17. In Greek legend, malicious creatures called Kallikantzaroi sometimes play troublesome pranks at Christmas time. What should you do to get rid of them?

One or more of adjacent words in the sentence will anagram into a Christmas word or words.

18. Go score with this fictional seasonal character (7).

19. Hurl pod at this animal Christmas favorite (7).

20. No one can assault him in the Christmas season (5,5).

21. Stole item intended for Christmas decoration (9).

22. Rest, sing song, see a Christmas salutation (7,9).

23. Who was the first person to use electric lights on a christmas tree & when?

24. What country did poinsettias originally come from?

25. Who was Scrooge's dead business partner in "A Christmas Carol"?

26. What did Harry Potter get for Christmas in his first semester at Hogwarts School?

27. The jólasveinar, or "yule lads", are a traditional part of an Icelandic Christmas. What are they?

28. George Frederick Handel's great Christmas oratorio, The Messiah, was first performed in 1742. Where did the performance take place?

29. What is the name of the little girl in most versions of The Nutcracker?

30. What song does a caroler sing outside Scrooge's office?

31. "Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth" is Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in what language?

32. X-mas is a common abbreviation of Christmas but from what alphabet does this originate?

33. Who chose December 25th as the day of celebration for Christ’s birth?

34. Viscum album is the Latin name for what?

Cryptic Carols

35. The lad is a diminutive percussionist?

36. The smog-less bewitching hour arrived?

37. Do you perceive the same longitudinal pressure which stimulates my auditory sense organs?

38. Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully?

39. As the guardians of little woolly animal's protected their charges in the shadows of the earth?

40. That exiguous hamlet south of the holy city?

41. Who sang the christmas song `Driving Home For Christmas`?

42. What is the name of the dog in `The Grinch Who Stole Christmas`?

44. In which year did Alabama become the first American state to recognise Christmas as an official holiday?

45. What word associated with Christmas could be illustrated by `ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`?

46. Which country began the tradition of exchanging gifts at Christmas?

47. Christmas Island is surrounded by which ocean?

48. Finish the quote – “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of…?

49. In what year of the twentieth century did England experience its first white christmas?

True or false?

50. In the USA there is one town called “Santa Claus”

51. Victorian postmen were nicknamed 'robins' due to their red uniforms

52. The “X” in Xmas stands for the cross that Jesus died upon?

53. “Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat………” What comes next?

54. You all know Rudolph, but can you name the rest of Santa’s reindeers?

55. What is the title of Iveson’s arrangement for brass no. X? (X = the missing question number!)

What's the movie?

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