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Favourite Christmas Quiz Questions

We've been writing Christmas quiz questions for neary 20-years and this is a collection of some of our more quirky favourites.

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Christmas Favourites - Questions

  1. Christmas 2004, the Royal Mail managed to send all the post intended for Ascension Island to another country entirely, but which country?
  2. Often featuring on Christmas cards, what animal is said to get its name from the Welsh words for ‘head’ and ‘white’?
  3. Which chocolate comes last alphabetically in a tub of Heroes?
  4. In a 1990 Christmas Special, Victor Meldrew mistakenly receives a delivery of 263 what?
  5. In 2008, the Royal Society of Chemistry declared that a Yorkshire pudding isn’t considered a proper Yorkshire pudding unless it is at least how many inches tall?
  6. What will often travel around the world every Christmas while staying in its corner?
  7. Chris Rea said he wrote "Driving Home for Christmas" when he needed to get home to which town?
  8. Who is the youngest solo musician to have a UK Christmas number one?
  9. The name of which panto character is derived from an inferior grade of green tea?
  10. Britain's only free-ranging herd of which animals are found in the Cairngorm mountain range?
  11. In 2011, the British Trust for Ornithology asked its members to suggest a collective noun for a group of robins. What was the winning word?
  12. In which popular pantomime does Robin Hood and Maid Marion appear?
  13. “The One with The Holiday Armadillo” is a Christmas episode of which series?
  14. Someone with ‘pogonophobia’ would be frightened of Father Christmas. Why?
  15. What word connects Lieutenant Nick Bradshaw to a traditional Christmas dinner?
  16. What was invented by accident when Austrian Erwin Perzy tried to develop an extra bright light source for use as a surgical lamp?
  17. In the episode "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", what object does Mr. Bean lose in the turkey?
  18. What name connects a rock band described as "the female Bon Jovi" and one of Santa's reindeers?
  19. In the Only Fools and Horses 1989 Christmas special, “The Jolly Boys' Outing" is a trip to which seaside resort?
  20. Christmas Jumper Day is an annual fundraising campaign in the UK and Ireland organised by which UK charity?
  21. As a New Year's Resolution, who made "a solemn oath about abstaining from plays and wine" in December 1661?
  22. Which popular Christmas carol, written by British songwriter Eric Boswell in 1959, describes Mary’s journey to Bethlehem?
  23. In Japan, the term “leftover Christmas cake” was used in the 1980s to describe single women over what age?
  24. Which drink is named after a London's gentlemen's club where it was first served by barman Malachy McGarry in 1921?
  25. First introduced in the late 1950s, artificial Christmas trees made from what material were the first to not be green in colour?


Christmas Quiz - Questions and Answers

  1. Christmas 2004, the Royal Mail managed to send all the post intended for Ascension Island to another country entirely, but which country?
    ANSWER: Paraguay (Asuncion in Paraguay)
  2. Often featuring on Christmas cards, what animal is said to get its name from the Welsh words for ‘head’ and ‘white’?
    ANSWER: Penguin
  3. Which chocolate comes last alphabetically in a tub of Heroes?
    ANSWER: Wispa
  4. In a 1990 Christmas Special, Victor Meldrew mistakenly receives a delivery of 263 what?
    ANSWER: Garden gnomes
  5. In 2008, the Royal Society of Chemistry declared that a Yorkshire pudding isn’t considered a proper Yorkshire pudding unless it is at least how many inches tall?
    ANSWER: 4 inches tall
  6. What will often travel around the world every Christmas while staying in its corner?
    ANSWER: A stamp
  7. Chris Rea said he wrote "Driving Home for Christmas" when he needed to get home to which town?
    ANSWER: Middlesbrough
  8. Who is the youngest solo musician to have a UK Christmas number one?
    ANSWER: Jimmy Osmond (in 1972 at the age of 9 years and 8 months)
  9. The name of which panto character is derived from an inferior grade of green tea?
    ANSWER: Widow Twankey
  10. Britain's only free-ranging herd of which animals are found in the Cairngorm mountain range?
    ANSWER: Reindeer
  11. In 2011, the British Trust for Ornithology asked its members to suggest a collective noun for a group of robins. What was the winning word?
    ANSWER: A round
  12. In which popular pantomime does Robin Hood and Maid Marion appear?
    ANSWER: Babes in the Wood
  13. “The One with The Holiday Armadillo” is a Christmas episode of which series?
    ANSWER: Friends
  14. Someone with ‘pogonophobia’ would be frightened of Father Christmas. Why?
    ANSWER: It's the fear of beards
  15. What word connects Lieutenant Nick Bradshaw to a traditional Christmas dinner?
    ANSWER: Goose (from the film Top Gun)
  16. What was invented by accident when Austrian Erwin Perzy tried to develop an extra bright light source for use as a surgical lamp?
    ANSWER: The snow globe
  17. In the episode "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", what object does Mr. Bean lose in the turkey?
    ANSWER: His wristwatch
  18. What name connects a rock band described as "the female Bon Jovi" and one of Santa's reindeers?
    ANSWER: Vixen
  19. In the Only Fools and Horses 1989 Christmas special, “The Jolly Boys' Outing" is a trip to which seaside resort?
    ANSWER: Margate
  20. Christmas Jumper Day is an annual fundraising campaign in the UK and Ireland organised by which UK charity?
    ANSWER: Save the Children
  21. As a New Year's Resolution, who made "a solemn oath about abstaining from plays and wine" in December 1661?
    ANSWER: Samuel Pepys
  22. Which popular Christmas carol, written by British songwriter Eric Boswell in 1959, describes Mary’s journey to Bethlehem?
    ANSWER: Little Donkey
  23. In Japan, the term “leftover Christmas cake” was used in the 1980s to describe single women over what age?
    ANSWER: 25
  24. Which drink is named after a London's gentlemen's club where it was first served by barman Malachy McGarry in 1921?
    ANSWER: Buck's Fizz
  25. First introduced in the late 1950s, artificial Christmas trees made from what material were the first to not be green in colour?
    ANSWER: Aluminium