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