quizballs 73 - christmas and new years quiz - questions & answers
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quizballs 73 - free christmas and new year quiz - questions and answers for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes
- What is the chemical formula of snow? H2O
- US President Franklin Pierce introduced what to White House Christmas tradition in 1856? Christmas tree
- Which charity in 1949 was the first to produce a Christmas card? UNICEF (originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, now called United Nations Children's Fund)
- What red-blooming Christmas plant came originally from Mexico? Poinsettia (Euphorbia Pulcherrima)
- Brandy is made from distilling what? Wine
- What was Girls Aloud's 2002 UK Christmas number one single? Sound of the Underground
- Which famous comedy double-act partner made the first ever UK mobile phone call, New Year's Day, 1985? Ernie Wise
- White Christmas, a cake made of coconut, crisped rice and dried fruit, is popular in which country? Australia
- Quaid-e-Azam's Birthday is a 25th December celebration in which country? Pakistan (also known as Muhammad Ali Jinnah he is considered the country's founder)
- Who is the narrator in the 2000 film The Grinch Who Stole Christmas? Anthony Hopkins
- What was the cyclone named that hit Darwin, Australia, in Christmas 1974? Tracy
- Pine needles are said to be a good source of which vitamin? C
- Choirboy Peter Auty sang the film version of which song later recorded as a hit record by Aled Jones? Walking in the Air (from The Snowman)
- What drink invented by Francis Showering has a fawn mascot? Babycham
- What creature, noted for feeding on its berries, is linked by name to the mistletoe plant? Mistle thrush
- In which Christmas carol does this line feature: "Bring me flesh, and bring me wine, bring me pine logs hither"? Good King Wenceslas
- What is the birth sign of people born on 25 December? Capricorn
- The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus on or around 1 January celebrates specifically what happening to the baby Jesus? Circumcision
- Complete the famous rhyming line which follows: "At Christmas play and make good cheer, ... ? For Christmas comes but once a year (from Thomas Tusser's instructional poem A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, The Farmer's Daily Diet, written in 1557 - also the source of 'A fool and his money are soon parted')
- 'Full of Eastern Promise' is an advertising slogan of what exotically positioned chocolate product? Fry's Turkish Delight
- Which poem written by Clement Moore was originally titled A Visit from Saint Nicholas? The Night Before Christmas
- What was the title of the first Christmas TV special Peanuts cartoon? A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
- What celebratory receptacle is falsely claimed to have been modeled on the breast of Marie Antoinette? Champage coupe (or champagne saucer, more loosely, champagne glass - the flat saucery one, not the long thin pointy one)
- Which two states in the US have towns called Christmas? Arizona and Florida
- Which author and creator of Jekyll and Hyde, gave his birthday by formal deed to Anne Ide because she disliked her own birthday of December 25th? Robert Louis Stevenson
- What animal is the Scandinavian Christmas Julbock symbol? Goat (precisely a Yule Goat)
- Christmas Crackers was the first Christmas edition of which popular UK comedy series? Only Fools and Horses
- What song topped the UK charts at Christmas in 1957 and in a medley version in 1978? Mary's Boy Child (Harry Belafonte and Boney M, respectively)
- Which hugely popular actor was born on Christmas day 1899? Humphrey Bogart
- What British spacecraft was lost on Mars at Christmas 2003? Beagle 2
- What was Queen's 1984 Christmas single called? Thank God it's Christmas
- American cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited with creating the traditional image of which popular Christmas character? Santa Claus (Father Christmas)
- Jackie Wilson's re-issued song Reet Petite became the 1986 UK Christmas number one after helping to advertise what brand? Levi's (Levi Strauss & Co)
- What is the name of Dorothy Gale's dog in The Wizard of Oz? Toto
- Born Christmas day 1908, by what name was gay icon author of The Naked Civil Servant popularly known? Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt)
- What is a baby Turkey more correctly called, other than a chick? Poult
- La Befana is the legendary character who delivers Christmas presents to children in which country? Italy (Befana loosely means a witch)
- Who is the central businessman character in the film It's a Wonderful Life? George Bailey (played by James Stewart)
- In technical astronomical terms what is the duration of the winter solstice; an instant, a day, three months, or six months? An instant (in the northern hemisphere between 21-22 Dec each year; in the southern hemisphere between 21-22 June)
- What Christmas-time song did James Pierpont compose in 1857? Jingle Bells (or, One Horse Open Sleigh)
- What is the title of biggest selling Christmas single, globally? White Christmas (by Bing Crosby)
- Gwyl San Steffan is the name for 26th December (St Stephen's Day or Boxing Day) in which country? Wales
- Which actress singer who charted with Santa Baby and starred as Catwoman died on Christmas day 2008? Eartha Kitt
- What Christmas item takes its name from the old French word estincelle, meaning spark? Tinsel
- Who is regarded as the first Christian martyr? St Stephen
- Kiritimati, the first inhabited place to experience each New Year, is more commonly known as what? Christmas Island
- What Paul McCartney hit song video featured the First World War Christmas Truce meeting of German and British soldiers in no-man's land between the front line trenches? Pipes of Peace
- Who was said to have presented the baby Jesus with Frankincense? Balthazar
- In which city was the Salvation Army founded? London (1865, orginally the Christian Mission, by William Booth)
- When the Julian calendar was switched to the Gregorian calendar how many days were dropped? Eleven
- What drink advert launched the slogan 'The Right One' in 1970? Martini
- What is Virgil Hilts' nickname in the film The Great Escape? The Cooler King
- Before the tradition of hanging stockings up at Christmas what did Dutch children hang by the fireside? Shoes
- In which country is it a tradition to hide all brooms in the house on Christmas Eve? Norway (according to legend, witches would steal them otherwise)
- Who wrote the songs for the 1954 film White Christmas? Irving Berlin
- Which US President banned Christmas trees from the White House? Theodore Roosevelt
- How many courses are there traditionally in a Ukrainian Christmas Eve supper? Twelve (each one is dedicated to an apostle)
- In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, how many pipers are there? Eleven
- From what does the month of December take its name? Ten (Latin, decem - it was the tenth month of the early Roman calendar)
- What did Scottish students take from Westminster Abbey on Christmas day 1950? The Coronation Stone (or Stone of Scone, or Stone of Destiny)
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