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Whether you’re planning on putting together a Christmas quiz for your friends and family to enjoy after your Christmas dinner, or you want to get a leg-up on the competition at your local pub quiz, you’re in the right place. We’ve got four rounds of the best Christmas quiz questions: each round has ten questions, and ten answers are found below the questions - so no cheating! Below you will find a mix of easy, difficult, family-friendly and alternative questions on Food and Drink, Film and TV, Christmas carols and History. Have a go at our fun Christmas quiz. These are 40 of the best Christmas quiz questions - how many can you answer correctly?
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Round 1 - Food and drink
Questions:
1 - In which country is it tradition to eat KFC for Christmas dinner?
2 - What item is traditionally hidden in a Christmas pudding?
3 - In the first-ever commercially produced Christmas cards, children are pictured drinking a surprising festive beverage - what is it?
4 - How many different types of sweets are there in a standard box of Quality Street?
5 - In Tudor times, single women believed eating a festive treat would help them find a husband - which treat was it?
6 - Which way are you meant to stir your mincemeat, Christmas cake and Christmas pudding for good luck?
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7 - In a 2006 TV special, Nigella Lawson stunned viewers with the surprising way she prepares her turkey to guarantee it stays moist. What was it?
8 - What is normally served as pudding on Christmas Day in Scotland?
9 - Leah Shutkever holds the world record for the fastest time to eat three of which Christmas item? (She managed the impressive feat in 52.21 seconds, on September 25, 2019)
10 - Which fruit is traditionally put in a Christmas stocking?
Answers:
1 - Japan
2 - A coin
3 - Wine!
4 - 12: The Purple One, The Green Triangle, Coconut Eclair, Orange Chocolate Crunch, Toffee Deluxe, Fudge, Milk Choc Block, Toffee Penny, Caramel Swirl, Strawberry Delight, Orange Creme.
5 - A gingerbread man
6 - Clockwise
7 - Leave it in a bucket of water overnight
8 - Clootie Dumplings
9 - She ate three mince pies in under a minute.
10 - An orange/tangerine/satsuma
Round 2 - Christmas songs
Questions:
1 - In total, how many Christmas gifts are given in the Christmas carol ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’?
2 - A social media campaign managed to usurp the Christmas Number One spot in 2009 with a surprising choice of song, what was the song?
3 - Which Queen song has been Christmas number one twice?
4 - Who has Elton John teamed up with this year for a Christmas hit?
5 - Which Christmas song, first released in 1994, reached Christmas number
6 - How many ‘la’s follow the ‘fa’ in the chorus of Deck the Halls?
7 - In the song ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’, the carollers won’t leave until they get some: What do they want?
8 - In what song is Father Christmas asked for “a ‘54 convertible”, “a yacht” and “the deed to a platinum mine”?
9 - Who co-wrote Do They Know It’s Christmas with Bob Geldof in 1984?
10 - Which British artist has a whopping eight Christmas number ones under their belt, with different acts?
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General knowledge quiz: Best of 2021
Enjoyed this quiz? Test your general knowledge even further and have a go at Express.co.uk's best of 2021 quiz here!
Answers:
1 - 364
2 - Killing In The Name Of, by Rage against the Machine
3 - Bohemian Rhapsody
4 - Ed Sheeran
5 - All I Want For Christmas Is You, by Mariah Carey
6 - Eight: Falalalalalalalala….
7 - Figgy pudding
8 - Santa Baby
9 - Midge Ure
10 - Sir Paul McCartney
Round 3 - Film and TV
Questions:
1 - Who proposes to who in the 2008 Gavin & Stacey Christmas special?
2 - How old is Kevin McAllister (played by Macauley Culkin) in Home Alone?
3 - In everyone’s favourite Christmas Rom Com, Love Actually, what song is Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) trying to get to Christmas Number One?
4 - In the classic Vicar of Dibley Christmas special ‘The Christmas Lunch Incident’, how many Christmas dinners does Geraldine Granger have to eat?
5 - Arguably a Christmas movie, in which city is the film Die Hard set?
6 - What is the name of the reindeer in Frozen?
7 - Which famous TV family has a dog called Santa’s Little Helper?
8 - After watching Downton Abbey’s 2012 Christmas special, viewers were devastated by the death of which character?
9 - What do Excitable Edgar and Monty the Penguin have in common?
10 - Which English actor joins Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy for a starring role in The Muppets Christmas Carol?
Answers:
1 - Dave, Dave Coaches, proposes to Nessa.
2 - 8
3 - Christmas is all around
4 - Four Christmas lunches
5 - Los Angeles
6 - Sven
7 - The Simpsons
8 - Matthew Crawley
9 - Both are stars of previous John Lewis adverts
10 - Michael Caine
Round 4 - History
Questions:
1 - Which monarch delivered the first Christmas Day message on the radio?
2 - Which country began the tradition of the Christmas tree?
3 - On Christmas Day 1914, British and German soldiers in the trenches initiated an unofficial ceasefire. What activity were British and German soldiers reported to share in No Man’s Land?
4 - Which of Shakespeare’s plays was written as a Christmas gift for Elizabeth I?
5 - Who banned Christmas carols after the English Civil War in 1647?
6 - What date in January should all your Christmas decorations come down by, according to tradition?
7 - Who was crowned King of England on December 25, 1066?
8 - In which modern-day country was St. Nicholas born in?
9 - What beverage company is credited with changing the colour of Santa’s suit from green to red, since he first started appearing in their advertising from 1931?
10 - East End baker Tom Smith invented an item in 1847 which is now a staple on the table at Christmas dinner - what is it?
Answers:
1 - George V in 1932 - for a bonus, the speech was written by Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book.
2 - Germany
3 - A game of football
4 - The Merry Wives of Windsor
5 - Oliver Cromwell
6 - January 5
7 - William the Conqueror
8 - Turkey, in the year 280
9 - Coca-Cola
10 - Christmas crackers!