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Christmas Trivia Quiz
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124 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Christmas Trivia Quiz has 124 questions: 44 easy, 49 medium and 31 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 124 Christmas questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Victorian postmen wore red uniforms and were nicknamed after which bird, which is why it's on so many Christmas cards?
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Robin
Card artists began drawing the bird delivering the post in place of the postman.
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Japan's classic Christmas cake is a white sponge with whipped cream, topped with which bright red fruit?
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Strawberries
It's in every bakery in December, and KFC Japan even packs a strawberry cake into its Christmas party box.
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Many people believe which drinks company gave Santa his red suit in 1930s adverts, though a red Santa was already common?
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Coca-Cola
Haddon Sundblom painted its famous Santa from 1931, but red-suited Santas were already around before then.
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Thanks to a 1974 ad campaign, millions of families in Japan pre-order a Christmas bucket from which fast-food chain?
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KFC
The slogan was 'Kentucky for Christmas!', and many Japanese grow up thinking it's an American custom.
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During the 1914 Christmas truce, British and German soldiers met in no man's land and swapped gifts. Which sport did some of them play?
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Football
Meetings faded out after Boxing Day, and by 1916 both armies were far less willing to repeat it.
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On Christmas morning, the changed Scrooge secretly sends the Cratchit family which huge bird?
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A turkey
Dickens's story, along with Queen Victoria, helped make turkey Britain's main Christmas bird.
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In Japan, Christmas Eve isn't really a family night. Couples treat it like which other holiday, booking romantic dinners weeks ahead?
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Valentine's Day
Christmas isn't a public holiday in Japan, so the big night out for couples is the 24th.
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Ukrainians hang little webs on their trees, plus ornaments of which creature, after a legend about a poor widow's bare tree?
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Spider
In the legend, the webs turned to silver and gold by Christmas morning, and the family's tree was saved.
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In A Christmas Carol, which sickly little boy makes Scrooge ask a ghost whether he will live?
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Tiny Tim
The changed Scrooge also gives Tim's father, his clerk Bob Cratchit, a pay rise.
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In A Christmas Carol, which ghost visits Scrooge first, weighed down by chains and money boxes?
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Jacob Marley
He was Scrooge's old business partner, dead seven years, and warns him three spirits are coming.
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Stuck in Scranton on Christmas Eve, Kevin's mum in Home Alone hitches a ride to Chicago in a van with what kind of band?
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Polka band
John Candy played the band's leader as a favour, shot it all in one day and improvised every line.
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Legend says a German choirmaster bent sugar sticks into a shepherd's crook shape in 1670 to keep whom quiet in church?
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Children
Historians doubt the tale; the name 'candy cane' only turns up in 1866.
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Which Russian composer wrote the Christmas ballet about a toy soldier and the Mouse King, which flopped at its 1892 premiere?
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Tchaikovsky
It opened in St Petersburg on a double bill with his opera Iolanta, and it wasn't seen as a success at first.
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Catalan kids 'feed' a smiling log in a red hat every night in December, then hit it with sticks on Christmas so it 'poops' out sweets. What do they tuck over it at night to keep it warm?
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A blanket
The log is called the Tió de Nadal, and the feeding starts on 8 December.
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Many Americans hide a glass ornament shaped like which green food in the tree, calling it a German custom that most Germans have never heard of?
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A pickle
It was likely dreamed up in the 1880s, when Woolworth's sold German glass ornaments shaped like fruit and veg.
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The X in 'Xmas' isn't lazy slang. It's the first letter of Christ's name in which language?
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Greek
X is the Greek letter chi, the first letter of 'Christos', and the short form is centuries old.
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Since 1966, the Swedish town of Gävle builds a giant straw animal for Christmas, and vandals keep burning it down. What animal is it?
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Goat
By December 2025, 43 of the 60 giant straw figures had been burned or damaged, despite guards and a fire station nearby.
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The oldest known Danish woven paper Christmas heart was made in 1860 by which fairy-tale author?
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Hans Christian Andersen
His heart has no loop to hang it by, so it probably never went on a tree; it's now in a museum in Odense.
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France's favourite Christmas dessert, the bûche de Noël, is a rolled chocolate sponge made to look like what?
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A log
It recalls the real Yule logs that families once burned on the fire over Christmas.
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In Alpine folklore, Saint Nicholas brings gifts on 5 December, while which horned beast comes along to scare the naughty kids?
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Krampus
In parts of Austria and Germany, men dress up as him for a noisy 'Krampus run' through town.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Christmas Trivia Quiz?
124. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
Can I play the Christmas Trivia Quiz with friends online?
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Do I have to spell the answers exactly?
No. You type your answers, and Braggit accepts close spellings, so a small typo still scores.
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