After Christmas lunch and the Queen’s Speech it’s always a good time to put your feet up and relax.
The youngsters can play to their hearts’ content while those of us a little older will probably want to grab a little snooze.
But then, a while later, it’s time for board games, or charades, or another classic Christmas tradition, a quiz.
So we thought that we would provide you with plenty of ammunition in the form of 100 questions all linked to Christmas or events of the previous 12 months.
It’s all a bit of fun and if you get stuck, don’t worry, the answers are upside-down on the final page!
Good luck.
CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS
1 Which famous character was visited by the Ghosts of the Christmas past, present and yet to come?
2 Who was crowned King of England on Christmas Day in 1066?
3 Which country donates the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to Great Britain every year?
4 What line did Bono sing solo in Band Aid’s 1984 version of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’?
5 In which C S Lewis novel was it ‘always winter but never Christmas’?
6 Can you name the singer and title of the song that begins with the lyrics, ‘So this is Xmas, and what have you done’?
7 Can you name the two missing reindeer: Dasher, Dancer, Rudolph, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen?
8 Which department store released a Xmas TV advertisement in 2015 featuring a young girl looking at the moon through a telescope?
9 What famous carol is called ‘Stille Nacht’ in German?
10 Which female singer released a Christmas song in 2013 called ‘One More Sleep’?
CHRISTMAS CAROL QUESTIONS
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