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Christmas - Quiz

Are you ready to take on the Christmas quiz challenge?   

1. What is the date of the midwinter Solstice?        

2. What is the common name for Ilex Auifolium?

3. In which Christmas song are the Boy’s of the NYPD  Choir  Singing Galway Bay?        

4. The name of which south African Province relates to Jesus birth?

5. Which Pope gave the Christmas message in 2024?

6. Name Cliff Richards Christmas 1998 single?

7. Father Christmas was based on which saint?

8. Where does Santa Clause live?

9.  Which Norwegian city provides Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree?

10. What is Scrooge’s  first name?

11. The mother of James I as born 8th of this month, Who was she?

12. What God did the Romans celebrate on 25th December?  

13. What was traditionally stirred into a Christmas pudding?

14. In which country was Saint Nicholas born?

15. Mincemeat in Tudor England was made of dried fruit, suet spices and what else? . 

16. Which German Prince popularised the Christmas tree here in 1840?

17. Name the parasitic plant Saxon name Dung on a Stick sacred to the Druids?

18. Which ballet features the ‘Sugar Plum Fairy’?  

19. At the time of Jesus birth which Roman province was Bethlehem in?  

20. Name the Iconic actor born 25th December 1899 who stared in ‘The Big Sleep’ with his fourth wife?

21. Christmas Island is the external territory of which country?

22. Kate Winslet & Cameron Diaz star in which Christmas film?

23. Which 11th Century King was crowned on Christmas day?

24. In the reign of which Roman emperor did Christianity become the State religion?

25. What language was Silent Night first written in?

26. Name Raymon Briggs book that was made into an animated film in for Christmas 1982?

27. Which grated spice is spice is added to eggnog?

28. What is the first name of the following actors born in this month - PLUMMER- LEE &- WALKEN?

29. What is another name  for reindeer?

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