100 Christmas Quiz Questions with Answers: Easy to Hard

1.What do people traditionally put on top of a Christmas tree?

2.What colour is Santa’s suit?

3.What do children hang up for Santa to fill?

4.Which animals pull Santa’s sleigh?

5.What is a snowman’s nose usually made of?

6.What do we call the songs sung at Christmas?

7.On which date is Christmas Day?

8.How does Santa get into the house, according to the story?

9.What falls from the sky in a white Christmas?

10.What is the name of the plant with white berries that people kiss under?

1.In which town was Jesus born, according to the Gospels?

2.What were the names of Jesus’s mother and her husband?

3.Where was the baby Jesus laid after he was born?

4.Who came to see the baby first in Luke’s Gospel: the shepherds or the Wise Men?

5.What did the Wise Men follow to find the baby?

6.Name the three gifts the Wise Men brought.

7.Which angel told Mary she would have a son?

8.Which king asked the Wise Men to report back to him?

9.Bethlehem lies about ten kilometres south of which city?

10.What do we call the scene of figures showing the stable, often set up at Christmas?

1.In which country do many families eat KFC fried chicken on Christmas Eve?

2.Sinterklaas arrives by steamboat every year in which country?

3.In Spain, children get most of their presents on 6 January. What is the day called?

4.In Sweden, 13 December is celebrated with candles and a procession in honour of which saint?

5.In which country was “Silent Night” first sung, in 1818?

6.A traditional Lithuanian Christmas Eve supper (Kūčios) has how many dishes?

7.In Italy, which kindly witch brings gifts on the night of 5 January?

8.In Mexico, the processions re-enacting Mary and Joseph’s search for a room are called what?

9.In which large country do most Christians celebrate Christmas on 7 January?

10.Rovaniemi, the “official hometown of Santa Claus”, is in which country?

1.Which spice gives gingerbread its name?

2.A British Christmas pudding is traditionally set alight with which spirit?

3.What is eggnog made from?

4.Which bird is the traditional centrepiece of a British or American Christmas dinner?

5.What is the French Christmas cake shaped like a log called?

6.Which Italian sweet bread with raisins and candied fruit is eaten at Christmas?

7.Which fruit is traditionally found in the toe of a Christmas stocking?

8.Mulled wine is heated with sugar and what else?

9.Candy canes are traditionally flavoured with what?

10.What is the German Christmas fruit bread dusted with icing sugar called?

1.In “Home Alone”, what is the name of the boy left behind?

2.Which 1946 film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, who sees what life would be like without him?

3.In the animated film “The Snowman” (1982), what do the boy and the snowman do together?

4.Which Christmas comedy has a man raised at the North Pole searching for his father in New York?

5.Who is the green creature who steals Christmas in Dr. Seuss’s story?

6.In “The Polar Express”, where does the train take the children?

7.In “Love Actually”, Hugh Grant plays a Prime Minister called what?

8.In which 1994 film does Tim Allen become Santa after the previous one falls off his roof?

9.In “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, who is the king of Halloween Town?

10.“Die Hard” takes place at a Christmas party in which building?

1.Which Christmas song by Mariah Carey came out in 1994?

2.In the song, what is special about Rudolph the reindeer?

3.“Jingle Bells” was originally written for which holiday?

4.The carol “Adeste Fideles” is known in English by what name?

5.Who sang “White Christmas” in the 1942 film “Holiday Inn”?

6.Which duo recorded “Last Christmas” in 1984?

7.“Feliz Navidad” wishes you a merry Christmas in which language?

8.In “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, what is given on the fifth day?

9.“Silent Night” was first performed with which instrument, because the church organ could not be used?

10.Which charity single did Band Aid release in 1984 for famine relief in Ethiopia?

1.How many reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh in the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, not counting Rudolph?

2.Name any two of those reindeer.

3.Santa Claus is based on which saint?

4.Saint Nicholas was a bishop of Myra, a town in which modern-day country?

5.What is Santa called in Britain?

6.Which drink company’s adverts in the 1930s helped make the red-suited Santa famous?

7.What do many children leave out for Santa and his reindeer?

8.Which North American defence organisation “tracks” Santa’s sleigh every Christmas Eve?

9.What are Santa’s helpers called?

10.In the poem, what does Santa lay beside his nose before he goes up the chimney?

1.In which country did the tradition of the decorated Christmas tree begin?

2.Whose husband made Christmas trees popular in Britain in the 1840s?

3.The first commercial Christmas card was produced in which decade?

4.Which shiny Christmas decoration was originally made from real strips of silver in Germany?

5.Boxing Day, 26 December, is named after what?

6.Which English author wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843?

7.What is the name of the miser in “A Christmas Carol”?

8.The X in “Xmas” comes from the first letter of “Christ” in which language?

9.Advent calendars traditionally count down the days from which date?

10.Which British king gave the first royal Christmas radio broadcast, in 1932?

1.Unusually for deer, both male and female reindeer grow what?

2.How many sides does a snowflake have?

3.Which plant with red leaves, originally from Mexico, is a Christmas favourite?

4.How many days are there from Christmas Day to New Year’s Day?

5.Which of these is a usual Christmas tree: a fir, an oak or a birch?

6.What season is it at Christmas in Australia?

7.What colour are holly berries?

8.At what temperature does water freeze, in degrees Celsius?

9.Which Arctic animal turns white in winter: the fox, the wolf or the bear?

10.Mistletoe grows on what?

1.How many ghosts visit Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol”, counting Jacob Marley?

2.Which composer wrote the ballet “The Nutcracker”?

3.In which year was “Silent Night” first performed?

4.Which country gives Britain the Christmas tree that stands in Trafalgar Square every year?

5.What is the church service held late on Christmas Eve called?

6.Who wrote the words of “Silent Night” (“Stille Nacht”)?

7.Which US president lit the first National Christmas Tree, in 1923?

8.The word “Noël” comes from a Latin word meaning what?

9.Churches that follow the Julian calendar celebrate Christmas on which date of our calendar?

10.The famous Christmas truce of 1914, with football between the trenches, took place in which war?