Christmas

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1. What is the capital of Christmas Island? Murray Hill The Settlement Paro Smith Point

2. Saint Nicholas was the bishop of Myra in Lycia. True False

3. Who wrote the song "White Christmas" for the film "Holiday Inn"? Jacobs & Casey Cole Porter Irving Berlin Rodgers & Hammerstein

4. In what year did the British government abolish Christmas? 1547 1847 1747 1647

5. What is the name of the department store that created "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"? Macy's Nordstrom Saks Fifth Avenue Montgomery-Ward

6. "Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth" is Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in what language? Scottish Gaelic Welsh Cornish Manx Gaelic

7. The Beatles have had four Christmas number one singles in the UK, but which was their first? Hello Goodbye I Feel Fine Want To Hold Your Hand Day Tripper

8. Xmas is a common abbreviation of Christmas but from what alphabet does this originate? Cyrillic Phoenician Arabic Greek

9. To which capital city does the city of Oslo give a Christmas Tree every year? Answer: (One word - Home of Trafalgar Square)

10. Who chose December 25th as the day of celebration for Christ’s birth? Pope Julius I Pope Damascus I Pope Marcellus I Pope Celestine I

11. In traditional Ukrainian houses a Christmas tree will often be decorated with a spider and web for good luck. True False

12. Two polish boys wrote a letter to Santa that now hangs on his Post Office wall, what was the letter written on? An ammunition shell casing A soda tin Birch Bark The hide from a Polish Red cow

13. In what year was the first printed Christmas card made? 1813 1843 1893 1923

14. "Viscum album" is the Latin name for what? Answer: (One word - Kissing!)

15. To the nearest ton, how heavy was the world's largest Christmas pudding? 10 1 3 7

16. According to a collaboration between Moët & Chandon and Heineken, how many bubbles are there in a bottle of champagne? 250 Million 2.5 Million .25 Million 25 Million

17. Who invented the Christmas cracker? James Gosling Rudolph Diesel Martin Cooper Tom Smith

18. How many reindeer are there in Clement Moore’s 1822 poem "A visit from Saint Nicholas"? 7 10 9 8

19. What country was "Good King Wenceslas" duke of? Moravia Hungary Silesia Bohemia

20. What was the name of Scrooge’s deceased business partner in Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"? Answer: (Two Words)