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Christmas Crackers Trivia Quiz

Christmas is among the jolliest of holiday seasons. So as you and your family are gathering around the Yule log, test your Christmas knowledge and try my quiz.

A multiple-choice quiz by clementine2011. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
clementine2011

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
336,914

Updated
Jan 29 22

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10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which Leith printer produced the first "Yuletide card", in 1841, five years before the first commercially produced Christmas card? Hint

John Potts

George Mason

Henry Brooks

Charles Drummond

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Question 2 of 10

2. In Italian tradition, what is the name of the woman who fills children's Christmas stockings with gifts on the eve of Epiphany (Twelfth Night)? Hint

Il donatore

La Befana

Babbo Natale

Natale Fata

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which Christmas carol was written for guitar music on Christmas Eve, 1818, in Austria by the musician Franz Gruber and the poet-priest Joseph Mohr? Hint

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Little Donkey

O Holy Night

Silent Night

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Question 4 of 10

4. A drinking fountain in Finsbury Square, London, commemorates Tom Smith, who invented which Christmas commodity there in 1847? Hint

Fairy Lights

Tinsel

Nutcracker

Christmas Cracker

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Question 5 of 10

5. In his poem A Visit from St Nicholas, what names did Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) gave to Santa's eight reindeer? Hint

Rudolph, Comet, Cupid. Dancer, Dasher, Donner, Prancer and Vixen

Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donder, Prancer and Vixen

Blixem, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donner, Prancer and Vixen

Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donna , Prancer and Vixen

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which fourth-century "Christmas saint" is the patron saint of pawnbrokers, sailors, scholars, thieves and unmarried girls? Hint

St Stephen

St Lucia

St Nicholas

St Basil

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Question 7 of 10

7. With which English city are the words of this Christmas carol associated?
Lullay,thou little tiny child,
By-bye lully, lullay.
Lullay,thou little tiny child,
By-bye lully, lullay. Hint

Coventry

Lichfield

London

York

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Question 8 of 10

8. In the biblical accounts of the Nativity, which pregnant kinswoman did Mary visit soon after the Annunciation? Hint

Hannah

Rebekah

Naomi

Elizabeth

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Question 9 of 10

9. In what do Italians traditionally put their presents on Christmas Eve? Hint

The Cup of Fate

The Urn of Fate

The Bowl of Fate

The Vase of Fate

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Question 10 of 10

10. In which Cambridge College has the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols been held every Christmas Eve since 1918? Hint

Canterbury College

Cambridge Regional College

King's College

City of Bath College

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which Leith printer produced the first "Yuletide card", in 1841, five years before the first commercially produced Christmas card?

Answer: Charles Drummond

His card was designed for Hogmanay (which was more important than Christmas in Scotland) and depicted a cheery character proclaiming "A gude New Year, and mony o' them".

2. In Italian tradition, what is the name of the woman who fills children's Christmas stockings with gifts on the eve of Epiphany (Twelfth Night)?

Answer: La Befana

According to Legend, after Herod had killed the baby boys in Bethlehem, a grief-stricken mother believed that her baby was lost. She packed his belongings and set out to find him. She found a baby (Jesus) and, convinced he was the lost child, gave him her son's belongings. He blessed her, saying that on one night a year for eternity all children would be hers: she would bring them gifts.

3. Which Christmas carol was written for guitar music on Christmas Eve, 1818, in Austria by the musician Franz Gruber and the poet-priest Joseph Mohr?

Answer: Silent Night

The carol was first sung at Midnight Mass in Oberndorf on 24 December 1818.

4. A drinking fountain in Finsbury Square, London, commemorates Tom Smith, who invented which Christmas commodity there in 1847?

Answer: Christmas Cracker

On a trip to Paris in 1840 Tom Smith discovered the bonbon (a sugared almond in a twist of tissue paper) and began making them , adding a love motto in the wrapping. The crackle of a burning log gave him the idea of adding a cracking sound. By 1847 he had perfected a small chemical explosion to create a "pop" when the wrapping was broken.

He added a small gift and called his invention "cracker cosaques".

5. In his poem A Visit from St Nicholas, what names did Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) gave to Santa's eight reindeer?

Answer: Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donder, Prancer and Vixen

Rudolph was not one of them. He was created in 1939 by Robert May for the Chicago-based Montgomery Ward chain of stores as a free Christmas story to give to shoppers.

6. Which fourth-century "Christmas saint" is the patron saint of pawnbrokers, sailors, scholars, thieves and unmarried girls?

Answer: St Nicholas

In legend he gave gold to three needy girls for their dowries, which led to the custom of exchanging presents on his feast day (6 December).

7. With which English city are the words of this Christmas carol associated? Lullay,thou little tiny child, By-bye lully, lullay. Lullay,thou little tiny child, By-bye lully, lullay.

Answer: Coventry

The Coventry carol, from Pageant of Shearmen and Tailors, a fifteenth-century "miracle play" thought to have been enacted in Coventry on the festival of Corpus Christi.

8. In the biblical accounts of the Nativity, which pregnant kinswoman did Mary visit soon after the Annunciation?

Answer: Elizabeth

Elizabeth, wife of Zechariah, whose unborn son was to be John the Baptist.

9. In what do Italians traditionally put their presents on Christmas Eve?

Answer: The Urn of Fate

After the meal every person present takes their gift one by one from the Urn of Fate, a tradition followed as part of the Christmas celebrations in many households of Italy.

10. In which Cambridge College has the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols been held every Christmas Eve since 1918?

Answer: King's College

The festival was organised by Eric Milner-White, Dean of King's college,

Source: Author clementine2011

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