Colouring NestChristmas Trivia Questions and Answers for Adults
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20 questions about Christmas, for adults and teenagers, at a party, an office lunch or a quiz night. Each question has a line underneath for the answer, and the first sheet has a space for a team name and the score. The PDF has 4 pages: 3 question sheets and an answer key. Read the questions and answers below too, if you would rather run the quiz from a screen.
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The questions
- In which country did the custom of decorating a Christmas tree begin?
- Which Roman festival, held in December, honoured the god Saturn?
- How many gifts are given in total in the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas?
- In The Twelve Days of Christmas, what is given on the fifth day?
- How many lords are a-leaping in The Twelve Days of Christmas?
- Which author wrote A Christmas Carol, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge?
- In which country was the carol Silent Night first sung, in 1818?
- What three gifts did the wise men bring in the Christmas story?
- Which country sends a Christmas tree to Trafalgar Square in London every year?
- Poinsettias, the red Christmas plants, grow wild in which country?
- What colour are the berries of mistletoe?
- How many points or arms does a snowflake usually have?
- What does Feliz Navidad mean, and in which language?
- What is Father Christmas called in France?
- What is the French name for a chocolate Christmas log cake?
- In the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, how many reindeer pull the sleigh?
- On which date is the feast of Epiphany, which ends the twelve days of Christmas?
- What is the name of the season of about four weeks before Christmas?
- Which saint, a bishop who lived about 1,700 years ago, is Santa Claus based on?
- Reindeer have another name in North America. What is it?
Show the answers
- Germany is usually credited: decorated trees were part of Christmas there by the 1500s. Latvia and Estonia also claim early trees.
- Saturnalia.
- 364, counting every gift on every day.
- Five gold rings.
- Ten.
- Charles Dickens, in 1843.
- Austria, in the village of Oberndorf near Salzburg.
- Gold, frankincense and myrrh.
- Norway, as a thank you for Britain's help in the Second World War.
- Mexico, and parts of Central America.
- White.
- Six.
- Merry Christmas, in Spanish.
- Père Noël.
- Bûche de Noël.
- Eight.
- 6 January.
- Advent.
- Saint Nicholas of Myra, in what is now Turkey.
- Caribou. They are the same species.
How to run it
- Print the question sheets once per player or team, and the answer key once.
- Give teams about 20 minutes, or read the questions out one by one.
- Swap sheets to mark while the quizmaster reads the answers, then add up the scores out of 20.
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Questions about the quiz
How do you run a Christmas quiz?
Split into teams of two to five, give each team the question sheets and a pen, and either let them work through the sheets in 20 minutes or read the questions out one at a time. Swap sheets to mark, read out the answers from the answer key and add up the scores.
Are the answers included?
Yes. The last page of every PDF is the answer key, and the answers are also on the page in a section you can open, under the questions.
Can I use these at a work party or in a care home?
Yes. They are free to print for home, school, work and care-home events. Please do not sell them or upload them to another website.
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Printing tips
- Print the answer key on its own so it can stay with the quizmaster.
- For a big group, read the questions out and have teams write answers on plain paper.
- Give a bonus point for the funniest wrong answer.
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