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Family Christmas Quiz for Kids and Grown-ups

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20 questions about Christmas, for mixed ages, from about seven up, so children and grandparents can play on the same team. 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

  1. On which date is Christmas Day?
  2. Which animals pull Santa's sleigh?
  3. Where does Santa live, in the stories?
  4. What do people hang up by the fireplace or the bed for Santa to fill?
  5. What colour is Santa's suit usually?
  6. What do we call the helpers who make toys in Santa's workshop?
  7. What goes on the very top of a Christmas tree?
  8. How many days of Christmas are there in the carol?
  9. What shape is a candy cane?
  10. What do you call a person made of snow?
  11. Which green plant with spiky leaves and red berries is used to decorate at Christmas?
  12. What do we call the evening before Christmas Day?
  13. What is the calendar with a little door to open each day in December called?
  14. In the carol Jingle Bells, what kind of sleigh is it?
  15. What are the paper tubes that go bang when two people pull them at Christmas dinner?
  16. What spice gives gingerbread its name?
  17. How many reindeer pull the sleigh in the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas?
  18. In New Zealand and Australia, which season is it at Christmas?
  19. What do many children leave out for the reindeer on Christmas Eve?
  20. What falls from the sky as frozen white flakes in a cold winter?
Show the answers
  1. 25 December.
  2. Reindeer.
  3. The North Pole.
  4. A stocking.
  5. Red, with white fur trim.
  6. Elves.
  7. A star or an angel.
  8. Twelve.
  9. A hook, like a shepherd's crook or the letter J.
  10. A snowman.
  11. Holly.
  12. Christmas Eve.
  13. An advent calendar.
  14. A one-horse open sleigh.
  15. Christmas crackers.
  16. Ginger.
  17. Eight.
  18. Summer.
  19. A carrot. Lots of families leave a snack for Santa too.
  20. Snow.

How to run it

  1. Print the question sheets once per player or team, and the answer key once.
  2. Give teams about 20 minutes, or read the questions out one by one.
  3. Swap sheets to mark while the quizmaster reads the answers, then add up the scores out of 20.

More for a Christmas party: Christmas party games, Christmas bingo and the Christmas word searches.

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.

Which quiz suits children?

The family Christmas quiz and the true or false quiz. Both are easy enough for children from about seven or eight, with a grown-up reading the questions to younger players.

Use on your class or library site

Paste this into your school, class or library web page. It shows the picture and a link back here, so families can print it themselves. You can change the wording.

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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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