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  1. How many gifts would you have if you received all the presents in the song The Twelve Days Of Christmas?
     
  2. Who was Scrooge’s deceased business partner in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?
     
  3. Who decided the date for Christmas would be 25 December?
     
  4. What do traditional Ukrainians put on their Christmas tree for good luck?
     
  5. Who of Isaac Newton, Ella Fitzgerald, Humphrey Bogart and Justin Trudeau was not born on Christmas Day?
     
  6. How many candles should go on an Advent wreath?
     
  7. What is the highest-grossing Christmas movie?
     
  8. What are the names of the Three Wise Men?
     
  9. In which European country was the original St Nicholas from?
     
  10. Which English leader banned the singing of Christmas songs?
     
  11. Which Christmas word means ‘turning of the sun’?
     
  12. What is the date of the Twelfth Night?
     
  13. What star sign would you be if you were born on Christmas Day?
     
  14. Which member of the current England cricket team was born on Christmas Day?
     
  15. What is the French word for Christmas?
     
  16. What was the first song sung by astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra in space on December 16, 1965.
     
  17. In what country do people traditionally eat KFC for Christmas dinner, so much so that customers must place their orders two months in advance.
     
  18. What was gifted to the US by the French on Christmas Day in 1886?
     
  19. There is a town in Indiana called Santa Claus. True or false?
     
  20. Which country has the postcode H0H 0H0 especially for Santa: Canada, Netherlands, South Africa?

 

Marg

 

 

Answers: 1: 364, 2: Jacob Marley, 3: Pope Julius I, 4: A spider’s web, 5: Ella Fitzgerald, 6: 4, 7: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), 8: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, 9: Turkey, 10: Oliver Cromwell, 11: Yuletide, 12: 5 January, 13: Capricorn, 14: Alastair Cook, 15: Noel, 16: Jingle Bells, 17: Japan, 18: The Statue Of Liberty, 19: True, 20: Canada.

 

 

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4 hours ago, wombatie said:

  

  1. How many gifts would you have if you received all the presents in the song The Twelve Days Of Christmas?
     
  2. Who was Scrooge’s deceased business partner in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?
     
  3. Who decided the date for Christmas would be 25 December?
     
  4. What do traditional Ukrainians put on their Christmas tree for good luck?
     
  5. Who of Isaac Newton, Ella Fitzgerald, Humphrey Bogart and Justin Trudeau was not born on Christmas Day?
     
  6. How many candles should go on an Advent wreath?
     
  7. What is the highest-grossing Christmas movie?
     
  8. What are the names of the Three Wise Men?
     
  9. In which European country was the original St Nicholas from?
     
  10. Which English leader banned the singing of Christmas songs?
     
  11. Which Christmas word means ‘turning of the sun’?
     
  12. What is the date of the Twelfth Night?
     
  13. What star sign would you be if you were born on Christmas Day?
     
  14. Which member of the current England cricket team was born on Christmas Day?
     
  15. What is the French word for Christmas?
     
  16. What was the first song sung by astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra in space on December 16, 1965.
     
  17. In what country do people traditionally eat KFC for Christmas dinner, so much so that customers must place their orders two months in advance.
     
  18. What was gifted to the US by the French on Christmas Day in 1886?
     
  19. There is a town in Indiana called Santa Claus. True or false?
     
  20. Which country has the postcode H0H 0H0 especially for Santa: Canada, Netherlands, South Africa?

 

Marg

 

 

Answers: 1: 364, 2: Jacob Marley, 3: Pope Julius I, 4: A spider’s web, 5: Ella Fitzgerald, 6: 4, 7: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), 8: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, 9: Turkey, 10: Oliver Cromwell, 11: Yuletide, 12: 5 January, 13: Capricorn, 14: Alastair Cook, 15: Noel, 16: Jingle Bells, 17: Japan, 18: The Statue Of Liberty, 19: True, 20: Canada.

 

 

your digging deep for these,Marg

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I know I flunked.... I got one right, #19, I guessed, well I did know 18.  But not really, I thought it because I knew it came from the French, but really did not really realize it was presented on Christmas. 

Another quiz and another one bites the dust!

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