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Easy Christmas trivia for kids
Six easy questions
What color is Santa Claus's suit?
Which animals pull Santa's sleigh?
What is the name of the reindeer with a shiny red nose?
In most stories, who helps Santa make the toys?
What kind of tree do people usually decorate for Christmas?
What do people often put on the very top of a Christmas tree?
Christmas around the world
Six questions on traditions
In Japan, which meal has become a popular Christmas Eve tradition?
In Mexico, what are the nine nights of processions and parties before Christmas called?
In Italy, who is the old woman who brings presents (or coal) on the night of January 5?
In the Netherlands, how does Sinterklaas arrive in the middle of November?
In Poland, when does the Christmas Eve dinner (Wigilia) traditionally begin?
In Australia, Christmas falls in which season?
The Japan question surprises people every year. Christmas is not a public holiday there, and the fried chicken habit goes back to a KFC advertising campaign in 1974. Families still order their bucket weeks ahead.
Christmas films and songs
Six questions on films, books and music
In Home Alone (1990), what is the name of the boy whose family leaves him behind?
In the Dr. Seuss book, who tries to steal Christmas from Whoville?
In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, what is the name of the old miser?
The carol "Silent Night" was first sung in 1818 in which country?
Who sings "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (1994)?
Which Tchaikovsky ballet is performed all over the world at Christmas?
"Silent Night" catches people out: it is sung in German as "Stille Nacht", so many guess Germany, but it was first performed in a small church in Oberndorf, near Salzburg in Austria.
Where Christmas traditions come from
Six history questions
Santa Claus is based on which saint?
From which country did the decorated Christmas tree spread around the world?
In the calendar most of the world uses, on which date do the Russian and Serbian Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas?
In which year was the first commercial Christmas card sent, in London?
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created in 1939 for which kind of business?
What was the unofficial ceasefire between soldiers on the Western Front at Christmas 1914 called?
Two myths worth busting at the end. Coca-Cola did not invent Santa's red suit: illustrators drew him in red long before the company's famous 1931 adverts, which only made that look the one everyone knows. And Rudolph did not come from a song: Robert L. May wrote him as a story for the Montgomery Ward stores to give away, and the song came ten years later.
Tips for a Christmas quiz that works
- Pick the rounds for the room. The easy round is made for young kids; the film and history rounds work best with teenagers and adults.
- Ask for festive nicknames. Players type their own name when they join, so ask for a Christmas one and the leaderboard becomes half the fun.
- Add a round about your own family or class. Questions like "Who fell asleep first last Christmas?" make the quiz feel like yours.
- Leave time after each answer. The short explanation after every question is where people learn the Silent Night fact they will repeat at dinner.
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