Christmas trivia quizzes

[pete9012S]

General Christmas Trivia
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How much do you really know about Christmas? Test your knowledge with our general Christmas trivia quizzes. We've got some difficult ones here, and only Santa could guess them all correctly!

Easy Christmas Trivia 1

Easy Christmas Trivia 2

Medium Difficulty Christmas Trivia

Difficult Christmas Trivia 1

Difficult Christmas Trivia 2

I tried the Difficult Christmas Trivia 1 Quiz first and only managed a poultry 6/10..

General Christmas Trivia Quizzes:

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[Domino]

Pete wrote:

'I tried the Difficult Christmas Trivia 1 Quiz first and only managed a poultry 6/10..'

Do you mean you got the bird, Pete?

Don't worry, I tried both the difficult ones and got 6 in each.

[pete9012S]

Well done Dave - I celebrated your esteemed score by having a slice of slow roasted paltry..

[Courtenay]

I tried both the difficult ones and got 7 right on one and 5 on the other, so that evens it out to an average of 6...

[Daisy]

I only managed 4 on each of the difficult ones, but 8 on both the easier ones.

[IceMaiden]

I tried them all and got most wrong on the last difficult one. I can't understand why the 'how many reindeer pull Santa's sleigh?" Answer is 8 though, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph. That's 9 not 8 but it came up as wrong

[Domino]

That's because in the 1823 poem, 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas', there are only eight. Rudolph seems to have been invented for the 1949 song.

[pete9012S]

That's really interesting Dave - thank you.

[Courtenay]

That's because in the 1823 poem, 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas', there are only eight.

We had a lovely picture book of that poem (titled The Night Before Christmas, after the familiar first line) when I was little and my big sister used to read it to me every Christmas Eve! Happy days. (And yes, I got the trivia question right for that reason.)

[IceMaiden]

That's because in the 1823 poem, 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas', there are only eight. Rudolph seems to have been invented for the 1949 song.

That's interesting, I didn't know that. How strange then that the one who didn't exist originally is the most well known and mentioned

[Domino]

I doubt if there are many people who could recite more than the first two lines of Moore's poem.

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Dave

[Courtenay]

Thanks for sharing that, Dave. I remembered and could recite quite a lot of it before checking the link, but not every single line. It must be nearly 30 years since my sister last read it to me and I've probably only seen it once or twice since!

After a lot of scrolling through Google Images, here at last is the cover of the copy we had (and almost certainly still have somewhere):



Interesting that it doesn't have the author's name on the cover, possibly because the poem was originally published anonymously and although it was later included in a collection of Clement C. Moore's work, there's some controversy as to whether he really wrote it (I've just been reading this article that I found with another image of the same cover illustration: Who Wrote "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"?

[Domino]

Interesting also is that the illustrator, Douglas Gorsline, has portrayed Saint Nick as man-size, whereas the poem refers to him as 'a jolly old elf'' riding in 'a miniature sleigh' drawn by 'eight tiny teindeer'. Were the presents tiny as well?
Where did Moore (or whoever) get the idea that Saint Nick was a little elf? I know of no other source that suggests this.

Dave

[pete9012S]

Well if even you don't know, what chance have we mere mortals got Dave!