Festive Family Quiz

You will need pencils and paper and someone to read out the questions.

Remember, it’s just for fun so NO Googling! Ready, steady, go

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1. How far is it from Nazareth to Bethlehem, in miles, as the crow flies?

2. Jacob Marley is a character from which novel?

3. How many ‘Swans a swimming’ did my true love send to me?

4. Saint Nicholas is Patron Saint of Greece and which other country?

5. Which country ‘gifts’ us a Christmas Tree each year?

6. Where does the Royal Family spend Christmas?

7. Which country is the first to celebrate Christmas Day each Dec 25th?

8. Alphabetically, which is the first Gospel to describe the Nativity?

9. Which one of Santa’s reindeer is missing from this list?

       Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph

10. If the baby Jesus was born at 1.00am on Dec 25th, what time was it in              

       Woolgampton?               

11. What is stored in the hump(s) of a camel?

12. The ‘Nunc Dimittis’ is the Latin title of which musical piece?’

13. Of which region was ’Good King Wenceslas’, king?

14. Who wrote the song ‘White Christmas’?

15. Put these carols in chronological order, starting with the earliest.

      Silent Night – We Three Kings – Gaudete – O Come All Ye Faithful

16. On which day of the year is the Feast of Saint Stephen?

17. What colour is Myrrh?

18. In which century did the tradition of putting a coin in the Christmas Pudding

      start?

19. In which decade of the 20th century were the Christmas lights first turned

     on in London?

20. What should you do on 12th Night?

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