Christmas Quiz - 10 questions to test your knowledge
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1. When was the first commercial Christmas card printed in the UK?

a) 1843. 
b) 1875. 
c) 1895.

2. When was the first commercial Christmas card printed in the USA?

a) 1843. 
b) 1875. 
c) 1895.

3. What is the UK's all time biggest hit song about Christmas?

a) Last Christmas by Wham!
b) Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 
c) Mary's Boy Child by Boney M

4. In what film did the song White Christmas first appear?

a)  White Christmas
b)  Home Alone
c)  Holiday Inn

5. Which of the Wise Men was said to have brought the gift of gold for the baby Jesus?

a)  Balthazar
b)  Melchior
c)  Caspar

6. How many gifts are given in total in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas?

a) 12
b) 78
c) 364

7. Clement Clarke Moore's 1822 poem "The night before Christmas" names eight of Santa's reindeer. 
Which one of the following was not in the original list?

a) Dasher
b) Dancer
c) Rudolph

8. In what country did the Christmas tradition of the decorated fur tree start?

a) England
b) Norway
c) Germany

9. In "Jingle Bells," the singer says "I thought I'd take a ride". Who was soon seated at their side?

a) Fanny Bright
b) Charlotte Bronte
c) Nellie Melba

10. What is the popular name for little baked sausages wrapped in rashers of streaky bacon? 

a) Hot dogs
b) Pigs in blankets
c) Sausage rolls

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Answers: 

1. Londoner Sir Henry Cole commissioned the artist John Callcott Horsley to create the first Christmas 
card suitable for printing in 1843. 

2. The first Christmas cards to be printed in the USA were produced by Louis Prang in 1875. 

3. Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid

4. White Christmas was first used in Holiday Inn, released in 1942. 

5. Melchior brought gold. Balthazar brought frankincense. Caspar brought myrrh.

6. 364 gifts.
Day 1- receives 1 gift 
Day 2- receives 3 additional gifts, making 4 total 
Day 3- receives 6 additional gifts, making 10 total 
Day 4- receives 10 additional gifts, making 20 total 
Day 5- receives 15 additional gifts, making 35 total 
Day 6- receives 21 additional gifts, making 56 total 
Day 7- receives 28 additional gifts, making 84 total 
Day 8- receives 36 additional gifts, making 120 total 
Day 9- receives 45 additional gifts, making 165 total 
Day 10- receives 55 additional gifts, making 220 total 
Day 11- receives 66 additional gifts, making 286 total 
Day 12- receives 78 additional gifts, making 364 total gifts received. 

7. Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, created in 1939 by Robert L. May, was not in the original list. 
The original team of eight were Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen.

8. The Christmas tree, as we now know it, goes back to 16th century Germany, where it was used to 
celebrate a 24 December holiday called "The Feast of Adam and Eve".

9. Miss Fanny Bright. The verse goes:

A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side;
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot,
We ran into a drifted bank
And there we got upsot. 

10. Pigs in blankets

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