Christmas Quiz: multiple choice
10 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. On Christmas Day 1977, Charlie Chaplin died in
a) Switzerland
2. On 26th December of what year was the USSR officially dissolved?
3. The Shrine of the Three Kings, a reliquary said to contain the bones of the Three Wise Men, can be visited in the cathedral in
b) Cologne
4. Every year in November Sinterklaas, the Dutch Father Christmas, arrives in Holland. Where does he come from and how does he get to Holland? (1 point per correct answer)
from Spain (he lives in a palace in Madrid) - (by steamboat)
5. For which football club has Christmas come early when they won the Intertoto Cup 2006, the first silverware since 1969?
6. In what year did NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, start tracking Santa's flight path around the world? (+/- 5 years)
7. In what year were the first electric Christmas lights used? (+/-20 years)
8. Which of Santa's other 8 reindeer was the father of Rudolph the red-nosed one?
Donner
9. Kwanzaa, a cultural holiday celebrated from 26th December till 1st January, originated from
c) USA
10. Which city is believed to be the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth?
11. If a Norwegian uses a bakken, what sport is he into? (*)
12. In what year did Coca Cola begin featuring Santa in their advertising at Christmas? (+/- 10 years)
13. In the 1930's, the Addis Brush Company produced the first artificial-brush trees, using the same machinery that made their
a) toilet brushes
14. Similar to the tradition of putting out cookies & milk out for Santa, the children in Sweden try please the Swedish Santa, Tomte, by leaving out
a) a bowl of rice pudding
15. On 26th December 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced the discovery of which element?
16. Which European football league does not take a winter break:
c) Portugal
17. Bandy is an ancestor of which winter sport?
18. In which country was the city of Natal ("Christmas") founded on 25th December 1599?
19. True or False: The man who founded the Buddhist Society in London in 1924 was a barrister called Christmas Humphreys?
true
20. In what century was Saint Nicholas of Myra born?
3rd century AD
ANSWERS
1. a) Switzerland
2. A 1991
3. b) Cologne
4. from Spain (he lives in a palace in Madrid) - (by steamboat)
5. C Newcastle United
6. B 1958
7. D 1882
8. Donner
9. c) USA
10. A Bethlehem
11. C Ski jumping
12. C 1931
13. a) toilet brushes
14. a) a bowl of rice pudding
15. C Radium
16. c) Portugal
17. A ice hockey
18. A Brazil
19. true
20. 3rd century AD