Sixth Annual CityNews.ca Christmas Quiz

Bored on a Christmas Day now that all the presents are open? Why not take our sixth annual CityNews.ca Christmas Quiz. Here are nine questions that will send you to Yule School.

1) The following anagrams are all famous Christmas carols. Can you figure out their real titles?

a) Big Jell Lens ( jump to answer)

b) Get Shin Lint ( jump to answer)

c)A Chess mirth wit ( jump to answer)

d) Bleed it mum or try ( jump to answer)

e) LA sketch held ( jump to answer)

f) Bills Revels ( jump to answer)

g) A cheat holey film foul ( jump to answer)

h) Hidden gong oiling myrrh ( jump to answer)

i) Lefties North ( jump to answer)

j) Taster of hymns own ( jump to answer)

2 ) Name the country where Santa or Father Christmas is known by the following monikers:

a) Pai Natal ( jump to answer)

b) Viejo Pascuero ( jump to answer)

c) Julemanden ( jump to answer)

d) Sinterklaas ( jump to answer)

e) Baba Chaghaloo ( jump to answer)

3 ) Clement Moore wrote the famous poem “Twas the night before Christmas.” But that wasn’t the original title. What was? ( jump to answer)

4 ) Who was supposed to star in the classic 1954 movie “White Christmas?” ( jump to answer) 

5 ) What was so unusual about Gene Autry’s 1949’s smash “Rudolph the red Nosed Reindeer?”( jump to answer)

6 ) Who was Edward Johnson and what did he do that changed the face of the way we celebrate Christmas? ( jump to answer)

7 ) Similarly, who are J. Fred Couts and Henry Gillespie and what did they do in 1934 that’s become a part of every Christmas since? ( jump to answer)

8 ) Who is famous for saying “Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth” and where did he say it? ( jump to answer)

9 ) Name the famous Christmas songs that include the following lyrics:

a) “Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams” ( jump to answer)

b) “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;
He got into a drifted bank,
And we, we got upsot.” ( jump to answer)

c) “Through the years we all will be together
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.” ( jump to answer)

Answers:

1a) Jingle Bells ( back to question1b)

 

1b) Silent Night ( back to question1c)

 

1c) White Christmas ( back to question 1d)

 

1d) Little drummer boy ( back to question 1e)

 

1e) Deck the Halls ( back to question 1f)

 

1f) Silver Bells ( back to question 1g)

 

1g) Oh Come, All Ye Faithful ( back to question 1h)

 

1h) Ding Dong! Merrily On High ( back to question 1i)

 

1i) The First Noel ( back to question 1j)

 

1j) Frosty the snowman. ( back to question 2)

 

2a) Portugal ( back to question 2b)

 

2b) Chile ( back to question 2c)

 

2c) Denmark ( back to question 2d)

 

2d) Netherlands ( back to question 2e)

 

2e) Afghanistan ( back to question 3)

 

3) It was originally published in 1823 as “An account of a visit from St. Nicholas.” ( back to question 4)

 

 

4) It was supposed to reunite Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, actors from the original, called “Holiday Inn”. But Astaire didn’t like the script and balked. It was then offered to Donald O’Connor, but he fell ill and couldn’t make it during production. Danny Kaye wound up in the film, only because he asked for an extraordinary amount of money (said to be $200,000 plus ten percent of the gross) and was stunned when producers agreed to his terms. ( back to question 5)

 

 

5) The so-called Singing Cowboy didn’t like the song and at first refused to record it. But his wife was a fan and she convinced him to do it. ( back to question 6)

 

 

6) Johnson was an associate of Thomas Edison and in 1882, he became the first person to ever light a Christmas tree using electricity. ( back to question 7)

 

 

7) They wrote the famous song “Santa Claus is coming to town”, which begins ‘you better watch out, you’d better not cry.’ ( back to question 8)

 

 

8) It was the famous Christmas Eve speech from astronaut Frank Borman on Apollo 8 as he circled the moon on December 24, 1968. ( back to question 9)

 

9a) I’ll be home for Christmas (If only in my dreams) ( back to question 9b)

 

9b) “Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way!”
(It’s the less well known second verse) ( back to question 9c)

 

9c) And “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” now. ( back to top)

 

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