Christmas Quiz 2001
The questions in this quiz were trivia questions,
with the common feature that the answers could be preceded or followed by the
word ‘Christmas’. Here are the answers
(plus questions, categories and comments where appropriate).
- Box Popular
shrub for topiary Nature
- Broadcast The Queen’s moved in 1957 Television (The Queen’s
Christmas Broadcast moved to television in 1957)
- Cake Goes with ale in
Somerset Literature
(Cakes and Ale by W Somerset Maugham)
- Card Denry Machin Literature
(eponymous hero of The Card by Arnold Bennett)
- Carol Fools Neil in 1959 Music (Oh
Carol by Neil Sedaka – ‘Oh Carol I am but a fool’)
- Cracker Robbie’s detective
exploits Television
(Robbie Coltrane played the psychologist Fitz in TV series Cracker)
- Decorations Gongs Protocol
(slang for medals)
- Dinner Murderous meal for
guests Games (‘Murder
dinner’ – at which guests investigate an imaginary murder)
- Disease Haemophilia B Medicine
(a variant of ordinary haemophilia also known as Christmas Disease)
- Eve First lady Religion
- Father Brown detective Literature
(Father Brown in the stories of G K Chesterton)
- Happy One of seven Films
(dwarf in Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
- Island Cook’s discovery on Christmas Eve History (Captain Cook
discovered Christmas Island on Christmas Eve 1777)
- Lights Aurora borealis Nature
(the Northern Lights)
- Merry Cheerful hobbit Literature
(character in The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien)
- Oratorio Unstaged musical Music (a
dramatic choral work, for example The Christmas Oratorio by Bach)
- Party It was Lesley’s in
1963 Music (It’s
My Party by Lesley Gore)
- Past Taps into history Words
(anagram – Christmas Past appears in The Christmas Carol by Dickens)
- Present Time for Noel to laugh Theatre (Present
Laughter, play by Noel Coward)
- Pudding Start of great fire History
(the Great Fire of London of 1666 started in Pudding Lane)
- Rose Symbol of Labour Politics
(New Labour use a rose as their emblem)
- Spirit Showed guts in solo
flight History (The
Spirit of St Louis made the first solo trans-Atlantic flight)
- Stocking Blue for academics Words (idiom
– ‘blue-stocking’)
- Tree Famous theatrical Theatre
(Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor/producer and founder of RADA)
- White Murder suspect Games
(Mrs White is one of the six suspects in a standard game of Cluedo)
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