- Which famous mathematician was born on Christmas Day in 1642?
- Who wrote Auld Lange Syne?
- The character Jack Skellington appears in which 1993 Tim Burton film?
- Who was the first British monarch to broadcast a Christmas message to the nation?
- What Christmas item was invented by London baker and wedding-cake specialist Tom Smith in 1847?
- Who are the four ghosts in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?
- Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean is a territory of which country?
- Child star Jimmy Boyd sang which hugely popular 1950’s Christmas song, which was initially banned by the Catholic Church in Boston because it supposedly mixed sex and Christmas?
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I have some guesses for some of these answers – but I haven’t cheated by looking them up.
1. John Napier
2. Robert Burns
3. The Night Before Christmas
4. George V
5. Christmas pudding
6. Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Yet To Come, Jacob Marley
7. The United Kingdom
8. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Quiz Master, how did I do?
I’m not the quiz master but I would guess you have 5 of them correct….
Mike, a good try but only halfway there.
The ones you still need to get are (1), (3, your answer is only part of one word out), (5), (7, your answer would have been correct in the past but not for some 52 years)
1. Sir Issac Newton
2. Robert Burns
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. George V
5. Christmas Cake
6. Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Yet To Come, Jacob Marley
7. Australia
8. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Blitzen has built on Mike’s answers getting three more right, just leaving number 5 to be answered correctly.
5 Crackers……I didn’t look it up either!!!
Well done Tracy, number (5) is Christmas Crackers!
Look out for a local knowledge quiz coming up in the next day or so.