
- In Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol, who was Scrooge’s dead business partner?
- From the Christmas Carol “Good King Wenceslas”, where was Good King Wenceslas the King of?
- What was the title of the song and the name of the artist for the Christmas Number 1 in 2000?
- He’s known as Father Christmas in the UK, Pere Noel in France, Kriss Kringle in Germany, La Befana in Italy, Julinesse in Denmark and Dedushka Moroz in Russia but what does the Russian version of Father Christmas actually mean?
- On 26th December of what year was the USSR officially dissolved?
- In what year were the first electric Christmas lights used?
- In the 1930’s, the Addis Brush Company produced the first artificial-brush trees, using the same machinery that made their…. a) toilet brushes, b) hair brushes, c) tooth brushes or d) paint brushes?
- The music to ‘Silent Night’ was originally written for a…. a) guitar, b) piano, c) harpsichord or d) pipe organ?


Question 3 – “Can We Fix It” by Bob The Builder (which was written by an old friend, so I won’t hear a word said against it!)
Question 8….(a) a guitar
1. Jacob Marley
1.Jacob Marley
2.Bohemia
3.Bob the Builder -‘Can we fix it’
4.Grandfather Frost
5.1991
6.1882
7.toilet brush
8.guitar
Well done 8/8. At this rate we are going to run out of Christmas related questions well before Christmas.
The next two rounds will be local knowledge.