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In which year were electric lights first used to decorate Christmas trees?

Round 3: Christmas Traditions

  1. What innovation of 1843 became a standard feature of Christmas?
  2. Which plant used in Christmas decorations was sacred to Druids?
  3. Which modern Christmas tradition was borrowed from the Moravian Church?
  4. Who introduced the idea of the decorated Christmas tree to Great Britain?
  5. Which Christmas pantomime features Widow Twankey?
  6. What is the name of the little boy left behind at Christmas in
    Home Alone
    ?
  7. Which plant widely used as a Christmas decoration has the Latin name
    ilex aquifolium
    ?
  8. Which British monarch made the first royal Christmas broadcast?
  9. What Christmas essential was introduced by Tom Smith in 1847?
  10. By what name is the large place of wood traditionally burnt in the hearth at Christmas known?

Round 4: Pot Luck

  1. In the poem by A. A. Milne, what was it that King John wanted for Christmas?
  2. Which of the following is not the name of one of Father Christmas’s reindeer – Blitzen, Lancer or Comet?
  3. What is the name of the town that is the setting for
    It’s a Wonderful Life
    ?
  4. Which plant with red and green foliage makes a popular Christmas gift?
    1
  5. If you were given frumenty at Christmas, would you drink it, eat it or spray it on yourself?
  6. Who wrote
    The Father Christmas Letters
    ?
  7. Where does Father Christmas live?
  8. What did Harry Potter receive for his first Christmas at Hogwarts?
  9. Which New York department store features prominently in the film
    Miracle on 34th Street
    ?
  10. In
    A Christmas Carol
    , who is Tiny Tim’s father?

Jackpot

For which popular Christmas poem is Clement Clarke Moore remembered?

1.
According to Mexican legend, a penniless child who had nothing else to bring to church on Christmas Eve uprooted a handful of weeds and took them instead: once inside the church the humble weeds miraculously bloomed into magnificent red and green
flowers
.

Answers

 

Quiz 1 answers

Round 1

  1. The Nile.
  2. The maple leaf.
  3. A murder.
  4. Splatt (which is in Devon in the UK).
  5. Not in my back yard.
  6. Chesterfield.
  7. Better on lips than on paper.
  8. Sunderland.
  9. A massive tree, otherwise known as the giant redwood.
  10. A cappuccino.

Round 2

  1. Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
  2. Raymond Chandler.
  3. Pelham Grenville.
  4. The Three Musketeers.
  5. Chingachgook.
  6. King Solomon’s Mines
    (1885) by H. Rider Haggard.
  7. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett.
  8. Sir Percy Blakeney.
  9. Captain Ahab.
  10. Ian Fleming.

Half-time teaser
72.

Round 3

  1. Eddie.
  2. False (but he did have one called Elvis).
  3. Sir Isaac Newton.
  4. 1930.
  5. An ostrich (Theodore Roosevelt had a hyena, while John Quincy Adams had an alligator).
  6. Long John Silver.
  7. China (possibly as early as the fourth century
    AD
    ).
  8. A jill.
  9. His pet rat.
  10. True.

Round 4

  1. Greenland.
  2. Bats.
  3. An ice-pick.
  4. Charles Barry.
  5. The Blarney Stone.
  6. Half a crown (two shillings and sixpence).
  7. The rowan.
  8. Rhythm.
  9. Special Weapons and Tactics.
  10. Brian.

Jackpot
A prison.

 

Quiz 2 answers

Round 1

  1. The blue whale.
  2. The Renaissance.
  3. The Slovak Republic (or Slovakia).
  4. With its stare.
  5. Children’s Laureate.
  6. Pitcairn Island.
  7. Manchester.
  8. A carnivorous marsupial.
  9. Antonín Dvořák.
  10. Destiny’s Child.

Round 2

  1. Cochineal.
  2. The butterfly effect.
  3. Honey bees.
  4. The Goliath beetle.
  5. The daddy-longlegs (or cranefly).
  6. Potatoes.
  7. A spider.
  8. Five.
  9. Giacomo Puccini.
  10. Alexander Pope.

Half-time teaser
23.

Round 3

  1. The London Eye.
  2. Tower Bridge.
  3. Mayfair.
  4. Admiralty Arch.
  5. Billingsgate Market.
  6. Charing Cross.
  7. Fulham.
  8. Marylebone Road.
  9. The Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament).
  10. Highgate Hill.

Round 4

  1. The Enigma code.
  2. Kingsley Amis.
  3. Paris.
  4. Dawson’s Creek
    .
  5. The bicycle shot.
  6. To cool your porridge.
  7. Lord Louis Mountbatten.
  8. Todd Woodbridge.
  9. Brotherhood of Man.
  10. Eminem.

Jackpot
Richard Krajicek.

 

Quiz 3 answers

Round 1

  1. Bart Simpson.
  2. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
  3. The English Civil War.
  4. The Winter’s Tale
    .
  5. St Jude.
  6. EastEnders
    .
  7. A shark.
  8. A dozen.
  9. The Caspian Sea.
  10. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Round 2

  1. Albert.
  2. Leo Sayer.
  3. Fidelio
    .
  4. Radio Caroline.
  5. Cliff Richard.
  6. In a plane crash in 1967.
  7. All Saints.
  8. Empty orchestra.
  9. Arthur Sullivan.
  10. Peter Maxwell Davies.

Half-time teaser
4,500 miles.

Round 3

  1. Barbara Cartland.
  2. Everton.
  3. Detroit.
  4. Bill Clinton.
  5. ‘Chemical Ali’.
  6. Margaret Thatcher (abbreviation of ‘there is no alternative’).
  7. ‘The Thunderer’.
  8. Robert Maxwell.
  9. Jane Fonda.
  10. Doctor Harold Shipman.

Round 4

  1. 950.
  2. Lyon.
  3. Symphony No. 6.
  4. The Cider House Rules
    .
  5. Berkeley Castle.
  6. From the oven.
  7. Narcissus.
  8. Virginia.
  9. Copper.
  10. William Randolph Hearst.

Jackpot
A parabola.

 

Quiz 4 answers

Round 1

  1. They were cousins.
  2. 12 August.
  3. 14.
  4. The Windmill Theatre.
  5. Under the Arc de Triomphe.
  6. Alan Garner.
  7. Loki.
  8. The abominable snowman.
  9. The Black Eyed Peas.
  10. Green.

Round 2

  1. Mont Blanc.
  2. Mexico.
  3. Dartmoor.
  4. The Grampians.
  5. The Matterhorn.
  6. The Golan Heights.
  7. Kinder Scout.
  8. Switzerland and Italy.
  9. The Carpathians.
  10. Nepal.

Half-time teaser
12 seconds.

Round 3

  1. Doctor Foster.
  2. He ran away.
  3. Under a haystack, fast asleep.
  4. Lucy Locket.
  5. Lean.
  6. Little Tommy Stout.
  7. Wednesday.
  8. The sparrow.
  9. ‘Ring a ring o’ roses’.
  10. School.

Round 4

  1. The D-Day landings.
  2. Frank Sinatra (in the single ‘My Way’).
  3. Sweden.
  4. An ant.
  5. Dr Aziz.
  6. Nostradamus.
  7. Terry Pratchett.
  8. The British film industry.
  9. The Penguin.
  10. The US Civil War.

Jackpot
In the prison.

 

Quiz 5 answers

Round 1

  1. George Mallory.
  2. Germany’s.
  3. They kept the lights on throughout the show.
  4. A ghost.
  5. The Rosetta Stone.
  6. Kate Bush.
  7. King John.
  8. Jack Straw (then British foreign secretary).
  9. M15.
  10. The Scream
    .

Round 2

  1. Reading.
  2. He ran barefoot.
  3. Bobby Riggs (1939).
  4. Rowing (or skulling).
  5. Mike Tyson.
  6. Drag-racing (referring to the parachute deployed to reduce speed).
  7. 88.
  8. Lewis Hamilton.
  9. Zara Phillips.
  10. Gold.

Half-time Teaser

Eight minutes and 20 seconds.

Round 3

  1. Charles I.
  2. George I.
  3. Mary, Queen of Scots.
  4. The Black Prince.
  5. The name Mary.
  6. Twice.
  7. Richard III.
  8. Alexandrina.
  9. Louis XIV of France.
  10. They were all born with teeth.

Round 4

  1. Art.
  2. Times Square.
  3. A biscuit.
  4. Edward VIII.
  5. Friends
    .
  6. The halfpenny.
  7. Scott Tracy.
  8. Eric Idle.
  9. Gin.
  10. False.

Jackpot
Nikita Khruschev.

 

Quiz 6 answers

Round 1

  1. London.
  2. Solidarity.
  3. Nirvana.
  4. The railways.
  5. Johnny Haynes.
  6. Jihad.
  7. Robert the Bruce.
  8. Ayr.
  9. Elizabeth I.
  10. Alanis Morissette.

Round 2

  1. Spiders.
  2. Seven.
  3. Alice Cooper.
  4. Betty Grable’s.
  5. True.
  6. Howard Hughes.
  7. Venezuela.
  8. George Washington.
  9. 1983.
  10. Vietnam.

Half-time teaser
35 m.p.h.

Round 3

  1. 15.
  2. Card games.
  3. 44.
  4. Bobby Fischer.
  5. A spanner.
  6. 28.
  7. Mah-jong.
  8. Monopoly.
  9. Spear Games.
  10. A deck of tarot cards.

Round 4

  1. The Merchant of Venice
    .
  2. False (they are white).
  3. Vitamin C.
  4. Soupçon.
  5. Kieren Fallon.
  6. Depression.
  7. Joe Cocker.
  8. Clwyd.
  9. Take That.
  10. Noël Coward.

Jackpot
The Grapes of Wrath
.

 

Quiz 7 answers

Round 1

  1. Louis XVIII.
  2. Casper.
  3. 100.
  4. Olivia Newton-John.
  5. Caesar salad.
  6. Omaha and Utah.
  7. The Himalayas.
  8. Charlene Mitchell.
  9. Miniatures.
  10. Loving and giving.

Round 2

  1. Earth.
  2. Bronze.
  3. Eagle
    .
  4. Joseph Priestley.
  5. Green.
  6. Betamax.
  7. Heavy water.
  8. The machine-gun.
  9. False.
  10. The invention of the telephone.

Half-time teaser
13,386.

Round 3

  1. The Jolly Roger.
  2. Henry Morgan.
  3. Davy Jones.
  4. Captain Flint’s.
  5. The
    Black Pig
    .
  6. Blackbeard.
  7. Fifteen.
  8. Sir Francis Drake.
  9. A cutlass.
  10. It was eaten by a crocodile.

Round 4

  1. Dr Black.
  2. The Threepenny Opera
    .
  3. The Mogul Empire.
  4. Lyndon B. Johnson.
  5. Atomic Kitten.
  6. The Drones.
  7. Barbie.
  8. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  9. Little Miss Muffet.
  10. Salome.

Jackpot
Aphrodite.

 

Quiz 8 answers

Round 1

  1. Barrels.
  2. A drey.
  3. Augusta, Georgia.
  4. Cholera.
  5. 1960.
  6. They all became MPs.
  7. Toyota.
  8. Duran Duran.
  9. Polo.
  10. Sir Gordon Richards.

Round 2

  1. The Dead Sea.
  2. Tunisia.
  3. Venezuela (the Angel Falls).
  4. Monaco.
  5. South America (the Atacama desert in Chile).
  6. Egypt.
  7. The mantle.
  8. Winds.
  9. The Pacific.
  10. The Red Sea.

Half-time teaser
26.

Round 3

  1. Oysters.
  2. Firm to the teeth.
  3. Squid or cuttlefish.
  4. Hungary.
  5. Herring.
  6. Cabbage.
  7. False (there is no difference).
  8. Cheese.
  9. In Scotland.
  10. Angels on horseback.

Round 4

  1. The Roman god of doorways, Janus.
  2. Chick peas.
  3. Plato.
  4. Edward Heath.
  5. Pink Floyd.
  6. February.
  7. Hercules.
  8. Goldie
    .
  9. World War II.
  10. Baywatch
    .

Jackpot
Ray Milland.

 

Quiz 9 answers

Round 1

  1. Diane Keaton.
  2. Austria.
  3. Marc Bolan.
  4. Alec Issigonis.
  5. The foxtrot.
  6. A dress.
  7. The Royle Family
    .
  8. Georges Bizet.
  9. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe.
  10. The Boston Strangler.

Round 2

  1. Oliver Mellors.
  2. Shadowfax.
  3. George Orwell’s
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    (1949).
  4. Patrick Harper.
  5. The African Queen
    .
  6. Evelyn Waugh.
  7. Beau Geste
    .
  8. Death.
  9. Brendan Behan.
  10. Cephalonia.
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