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CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY

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1. Which Christmas movie has been remade 135 times?

2. What creatures should you not feed after midnight?

3. What is the Grinch’s dog called?

4. In Elf what are the four food groups elves eat?

5. How many siblings does Kevin McCallister have in Home Alone?

5a. Can you name them?

6. What does Bill Nighy’s character say is all around us in Love Actually?

7. What do Albert Finney, Alastair Sim and Michael Caine have in common?

8. What are the top three Christmas movies of all time according to Yahoo?

ROUND 1CHRISTMAS FILMS

1. Which girl band had three consecutive Christmas number ones in 1996, 1997 and 1998?

2. ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ has been Christmas number one three times – for Band Aid, Band Aid II and Band Aid 20 – in which years?

3. Which is the only song to have been UK Christmas number one twice by the same artist?

4. In the past 15 years, how many Christmas number ones have been by X-Factor performers?

5. In the popular Christmas song by Justin Bieber, Bieber says “I should be playing in the winter snow”, but where will he actually be?

6. Which Christmas song was the first to be broadcast from space?

7. What is the UK’s favourite Christmas song?

8. In the video of ‘Last Christmas’, George Michael was filmed for the last time without what?

9. How much do Slade earn every year for their song ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’?

ROUND 2CHRISTMAS SONGS

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1. What do reindeer hang on their Christmas trees?

2. Who hides in the bakery at Christmas?

3. What do you get if you cross a bell with a skunk?

4. Why did no one bid for Rudolph and Blitzen on eBay?

5. What does Miley Cyrus eat for Christmas dinner?

6. What does Santa suffer from if he gets stuck in a chimney?

7. What does Santa say when he talks backwards?

8. How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizza?

ROUND 3WHAT’S THEPUNCHLINE

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1. Which country originated the ginger bread house?

2. What Christmas treat used to be illegal to eat on Christmas Day itself?

3. What is the UK’s favourite part of a Christmas dinner?

4. True or false: before turkey, the traditional English Christmas dinner included a pig’s head smothered in mustard.

5. How much does the world spend on milk and cookies for Santa every year: $114 million, $189 million or $230 million?

6. What is the meal consisting of left-over vegetables traditionally served on Boxing Day?

7. What was it traditionally lucky to fi nd in a Christmas pudding?

8. What Christmas drink is also known as ‘milk punch’?

ROUND 4FESTIVE FOOD

1. In a Matalan survey, what percentage of people said they own a Christmas jumper?

2. From the same survey, what percentage said they buy their Christmas jumper for a work event?

3. According to a 2016 survey, what percentage of UK adults would gladly sacrifice seeing relatives on Christmas Day if it meant they could spend more time on Facebook?

4. For a Christmas to be officially classified as ‘white’, how many snowflakes need to be observed falling on the rooftop of Met Office HQ in London in the 24 hours of 25 December?

ROUND 5THE PUBLICAND CHRISTMAS

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1. What do people do with Emperor Moth caterpillars in South Africa at Christmas?

2. What beverage do people leave out for Santa in Ireland?

3. True or false: people in Venezuela roller skate to Christmas Mass.

4. In which country do hundreds of people dressed as St Nicholas’ evil accomplice parade through the streets on 6 December?

4a. Bonus: in which city?

4b. Bonus: what is the name of this evil accomplice?

5. What is the most popular Christmas meal in Japan?

6. In which country do they believe they found the pelvic bone of St Nicholas?

ROUND 6ACHRISTMASAROUND THEWORLD

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7. In which country does a witch deliver children’s Christmas presents

8. Which beloved cartoon do Swedish families gather around the television to watch at 3pm sharp on Christmas Day?

9. In Mexico they create scenes of the Christmas story using which root vegetable?

10. The people of which country decorate their tree with spider webs, rather than tinsel, baubles and lights?

11. In one European country, single women stand with their backs to a door and throw a shoe. If the heel lands toward the door, she will remain single for another year. If the front of the shoe points to the door, she may move out of her parents’ house and start making wedding arrangements. In which country would you find this tradition?

ROUND 6BCHRISTMASAROUND THEWORLD

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ROUND 1 Christmas Films1 A Christmas Carol2 Gremlins 3 Max4 Candy, Candy canes, Candy corns, Syrup5 45a Jeff, Buzz, Megan, Linnie6 Christmas7 They have all played Scrooge in the film A Christmas Carol8 Home Alone, The Muppet Christmas Carol, It’s A Wonderful Life

ROUND 2 Christmas Songs1 The Spice Girls 2 1984, 1989, 20043 ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by Queen4 75 Under the mistletoe 6 ‘Jingle Bells’7 ‘All I Want for Christmas’ by Mariah Carey 8 A beard9 £500,000

ROUND 3 Whats’s the punchline?1 Horn-aments 2 A mince spy3 Jingle Smells4 Because they were two deer5 Twerky 6 Claus-trophobia7 Oh oh oh 8 Deep and crisp and even

ROUND 4 Festive Food1 Germany 2 Mince pies (Oliver Cromwell banned people eating them at Christmas in the 1650s in an effort to tackle gluttony)3 Roast potatoes4 True5 $189 million 6 Bubble and Squeak7 A sixpence8 Eggnog

ROUND 5 The public and christmas1 82% 2 75%3 57%4 1

ROUND 6 Christmas around the world1 Eat them 2 Guinness3 True4 Austria 4a Salzburg 4b Krampus5 KFC6 Turkey7 Estonia8 Donald Duck9 Radish10 Ukraine11 Czech Republic

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