Trivia night is a sensation that has been sweeping the globe. People love seeing if they know the answers to trivia questions!
How about starting the joyous and fun-filled holiday by hosting a Christmas trivia game at this year’s holiday party? It’s a fun way to create a festive holiday season mood at work or home for the family.
We’ve done the research for your holiday party game; the list features holiday trivia questions and answers for kids and adults.
Christmas Trivia Questions And Answers
Religious Christmas Trivia Questions
Where in the Bible do we read about the birth of Jesus?
Answer: In the gospel of Luke, chapter two.
What three types of gifts did the wise men gift Baby Jesus?
Answer: Gold, myrrh, and frankincense
Where was Baby Jesus born?
Answer: Bethlehem
How many miles did Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem?
Answer: 80 miles
How many gifts did the wise men give to Jesus?
Answer: Three
What does the Word Noel mean in Latin?
Answer: Birth
Where was Jesus laid after He was born?
Answer: In a manger
What else did the wise men do when they gave Jesus gifts?
Answer: They kneeled and worshipped Jesus.
What city was Jesus born in, and did He grow up in the same town?
Answer: Jesus was born in Bethlehem. They fled to Egypt when King Herod wanted to kill Jesus and returned to Nazareth, where Jesus grew up.
Who visited Baby Jesus after an angel appeared to them?
Answer: Shepherds visited Jesus.
Fun Family Christmas Quiz and Answers
Who came up with Elf On The Shelf game?
Answer: Carol Abersold and her daughters Christa Pitts and Chanda Bell
What Christmas decorations were initially made from strands of silver?
Answer: Tinsel
Why are Christmas candy canes red and white?
Answer: Red stripes represent Jesus’ blood shed on the cross, and the white represents the sinless purity of Jesus Christ.
How many Americans celebrate Christmas?
Answer: A 2017 Pew Research Center survey shows that 9 out of 10 Americans celebrate Christmas.
Santa’s sleigh is the fastest vehicle ever. Is this Christmas trivia true or false? Motivate your answer.
Answer: With the different time zones, Santa has 31 hours on Christmas eve to deliver presents to more than 2.5 billion children worldwide. His sleigh must move at about 1,800 miles per second to deliver all the gifts on time!
When is the holiday shopping season?
Answer: According to the National Retail Federation, the holiday shopping season lasts 55 days, the entire months of November and December.
Christmas Carols Trivia Questions
What is the best-selling Christmas song ever?
Answer: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the song White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby.
What Christmas classic was recorded in 1949 by Gene Autry?
Answer: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
What was the first song broadcasted from space? Hint: It happened in 1965 and is a popular Christmas song.
Answer: Jingle Bells
What is the most recorded Christmas song ever, and what are the first four words of this song?
Answer: Silent Night is the most recorded Christmas carol; the first four words are Silent Night! Holy Night!
How long did Maria Carey take to write her hit “All I Want For Christmas is you? Was it 15 minutes, 15 days, or 15 years?
Answer: 15 minutes
How many gifts were given in The Twelve Days Of Christmas song?
Answer: 364 gifts were given in The Twelve Days of Christmas.
Elvis Presley sang about having a sadder holiday season. Instead of a white Christmas, he was going to have a ____?
Answer: Blue Christmas
Which Christmas song features the most movie appearances?
Answer: Jingle Bells
Christmas Traditions Fun Christmas Trivia Questions
What is the legend behind the Christmas tradition of a Christmas stocking?
Answer: St. Nicholas wanted to help a low-income family with three daughters with a dowry. He threw coins down the chimney, and the coins landed inside a stocking hanging to dry.
Which popular holiday plant is known to be an aphrodisiac, and what happens when you stand under this traditional Christmas decoration?
Answer: The plant is the mistletoe, and according to tradition, it’s bad luck to refuse a kiss beneath the mistletoe. After each kiss, you pluck a berry from the plant. When all the berries are gone, the mistletoe loses its kiss-compelling abilities.
The popular Christmas song Jingle Bells wasn’t initially written for the traditional Christmas holiday? True or False
Answer: The well-known Christmas carol was originally written for Thanksgiving.
Christmas pudding is the traditional end to a British Christmas dinner. So what is another name for Christmas pudding?
Answer: Plum pudding. Originally it was more like a soup eaten as a fasting meal before Christmas festivities. Later it was thickened with the traditional bread sauce recipe and called plum pudding.
Christmas Trivia Questions For Kids
Kids love trivia just as much as adults. Here are some great Christmas-themed trivia for kids.
Xmas is the short version for what?
Answer: Although some use Xmas to remove the religious tone from the winter holiday, it still means Christmas; the X stands for Christ in Christmas.
What ornaments are on the tip of elves’ shoes?
Answer: Bells
What two things can you put on the top of a Christmas tree?
Answer: An angel but a star is also a correct answer.
What did the other reindeer not allow Rudolph to do because of his shiny red nose?
Answer: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer wasn’t allowed to partake in any reindeer games.
What is the first name of Scrooge?
Answer: Ebenezer
Who invented electric Christmas lights in 1880?
Answer: Thomas Edison
What gift does Ralphie receive from his aunt in A Christmas Story?
Answer: A pink bunny suit
What does Santa say at the end of the book A Visit From St. Nicholas?
Answer: Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Two of Santa’s reindeer’s names begin with the letter C and three with the letter D. What are those names, and can you name all of Santa Claus’ reindeer?
Answer: Comet, Cupid, Dunder, Dancer, Dasher, Vixen, Blixem, Prancer, and Rudolph
How many peppermint candies equals two candy canes?
Answer: About5-6 peppermints.
What made Frosty the snowman come alive?
Answer: An old silk hat
Christmas Trivia About Santa Claus
What does Santa Claus leave in the stocking of a naughty child?
Answer: A lump of coal
Which real-life person is Santa Claus based on?
Answer: The Christian bishop Saint Nicholas was the inspiration behind Santa Claus. He helped the poor and needy and gave gifts to children.
Santa Claus is known by other names; what are the two most popular names?
Answer: Saint Nick and Kris Kringle. Father Christmas and GrandFather Frost are also correct answers.
How many reindeer pull Santa’s Sled, and which number is Rudolph?
Answer: Nine reindeer are pulling the sled, and Rudolph is number nine.
Everyone knows what the modern, jolly Santa Claus looks like but what political cartoonist is responsible for that image?
Answer: Thomas Nast
Who started the tradition of department store Santa?
Answer: Entrepreneur James Edgar dressed up as Santa Claus in his department store.
Where does Santa Clause live?
Answer: The North Pole
What did mommy do underneath Santa’s snowy-white beard in I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus?
Answer: She tickled him.
Christmas Movies and Books Trivia
What is the highest-grossing Christmas movie of all time?
Answer: Home Alone is deemed the highest-grossing Christmas movie, but some would think it is How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
If you hop on this train, it takes children to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. What was the train called that featured in an animated 2004 movie?
Answer: The Polar Express
Which three words described the Grinch in the classic movie, How The Grinch Stole Christmas?
Answer: Stink, stank, stunk
Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Which reindeer wasn’t in the story Twas The Night Before Christmas?
Answer: Rudolph
What was the first rule of The Code of Elves in the movie Elf?
Answer: Treat every day like Christmas
What was the original title of The Little Drummer Boy?
Answer: Carol Of The Drum
In Christmas Vacation, how many lights were on Griswold’s house?
Answer: 25,000
How many ghosts are there in A Christmas Carol?
Answer: Four
Who did the storyteller see kissing Santa Claus in The Christmas Song?
Answer: The narrator saw mommy kissing Santa Claus.
Who were the actors playing George Bailey and George Bailey’s guardian angel in It’s A Wonderful Life?
Answer: James Stewart played George Baily, and Henry Travers was the angel.
What is the name of the character Tim Allen plays in The Santa Clause?
Answer: Scott Calvin
In the Christmas movie Miracle On 34th Street, who was hired to play Santa Claus?
Answer: Kris Kringle was hired because the original man who was supposed to play Satna Claus was drunk.
What winter recreational activity was the characters enjoying in A Charlie Brown Christmas?
Answer: Ice skating
What popular sayings did A Christmas Carol make widespread?
Answer: Although people saidMerry Christmas, the book made the saying popular “Bah humbug,” and everyone knows what it means if you say someone is a “Scrooge.”
In White Christmas, which scene wasn’t originally slated to be in the Christmas film?
Answer: Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye singing Sisters.
Christmas Foods Trivia Questions And Answers
How big is the biggest candy cane in the world?
Answer: According to the Guinness World Record, Geneva pastry chef Alain Roby made a candy can measuring 51 feet in length.
The fairy tale Hansel and Gretel was the inspiration for which Christmas food?
Answer: Gingerbread house
What do you call the pastry stuffed with different kinds of meat, fruits, and spices?
Answer: The sweet dessert is called a mince pie.
According to legend, why was the holiday goodies candy cane invented?
Answer: The legend is that the choirmaster of the Cologne Cathedral requested candies shaped like a shepherd’s staff to keep children quiet during the church’s nativity scene. The candy cane stripes were added later.
What does a Christmas turkey typically weigh?
Answer: 12 pounds
What is Santa’s favorite food gift he snacks on when delivering Christmas gifts? And what kind of food will you leave for Santa’s reindeer?
Answer: Milk and cookies for Santa Claus and oats and carrots for the reindeer
What is eggnog?
Answer: Eggnog is a British Christmas drink consisting mainly of milk, brandy, eggs, and flavorings.
What is the Yule Log, and what is its significance?
Answer: The Yule Log is a popular cake symbolizing the log you should burn on Christmas Eve.
What is the name of the real-life department store in the movie Miracle On 23Th Street?
Answer: Macy’s
What Christmas beverage is also called milk punch?
Answer: Eggnog
How many calories are in a typical Christmas dinner?
Answer: About 7,000 calories per person
Christmas Trivia Questions About Christmas Trees
What is the ideal height-to-width ratio for a full-profile Christmas tree?
Answer: A full profile Christmas tree should be 1.5 to 2 times in height to width. For example, a 7.5 feet tall Christmas tree should have a 5 feet circumference.
How long must a Christmas tree grow to reach the ideal height?
Answer: 15 years
What percentage of Americans buy artificial Christmas trees?
Answer: According to the American Christmas Tree Association, more than 80% of Americans buy artificial trees.
What sparks 100 accidental fires each holiday season?
Answer: Dried out Christmas trees
What is another name for a Christmas tree?
Answer: Yule tree
In which year was the first Christmas tree lit up in the Rockefeller Center?
Answer: 1933
Christmas Trivia Questions Related To Countries
Which country started decorating the Christmas tree?
Answer: Germany
Which country sends a huge Christmas tree to London each year?
Answer: Norway
Which country is KFC or fried chicken a special Christmas meal?
Answer: Japan
How do you say Merry Christmas in Hawaiian and Spanish?
Answer: Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaiin, and Feliz Navidad is Spanish for Merry Christmas.
What famous Christmas-themed ballet premiered in 1892 in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
Answer: The Nutcracker
Stolen is the traditional fruit cake of which country?
Answer Germany
Which country fills kid’s clogs with candy and treats on December 5?
Answer: The Netherlands
Which state in the U.S.A was the first to declare Christmas an official holiday?
Answer: Oklahoma
What Spain tradition celebrates another festival related to the Christmas Story? What is it called, and when is it?
Answer: They celebrate Epiphany on January 6. Epiphany, the festival of the Magic Kings, celebrates the wise men bringing gifts to baby Jesus. Children write letters to the kings asking for toys and presents, and on Christmas Eve, they leave their shoes on the balconies, windowsills, or Christmas trees to be filled with gifts.
What are the Spanish Christmas traditions on Christmas Eve?
Answer: Many families attend Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, known as The Mass of the Rooster (La Misa Del Gallo). A rooster supposedly crowed the night Jesus was born. The Spanish tradition involves eating the main Spanish Christmas dinner (Nochebuena) just before or after Midnight Mass. They give thanks and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Harder Christmas Trivia Questions
Which famous scientist was born on December 25?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton
Which leader is born on Christmas day? Is he a prime minister, true or false?
Answer: Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau was born on December 25, 1971, and is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history.
Who is the famous illustrator who painted the Quaker Oats man and the jolly Santa Claus for Coca-Cola advertisements?
Answer: Haddon Sundblom
For which store did Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer start as a marketing gimmick?
Answer: Montgomery Ward
What related to Christmas was designed by John Horsley, an English academic illustrator, designer, and painter?
Answer: He created the Christmas card in 1843.
What does NORAD (formerly CONAD) stand for, and in what decade did NORAD formerly start tracking Santa Clause on Christmas Eve?
Answer: NORAD is the acronym for North American Aerospace Defense Command, and it was in the 1950s, specifically 1955.
What two figures are modern Santa Claus based on?
Answer: Saint Nicholas and Father Christmas. Odin and Sinterklaas are also acceptable answers.
What Christmas decoration was made from a parasitic plant?
Answer: Mistletoe
When was the movie It’s A Wonderful Life shot? It was during Christmas of 1946, true or false.
Answer: False. It’s A Wonderful Life was made during the summer of 1946 during a heat wave. Capra shut the movie down for an entire day because of the heat. Looking closely, you can see Jimmy Stewars sweating in some critical moments in the story.
Who was the uncredited choreographer in White Christmas?
Answer: The famous stage and film choreographerBob Fosse was responsible for those memorable dance sequences.
Frosty The Snowman was originally a ___?
Answer: Frosty the Snowman was originally a popular Christmas song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson. The song was first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry and the Cas County Boys.