Score 10 points for every correct answer – Score 5 points if half right! Play a JOKER in one round and get DOUBLE points in that round. Show it before you start the round. There are 12 rounds with 6 questions in each round.
Topics include:
- Christmas Music
- Santa
- International Xmas
- Christmas General
- More Christmas Music
- The Nativity Story
- A Christmas Mix
- Christmas Pot Luck
- A UK Christmas
- Christmas History
- Famous Carols
- Another Christmas Mix
Category: Quiz / General knowledge / English
Today, we are going to countdown to Christmas! Look at today’s date. How many shopping days are there still to go?
Have you bought yourself an advent calendar yet? If you have what is your favourite picture on it? Perhaps it is a chocolate advent calendar?
Category: Christmas / December / Events
Score 10 points for every correct answer – Score 5 points if half right! Play a JOKER in one round and get DOUBLE points in that round. Show it before you start the round. There are 12 rounds with 6 questions in each round.
Topics include:
- Christmas Music
- Santa
- International Xmas
- Christmas General
- More Christmas Music
- The Nativity Story
- A Christmas Mix
- Christmas Pot Luck
- A UK Christmas
- Christmas History
- Famous Carols
- Another Christmas Mix
Category: Christmas Quiz / General Knowledge / English
Today, let’s talk about Christmas. What is it? Why is it? How do we celebrate it? What does it mean to you? Also how has it changed over the years? Some interesting questions for you to mull over…maybe over a glass of Glühwein? This German pre-Christmas tradition has in recent years spread across Europe to the UK in the form of popular Christmas markets.
Category: Christmas / December / Tradition
Why do we dream of a white Christmas? Why do we get Christmas cards with snow on them? The culprit is the writer Charles Dickens. His childhood coincided with a decade of freakishly cold winters. Thus in his writings he describes persistently a Britain smothered in snow on Christmas Day, his inspiration coming from his childhood.
Six of Dickens’s first nine Christmases were white. One of these fell in the winter of 1813-14, when Britain’s last Frost Fair was held on a frozen River Thames in London and Dickens was nearly two years old. The ice around Blackfriars Bridge was thick enough to bear the weight of an elephant. So when in 1843, he came to write about the Ghost of Christmas Past, he did so with the spirit of those colder Christmases, with “quick wheels dashing the hoar frost and snow from the darker leaves of the evergreen like spray”. The story is now credited with establishing the Victorian genre of the Christmas story and spurring a revival of the celebration of Christmas in early Victorian England.
Category: Christmas / Charles Dickens / Snow
Pippa Middleton, the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, has published her guide to the festive season. Pippa’s ‘Top 10 tips for a Perfect Family Christmas’ has been published on the Party Times online magazine that she edits for her family’s mail-order business. It says the most important thing to remember for “stress-free” festive period is “first impressions”.
The magazine suggests: “Welcome family and neighbours by lighting pathways with tea light garden lanterns, LED light sticks and fairy lights wrapped round tree trunks or branches." Other tips include baking festive biscuits for children to hand out to their classmates as end-of-term gifts, creating a “fairytale gingerbread house”, and sprinkling “edible glitter” on Christmas popcorn.
The magazine says: ‘Have guests met by a beautiful red berry wreath and windows decorated with silver snowflake cut-outs, reindeers and Christmas trees using snow spray.’
Category: Pippa Middleton / Christmas / Party Tips
Why do we dream of a white Christmas? Why do we get Christmas cards with snow on them? The culprit is the writer Charles Dickens. His childhood coincided with a decade of freakishly cold winters. Thus in his writings he describes persistently a Britain smothered in snow on Christmas Day, his inspiration coming from his childhood.
Six of Dickens’s first nine Christmases were white. One of these fell in the winter of 1813-14, when Britain’s last Frost Fair was held on a frozen River Thames in London and Dickens was nearly two years old. The ice around Blackfriars Bridge was thick enough to bear the weight of an elephant.
So when in 1843, he came to write about the Ghost of Christmas Past, he did so with the spirit of those colder Christmases, with “quick wheels dashing the hoar frost and snow from the darker leaves of the evergreen like spray”. The story is now credited with establishing the Victorian genre of the Christmas story and spurring a revival of the celebration of Christmas in early Victorian England.
Category: Christmas / Charles Dickens / Snow
