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Holiday Trivia 2024

Last night, I was asked to emcee our company Christmas dinner/educational night.  I was asked to come up with a few rounds of holiday trivia.  Let’s see how you do…

Round 1

Food and Drink (1 point each)

In Germany, is it traditional to hide this food ornament in the Christmas tree, with the finder receiving an extra gift.

In Germany, is it traditional to hide this food ornament in the Christmas tree, with the finder receiving an extra gift.

    Which country’s traditional Christmas dinner is Kentucky Fried Chicken?

      Gingerbread houses are said to be inspired by this German fairy tale that features two children.

        Holiday Movies (2 points each)

        In what Michigan city does the Polar Express pick up the Hero Boy?

        In Home Alone, where is the McCallister family planning to spend Christmas?

        In The Nightmare Before Christmas, what is the name of Jack Skellington’s ghost dog?

        Year’s Most Popular Toy (3 points each)

        In 1949, this board game featured a colonel, a professor, and other colorful characters.  It was so popular it inspired a 1985 movie.

        In 1952, this toy was invented with the hope of getting kids to eat their veggies. Face parts that could be used to personify the toy were originally found as toys in cereal boxes. Years later, it could be found in the Toy Story films.

        In 1971, kids were introduced to an egg-shaped family and their friends. Playsets included a playground, a tree house, haunted house and airport.

        Christmas Carol Rhyme Time (1 point each)

        Write the pair of rhyming words from these holiday lyrics:


        We’ve been good but we can’t ____.  Hurry Christmas, hurry _____.


        A child, a child shivers in the ____, let us bring Him silver and ______.


        To face _____, the plans that we _____. Walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland.


        Dancin’ and Prancin’ in Jingle Bell ____, in the frosty ____.


        It doesn’t show signs of _____ and I brought some corn for ______.

        Round 2

        Christmas specials (1 point each)

        In the special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which of the reindeer is Rudolph’s father?

          These are the first two words that Frosty the Snowman says when he comes to life.

            “Who” is the only person to see the Grinch steal Christmas? 

            Winter Holiday (Not Christmas) (2 points each)

            Dating back to 1743, the Oxford English Dictionary defines this holiday as “the day after Christmas day” and saying “traditionally on this day tradespeople, employees, etc., would receive presents or gratuities (a “Christmas box”) from their customers or employers.” It will always fall on a weekday.

            Hanukkah is the festival of lights. How many nights is Hanukkah celebrated?

            This pagan holiday is celebrated annually on December 23 and includes a dinner, an unadorned aluminum pole, the “airing of grievances” and “feats of strength”.  Bonus Point:  Tell me from where this holiday originated.

            Holiday Hits ( 3 point questions)

            In 1958, this Christmas novelty song became the only holiday song to reach number one on the charts.  It held that honor for 61 years (2019) until Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas is You hit #1.

            While this song has always been considered a Christmas song, it was originally written for the Thanksgiving holiday.

            This Christmas song holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling single of all time.  Name it. (Bonus Point: name the artist who sang it for the World Record.)

            Name the character (1 Point each)

            Post your answers in the comments

            Answers to follow…

            Master of Questions (and other Nonsense)

            Trivial Problem

            I’ve been asked by my boss to act as Emcee for Holiday Trivia at our Christmas Meeting/Gathering. There will be some training before hand, catered dinner, and Holiday Trivia.

            I’ve never been to a Trivia night at any local bar or pub. Because of this, I really have no idea how they play. I know a few bloggers who have and some friends who go, but it seems that every place does it a bit differently. Getting questions for this is no issue – all I had to do was go into my folder of Christmas trivia I used when I was on the radio. It is the execution of the game itself that I don’t know.

            The basic gist of the thing is that there are 2-5 rounds of questions. Teams write their answers to the questions on a piece of paper or on index cards. There are points for getting the right answers. Some places wager on questions based on the topic. I really am clueless. I plan on doing some sort of search online to see the best way to do this.

            Have you ever been to one of those trivia nights? Any suggestions?

            Our doc is probably sick…. of us!

            Over the past 10-11 days, every one of us has been to the doctor. Today, I had both kids in the office again because their coughing sounded awful. We were worried that the gunk we all got was in their chest and might lead to pneumonia.

            I swear, between in office visits, ER visits, telemedicine calls, and messages back and forth through the office portal, our doc has got to be sick of seeing our names! On the other hand, she might just thank us for making her house payment this month!

            Chilly Fun

            Daisy finally got to go outside in the snow. She wasn’t really sure what to make of it. She was biting at the falling snow for a bit and really didn’t know what to think about walking on it. It didn’t take long and she was running round and rolling in it. She was even eating it off the ground.

            The kids were insistent about going outside when the snow fell. Neither was feeling great, but they wanted to see the snow. We bundled them up real good and we were outside for 10-15 minutes. In that time we started to build a snowman.

            At first glance, in the above photo it looks like Andrew is putting the snowman’s head on. That, however, was not the case. He has actually removed it and about 2 seconds later, he threw it on the ground. Then he and his sister jumped on the rest of the poor snowman. Sigh.

            Elfin’ Around Again

            The Elf on the shelf is back and once again, I have to be creative with it. I’ve been lacking a bit, but the kids still get a kick out of it. Two nights ago, I just put it on top of the TV looking down. The laughed at that more than the Elf and Barbie looking at Christmas lights…

            Last night, I printed some pictures of the elf and made it cover all our faces in the pictures on the wall…

            Perfect Gift

            I’m not sure who might read this, but this will be a bit cryptic. My wife’s Christmas present is on the way. All I will say is that I may have mentioned something about it in a past blog. I have seen some pictures and I cannot wait to see it in person. I truly believe that this will be a BIG surprise for her and I hope that she will love it!

            I’ve had to tell her that there is a package arriving and that she cannot open it when it comes.