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DAY Get Your Teams Together for Save the Children's QUIZ-Mas Jumper Photo: Louis Leeson/Save the Children Louis Leeson/Save Photo: QUIZMAS JUMPER Get your teams together for Save the DAY Children's QUIZ-mas Jumper Day. Make a small donation to take part and get CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY ready to prove you're woolly clever! The Save the Children Fund is a charity registered in England and Wales (213890) and Scotland (SCO39570). ROUND 1 CHRISTMAS FILMS 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? Photo: Jamie Baker/Save the Children Jamie Baker/Save Photo: ROUND 2 CHRISTMAS 1. Which girl band had three consecutive Christmas SONGS 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’? Photo: Jamie Baker/Save the Children Jamie Baker/Save Photo: ROUND 3 WHAT’S THE PUNCHLINE 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 4 FESTIVE FOOD 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’? Photo: Daniil Silantev on Unsplah/Save the Children on Unsplah/Save Daniil Silantev Photo: ROUND 5 THE PUBLIC AND CHRISTMAS 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? Photo: Denise Johnson on Unsplah/Save the Children Denise Johnson on Unsplah/Save Photo: ROUND 6A CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD 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? Photo: Denise Johnson on Unsplah/Save the Children Denise Johnson on Unsplah/Save Photo: ROUND 6B CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD 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? ANSWERS ROUND 1 ROUND 4 Christmas Films Festive Food 1 A Christmas Carol 1 Germany 2 Gremlins 2 Mince pies (Oliver Cromwell banned people eating them at 3 Max Christmas in the 1650s in an effort to tackle gluttony) 4 Candy, Candy canes, Candy corns, Syrup 3 Roast potatoes 5 4 4 True 5a Jeff, Buzz, Megan, Linnie 5 $189 million 6 Christmas 6 Bubble and Squeak 7 They have all played Scrooge in the film A Christmas Carol 7 A sixpence 8 Home Alone, The Muppet Christmas Carol, It’s A Wonderful Life 8 Eggnog ROUND 2 ROUND 5 Christmas Songs The public and christmas 1 The Spice Girls 1 82% 2 1984, 1989, 2004 2 75% 3 ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by Queen 3 57% 4 7 4 1 5 Under the mistletoe 6 ‘Jingle Bells’ 7 ‘All I Want for Christmas’ by Mariah Carey ROUND 6 8 A beard Christmas around the world 9 £500,000 1 Eat them 2 Guinness 3 True ROUND 3 4 Austria Whats’s the punchline? 4a Salzburg 1 Horn-aments 4b Krampus 2 A mince spy 5 KFC 3 Jingle Smells 6 Turkey 4 Because they were two deer 7 Estonia 5 Twerky 8 Donald Duck 6 Claus-trophobia 9 Radish 7 Oh oh oh 10 Ukraine 8 Deep and crisp and even 11 Czech Republic.
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