Test your knowledge with this easy Fun Facts quiz. Each session picks 10 random questions from 30 total — try again for a new set!
10 random questions from 30 total • easy
Each session picks different questions.
On what date is Christmas Day?
In the UK, what is December 26 called?
Which country is the Christmas tree tradition most associated with originating in?
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A surprising amount of how Christmas looks today can be traced to a few specific moments. Decorated trees came from Germany and became fashionable in Britain after an 1848 picture of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's family gathered round one. Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 1843. Silent Night was first sung in German, in Austria, in 1818. The Christmas cracker was the idea of a London confectioner, Tom Smith, in the 1840s.
This quiz asks thirty questions like those, ten at random each round. They cover where the traditions began, the stories and songs — Scrooge and his ghosts, the eight reindeer of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, the partridge and the 364 gifts of the Twelve Days — and the real animals and weather behind the decorations: why snowflakes have six arms, what reindeer eat in winter, and why penguins and Santa would never actually meet.
There are a few questions about Christmas around the world too: what Feliz Navidad and Joyeux Noël mean, why Australians often spend the day at the beach, and why Norway sends London a tree for Trafalgar Square every year.
Every answer comes with a one-line explanation, so a wrong answer still teaches something. It is pitched for families and classrooms — most questions are within reach of a curious ten-year-old — and it works well on a screen with teams calling out answers. Play again for a different ten. For festive games rather than trivia, the Christmas games page has a word search, hangman, a memory game, a math game and a typing race.
Thirty in the bank. Each round picks ten at random, so replaying gives a different set.
Yes. The questions are about traditions, stories, songs and animals, and every answer is explained.
364, if you count every gift in every verse — one fewer than the number of days in a year.
Yes. Put it on a screen and play in teams — the explanations give you something to talk about between questions.
