Christmas Songs
Christmas on the Big & Small Screen
Christmas Potpourri
Christmas by the Numbers
Christmas Fun Facts
Christmas Sing-a-Long
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Self-proclaimed Queen of Christmas who sung “All I Want For Christmas is You” ?
Who is Mariah Carey?
100
Animated film about a train that carries kids to the North Pole.
What is "The Polar Express"?
100
Popular Christmas decoration that is used to crack nuts (Ladies, please be gentle).
What is Nutcracker?
Fun Fact: the first nutcrackers were made as replicas of soldiers and other figures of authority. The common folk took great enjoyment in having the ruling people working for them, cracking their "hard nuts of life"
100
Number of balls Charlie Brown had hanging on his Christmas Tree (Disclaimer: This is not a euphemism of sorts)
What is 1 ?
100
This character has a button nose.
Who is "Frosty the Snowman"?
100
Sing the next 2 lines...
“O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way…”
What is...
“… Bells on bobtails ring
Making spirits bright”
(Jingle Bells)
200
Elvis Presley sang about this color Christmas
What is Blue ?
200
"Miracle on 34th Street" centers on this department store.
What is "Macy's"?
200
Your zodiac sign if you are born on Christmas Day.
What is Capricorn?
Capricorn, the sea goat (10th sign of the zodiac / December 21 to January 20)
200
In the Rankin-Bass classic, number of reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh.
What is 9 ?
200
This popular miniature character checks on kids for Santa and is sometimes posed for memes, such as the following:
Who is "Elf on the Shelf"?
200
Sing the next 3 lines...
“Joy to the world the Lord is come
Let earth receive her king
Let every heart prepare Him room…”
What is...
“… And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and Heaven and nature sing”
(Joy to the World)
300
According to the “Mr. Grinch” song, the Grinch has this in his soul.
What is garlic?
You're a monster
Your heart's an empty hole
You're a goner
You got garlic in your soul
300
This movie, which spawned a few sequels, is about a child fighting off burglars in his home during Christmas.
What is "Home Alone"?
300
This beverage company created the first visual image of Santa Claus and used it in their commercials since the 1930’s
What is Coca-Cola?
300
Number of ghosts that visited Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
What is 4 ?
Namely: Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future
300
This Christmas-themed ballet features the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy".
What is "The Nutcracker Suite"?
300
Sing the next line...
“… With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright…”
What is...
“… And may all your Christmases be white”
(White Christmas)
400
Well-loved Christmas carol about a geriatic loved one injured by a North Pole inhabitant.
What is "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"?
400
The Christmas movie from where this line came from: "Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."
What is "It's a Wonderful Life"?
Starring James Stewart/George Bailey; Donna Reed/Mary Hatch Bailey, & Carolyn Grimes/Zuzu Bailey in the following scene:
400
What naughty kids get traditionally at Christmas.
What is lump of coal ?
400
Number of sizes the Grinch’s heart grew on Christmas Day?
What is 3x ?
400
The Brothers Grimm fairytale which inspired gingerbread houses
What is "Hansel and Gretel"
(Fun Fact: In some versions, the Witch is known as the Gingerbread Hag and in Engelbert Humperdink's 1892 opera she is called Rosina Leckermaul, the German translation of the name being "Raisin Sweet-tooth")
400
Sing the next line...
“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…”
What is...
“… Jack Frost nipping at your nose”
(The Christmas Song)
500
This song wasn't meant to be a Christmas song at all. Composed in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont, the tune was actually created for Thanksgiving.
What is Jingle Bells?
(The original title of the song was “One Horse Open Sleigh,” but that was changed to “Jingle Bells, or the One Horse Open Sleigh” when it was reprinted in 1859.)
500
In the movie "Elf", Buddy was named after this.
What is his diaper brand label: "Little Buddy Diapers"?
500
In "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", what carolers demand before leaving.
What is figgy pudding?
To quote:
Now bring us a figgy pudding
For we all like figgy pudding
And we won't go until we got some
So bring some out here
500
Number of winged gifts that were given on the 12th Day of Christmas
What is 23 ?
Broken down into: 1 partridge, 2 turtle doves, 3 french hens, 4 calling birds, 6 geese, 7 swans
500
After red and green, the next two popular Christmas colors.
What are silver and gold?
500
Sing the next 5 lines...
“On the fifth day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me…”
What is..
"Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.”
(12 Days of Christmas)
600
Other name given to the carol “O Tannenbaum”?
What is "O Christmas Tree"?
600
In the Christmas TV show, Frosty The Snowman, Professor Hinkle's rabbit's name
What is Hocus Pocus?
600
Before the 1957 book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", the town of Whoville first appeared in this 1954 Dr. Seuss book.
What is "Horton Hears a Who!"
600
Number of days the Kranks family decided to skip Christmas to be in a sun-kissed Caribbean cruise.
What is 10?
600
Children are known to leave milk & cookies for Santa, and this for his reindeer.
What are carrots?
600
Sing the next line...
“… Round yon Virgin Mother and Child…”
What is...
“… Holy infant so tender and mild”
(Silent Night)
700
What you hear on every street corner when it’s Christmas time in the city?
What are silver bells?
Lyrics as follows...
Children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you hear
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring a ling, hear them ring
Soon it'll be Christmas day
700
In the movie "Elf", this is the first rule in the Code of Elves.
What is "Treat every day like Christmas"?
700
Country where the popular Christmas beverage also known as “milk punch” originated from?
What is England?
Milk Punch aka Eggnog originated in England.
700
When the Grinch stopped an entire sleigh loaded with presents from going over a cliff and lifts it over his head, he is described to have found the strength of this many Grinches.
What is 12 ?
He found the strength of “ten Grinches plus two”
700
What you have in December that you don't have in any other month?
What is the letter "D" ?
700
Sing the next 4 lines...
“I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath the mistletoe last night…”
What is...
“… She didn't see me creep
Down the stairs to have a peep
She thought that I was tucked up
In my bedroom, fast asleep”
(I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus)
800
Pop star, who will soon play a famous witch, who sang “Santa Tell Me”?
Who is Ariana Grande?
800
In the TV episode of Friends titled "The One with the Holiday Armadillo", this person dressed up as an armadillo.
Who was David Schwimmer/Ross Geller?
800
While Saint Nicholas rewards well-behaved children with small gifts on Christmastime, this character punishes badly-behaved ones with birch rods.
Who is Krampus?
This German/Austrian counterpart of Santa Claus is half-goat/half-demon (from the German word Krampen, which means “claw.”)
800
Number of musician presents given during the full 12 Days of Christmas
What is 34 ?
22 pipers on the 11th and 12th day; and
12 drummers on the 12th day
800
Popular Christmas dessert made from layers of sponge cake, custard, and whipped cream, often topped with fruit and nuts
What is trifle?
800
Sing the next 3 lines to complete the full stanza the way Theodore would sing it...
“All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"
(Note: You will NOT receive points if not sung like Theodore)
What is...
"My two front teeth, see my two front teeth
Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth
Then I could wish you Merry Christmas”"
Full points ONLY if sung like a chipmunk 😊
(All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth)
900
In the song "Santa Baby", color of the '54 convertible which Eartha Kitt asks Santa to bring her?
What is light blue?
900
The name of the General in the movie "White Christmas" who Bing Crosby and friends are trying to help.
Who is Major General Thomas F. Waverly (played by Dean Jagger)
(And Bing Crosby's friends were played by Danny Kaye/Rosemary Clooney/Vera-Ellen)
900
In the Christmas abbreviation "X-mas”, the “X” is derived from this Greek letter.
What is "Chi"?
The X comes from the Greek letter Chi which looks like an X and has been used as an abbreviation for Christ. In Greek, Christ is often written Xp (Chi Rho)
900
Age at which you become an adult according to Mel Torme’s “The Christmas Song”
What is 93 ?
The exact lyric is: "And so I'm offering this simple phrase, for kids from one to 92."
900
Famous fast food restaurant that people from Japan love to order from for a Christmas Eve meal.
What is KFC?
This practice originated from a successful marketing campaign in the 1970s and has become so popular that customers often need to place their orders weeks in advance to secure their holiday chicken.
The official story goes that a foreign customer came to a KFC on Christmas day and explained that they couldn't get a turkey, so a bucket of chicken would have to do. This story was then shared with higher-ups and a marketing blitz was born.
900
Sing the next 3 lines...
“You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen…”
What is...
“… Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?”
(Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)
1000
What the shepherd boy said to the mighty king in this Christmas carol written as a plea for peace during the Cuban missile crisis.
What is "Do you know what I know?" ?
From "Do You Hear What I Hear" written Noel Regney & Gloria Shayne (1962).
Lyrics as follows...
Said the night wind to the little lamb: "Do you see what I see?"
Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy: "Do you hear what I hear?"
Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king: "Do you know what I know?"
Said the king to the people everywhere: "Listen to what I say!"
1000
In the TV Show "The Office", she sings karaoke renditions of her favorite Christmas song, "The Little Drummer Boy"
Who is Angela Martin (played by Angela Kinsey)
1000
RANDOM DAILY DOUBLE
(Double the points in this block)
Entire team must dance in a Conga Line around the room (starting and ending at your table), to the beat of a Christmas carol.
1000
A holiday by any other name – number of different ways “Hanukkah” is formally spelled in the English language
What is 16 ?
They are: Hanukkah, Chanukah, Hanukah, Hannukah, Chanuka, Channukkah, Chanukka, Hanukka, Hannuka, Hannukkah, Channuka, Xanuka, Hannukka, Channukkah, Channukka, and Chanuqa -> With “Hanukkah” as the most commonly used spelling
1000
RANDOM DAILY DOUBLE
(Double the points in this block)
Entire team must sing at the top of your voice the first verse and refrain of "Jingle Bells"
1000
Sing the next line...
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart…”
What is...
“… But the very next day, you gave it away”
(Wham’s “Last Christmas”)