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CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
100

THE PLANET MARS HAS THIS MANY MOONS.

WHAT IS TWO?

100

PRO HOCKEY'S OLDEST FRANCHISE, FOUNDED IN 1909.

WHAT IS THE MONTREAL CANADIENS?

100

THE RECORDING ARTIST WHO MADE HISTORY IN 2024 WITH THE MOST CUMULATIVE GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS EVER.

WHO IS BEYONCE?

100

THIS IS THE MOST POPULAR FRUIT FOR CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS.

WHAT IS AN ORANGE?

100

THIS TROPICAL PLANT IS THE OFFICIAL CHRISTMAS FLOWER IN NORTH AMERICA.

WHAT IS THE POINSETTIA?

200

THE LARGEST MAMMAL ON EARTH.

WHAT IS THE BLUE WHALE?

200

SWIMMER MICHAEL PHELPS RACED AGAINST ONE OF THESE ANIMALS IN 2017.

WHAT IS A GREAT WHITE SHARK?

200

THE LONG-TIME MIDDLE EASTERN DICTATOR WHO WAS RECENTLY FORCED TO FLEE HIS COUNTRY AND TAKE ASYLUM IN RUSSIA.

WHO IS BASHAR AL-ASSAD?

200

MILAN MIGHT BE AT THE CENTER OF FASHION, BUT IT IS ALSO THE BIRTHPLACE OF THIS ITALIAN CHRISTMAS CAKE.

WHAT IS PANETTONE?

200

THIS BEVERAGE COMPANY HAS USED SANTA CLAUS IN ITS CHRISTMAS ADVERTISEMENTS SINCE 1931.

WHAT IS COCA-COLA?

300

ROCK FORMED BY RAPIDLY COOLING FROTH AT THE TOP OF A LAVA FLOW.

WHAT IS PUMICE?

300

THIS RACQUET SPORT ORIGINATED ON BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WASHINGTON IN 1965.

WHAT IS PICKLEBALL?

300

THE FAMOUS EUROPEAN CHURCH WHICH WAS RECENTLY REOPENED AFTER A DEVASTATING 2019 FIRE AND SUBSEQUENT 900 MILLION EURO RESTORATION.

WHAT IS THE NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL?

300

THE MAIN COURSE AT CHRISTMAS DINNER IN WHOVILLE.

WHAT IS ROAST BEAST?

300

IN THE ORGINAL "FROSTY THE SNOWMAN" TV SPECIAL, THIS IS THE FIRST THING THAT FROSTY SAYS WHEN HE COMES TO LIFE.

WHAT IS "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

400

THE ONLY METAL THAT IS A LIQUID AT ROOM TEMPERATURE.

WHAT IS MERCURY?

400
THE LEADER IN CYCLING'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS RACE, THE TOUR DE FRANCE, WEARS THIS COLOUR OF JERSEY.

WHAT IS YELLOW?

400

THE AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER THAT FOUND ITSELF IN HOT WATER EARLIER THIS YEAR WHEN A DOOR FELL OFF OF ONE OF ITS PLANES DURING A FLIGHT.

WHAT IS BOEING?

400

A SOMETIMES MALIGNED CHRISTMAS TREAT WHICH WAS FIRST MADE BY THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

WHAT IS FRUITCAKE?

400

THESE THREE GIFTS WERE BROUGHT TO THE BABY JESUS BY THE THREE WISE MEN.

WHAT ARE GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH?

500

THE WORLD'S LARGEST DESERT, RECEIVING LESS THAN 50 MILLIMETRES OF PRECIPITATION ANNUALLY.

WHAT IS ANTARCTICA?

500

REPRESENTING THE DISTANCE FROM MARATHON TO ATHENS IN GREECE, A MODERN MARATHON IS THIS LENGTH.

WHAT IS 26.2 MILES (42.195 KMS)?

500

THE TWO MEN NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP TO HEAD THE NEWLY-CREATED DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY.

WHO ARE ELON MUSK AND VIVEK RAMASWAMY?

500
IN THIS ASIAN COUNTRY IT IS TRADITIONAL TO EAT KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER.

WHAT IS JAPAN?

500

THE COUNTRY CREDITED WITH STARTING THE TRADITION OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE DURING THE 16TH CENTURY.

WHAT IS GERMANY?