12 Days of Christmas
Movies and Shows
Oh Christmas Tree
Songs and Stories
Dates and Numbers
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In the song The 12 Days of Christmas, the lyrics "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" represent who?

Who is Jesus?

100

The 3 words that best describe the Grinch in the TV classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas

What are "Stink, stank, stunk"?

100

The place where Kevin McCallister joyfully and surprisingly reunites with his Mom in the movie Home Alone 2

Where or what is the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree?

100

Describe Santa's cheeks and nose in the, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas poem.

What are his cheeks were like roses and his nose like a cherry?

100

It marks the four Sundays before Christmas.

What is Advent? (The coming of Christ)

200

The gifts given to Jesus on the 12th day of Christmas by the Magi.

What are gold, frankincense, and myrrh? (Gold represents Jesus' Kingship, frankincense represets his holiness and devine nature, and myrrh foreshadows death as it was used in embalming),

200

In the 1964 classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, this is the name of Rudolph's female doe companion.

Who is Clarice?

200

Fill in the blank:  Linus said to Charlie Brown about his Christmas Tree, "It's not bad at all.  Maybe it ............" to Charlie Brown about his Christmas Tree.

What is "just needs a little love"?

200

The name of the mysterious individual who gave a litle girl named Clara the gift of a Nutcracker.

Who is Drosselmeyer?

200

The number of times the number 1 appears on an advent calendar with 24 date pockets, doors, or boxes?

What is 13? (1, 10, 11 count one twice, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21)

300

The dates of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

What are the dates December 25 to January 6?

300

The name of the neighbors with the rowdy dogs in A Christmas Story.

Who are The Bumpuses?

300

The person credited for popularizing the use of Christmas trees in England and beyond its borders.

Who is Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria? (after a widely distributed engraving showed them and their children around a tree in 1848.)   

More Trivia = German-born Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III, Grandmother of Prince Albert is the first to use a Christmas Tree in her house in England at Queen's Lodge, Windsor, in December 1800.

300

The names of Santa Claus' reindeer pulling his sleigh when it stormy.

What are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph?

300

The total number of gifts in the song or poem "The 12 Days of Christmas". 

What is 364 gifts?  (when addeded cumulatively)

400

It is celebrated on the 12th Day of Christmas or January 6 to commemorate the manifestation of Jesus Christ to the World.

What is The Epiphany?

400

The first and last name of the girl in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, whose famous line was "every time a bell rings, an angel get its wings".

Who is Zuzu Bailey?

400

The person credited to be the first to use Christmas trees in the house.

Who is Martin Luther?  (Legend has it that this famous German Christian reformer saw a twinkling starry sky above and through the evergreens while on a winter walk, and so he brought a small fir into his house and put a candle(s) on it to represent the Star of Bethlehem and the Light of the Holy Spirit.)

400

Based on sales and chart performances, the top 5 selling versions of this song was performed by Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Bruce Springsteen, The Jackson 5, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.

What is Santa Claus is Coming to Town?

400

The total number of "la"s in the song "Deck the Halls" if including all 12 repetitions.

What are 96 "La"s? (there are 12 repetitions of the phrase "fa la la la la la la la la", so 8x12)

500

On the First Noel, according to the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 2, a multitude of the heavenly host appeared, praising God and saying...

What is "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men"?

500

In the movie, Miracle on 34th Street, (1947), these 2 US Government Agencies were used to prove that Santa Claus is real.

What are the US Post Office and the US Treasury? (The US Post Office came with several delivery bags holding millions of letters addressed to Santa Claus, and on the card that Susan took to the Judge during the trial "In God we trust" was circled on the bill in red to show the US Treasury puts their trust in God, even if no direct proof.)

500

One of the two inventors of electric lights on a Christmas tree.

Who are Thomas Edison and Edward Hibberd Johnson?  (While Thomas Edison developed the practical incandescent light bulb and demonstrated electic lights for decoration as early as 1880, it was Johnson, Edison's friend and partner in the Edison's Illumination Company, who first applied them directly to a Christmas tree.)

500

in Charles Dickens' story A Christmas Carol, this is the name of Ebeneezer Scrooge's deceased business partner appearing burdened with heavy chains and warning he'll be visited by 3 spirits.

Who Jacob Marley?

500

One of the Gospels and its verse where the Biblical Christmas Story is primarily found and recited.

What are the Gospel of Matthew 1:18-25 or 2:1-12 or the Gospel of Luke 1:26 - 2:21?