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Brighton at Christmas
Seasonal Statistics
Christmas Characters
Festive Funnies
100

Serpent

What is a present?

100

Which annual Brighton event marks the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year?

What is the Burning of the Clocks?
100

Which multinational company standardised the colour red as a feature of how we depict Father Christmas?

What is Coca-Cola?

100

Kevin McCallister

What is Home Alone?

100

Why does Father Christmas have 3 gardens?

What is so he can ho, ho, ho?

200

Tu Can Salsa

What is Santa Claus?

200

Which famous piece of literature about Christmas was read for the first time in public by its author in Brighton Town Hall?

What is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens?

200

Which famous power couple first popularised the Christmas tree in Britain?

Who are Queen Victoria and Prince Albert?

200

Buddy Hobbs

What is Elf?

200

What goes oh, oh, oh?

What is Father Christmas walking backwards?
300

Ahtrew

What is a wreath?

300

Which activity have Brighton residents voted as their favourite to do at Christmas, according to the Argus:

a) Listening to Christmas songs

b) Spending time with family

c) Preparing and eating Christmas dinner?


What is a) Listening to Christmas songs?

300

Which 19th-century carol is the most ever recorded Christmas song, with over 733 different versions copyrighted since 1978 alone?

What is Silent Night?
300

John McClane

What is Die Hard?

300

What's the best thing to give your parents at Christmas?

What is a list of everything you want?

400

Eliotstem

What is mistletoe?

400

Which annual Brighton event has officially been banned by the Council but will go ahead regardless?

What is the Christmas day swim?

400

In which country is it typical to eat KFC as a Christmas meal?

What is Japan?

400

Jack Skellington

What is The Nightmare before Christmas?

400

What do you call a bunch of Grandmasters bragging about their victories in a hotel lobby (at Christmas)?

What is chess nuts boasting in an open foyer?

500

Carentruck

What is a nutcracker?

500

Two of the stars of which reality TV show turned on this year's Christmas lights in Brighton?

What is Googlebox?

500

Father Christmas' reindeer have gone by many different names than the ones that are currently used; which of the following is not a correct earlier pseudonym: Flossie, Glossie, Feckless, Bingo, Fireball

What is Bingo?

500

George Bailey

What is It's a Wonderful Life?

500

Why do Canadians like Turkey so much at Christmas?

What is because it's far warmer there?