Quiz Number #424 Christmas
Round 2
Entertainment
1. Actor link: Die Hard | Snow Cake | Love Actually
Alan Rickman
2. In which film does Arnold Schwarzenegger play Howard Langston esperately trying to purchase a Turbo-Man action figure on Christmas Eve?
Audio Clip – Jingle All The Way
3. Who has presented TV shows such as Cash in the Attic & Escape to the Country and has released over 20 albums over the years?
Aled Jones
4. Which singer, with a festive sounding name was lead vocalist for the band T’Pau?
Carol Decker
5. Who played the part of Margo Leadbetter on TV?
Penelope Keith
Blockbusters
1. Which CM is known as Weihnachtsmarkt in Germany & Austria?
Christmas Market
2. Which SD is the Quality Street sweet in the red wrapper?
Strawberry Delight
3. Which LA performed the song for the Bear & The Hare John Lewis advert?
Lily Allen
4. What EG is the Spanish annual Christmas lottery that offers €2.5b in prize money?
El Gordo
5. Which BR was a Christmas Number 1 in 1975, then again in 1991?
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Round 1
1. Which of these cities is not in Turkey? Izmir |Bursa | Safi | Istanbul
Safi <
2. December solstice will take place at 15.58 on which date this year?
21st Dec
3. Christmas Jumper Day is an annual charity event that raises money for which charity?
Save The Children
4. Which choirmaster achieved a Christmas number 1 with the Military Wives in 2011?
Gareth Malone
5. Which island is mentioned in the opening verse of “Donald Where’s Your Troosers?”?
Skye
6. Which year did the Queen made her first Christmas broadcast?
1952
7. A lateral flow test will display lines next to the letters C & T. What do these letters stand for?
Control /. Test
8. Who was named as BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021?
Emma Raducanu
9. TF: Christmas Island was named that by the explorer Willem Janszoon, because of the vast amounts of holly & misltetoe growing on the beach?
FALSE
10. TF: Matt Hancock is the president of the AHDB, which is statutory levy board that controls National Mistletoe Wholesale Consortium?
FALSE
Final Round
1. The organisation NORAD run the live Santa tracker on Christmas Eve. What does NORAD stand for?
North American Aerospace Defense Command
2. What is the first line to Winter Wonderland (6 words)
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
3. Which poem by Christina Rossetti is commonly performed as a Christmas carol, with famous versions by Gustav Holst & Harold Darke
In the Bleak Midwinter
4. Carabosse is a wicked witch villain in which pantomime?
Sleeping Beauty
5. TF: A female reindeer is called a cow?
TRUE
6. What was the name of the singing family in The Sound of Music?
Trapp
7. Matterhorn appears on which products packaging?
Toblerone
8. Danvers & Imperators are types of which vegetable?
Carrot
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Countdown –
Mince Shy – Chimneys
Tie Break:
How old is Shakin Stevens?
73
