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Christmas General Knowledge is a selection of 10 questions. Christmas General Knowledge is the filename to differentiate it from other general knowledge quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 What is the zodiac sign of someone born on Christmas Day?
A Capricorn
2 Which country donates a Christmas tree to London’s Trafalgar Square?
A Norway, in gratitude for Britain’s support for Norway during World War II, every year since 1947
3 Who wrote much of King George V’s first Christmas broadcast, made in 1932?
A Rudyard Kipling.
4 If it avoids an oven, what is a turkey’s normal lifespan?
A Up to 10 years – on factory farms, they are slaughtered when they’re just 5 months old.
5 Is an icicle a Stalagmite or a Stalactite
A Stalactite
6 The Christmas carol “Away In A Manger” … what is a manger?
A A Feeding Trough (or food box)
7 In which year did the first official Christmas Day swim take place at the Serpentine Lido in Hyde Park, London?
A 1864 – The Serpentine takes its name from its snakelike, curving shape, although it only has one bend.
8 Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed on Christmas Day 1989; in which former Communist country was he the President?
A Romania
9 What Christmas-related item was invented by confectioner and baker Tom Smith in 1847?
A The Christmas cracker (On a trip to Paris, he discovered the French ‘bon bon’, a sugared almond wrapped in a twist of tissue paper.) patented his first cracker device in 1847,
10 Why did Oliver Cromwell outlaw the eating of mince pies on Christmas Day in 1644?
A Christmas Day was on a legally-mandated day of fasting.