Saturday, December 20, 2008

Christmas Trivia

Ingredients

  • Christmas Tree Cutouts

  • Tape

  • Pencils

  • Paper

To Play

  • Write questions related to Christmas on little green Christmas tree cutouts, number them, and tape them to the walls around the party room.

  • Provide your guests with pencil and paper, and have them write down their answer to the numbered questions throughout the party.

  • At the end of the party, read off the answer and see which guest got the most points for a prize!

Sample Questions:

  • What are the names of Santa's eight reindeer? (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.)

  • What is a buche de Noel? (An edible yule log)

  • What do bad little boys get for Christmas? (Switches and lumps of coal)

  • Finish the song line: "All I want for Christmas is . . . (my two front teeth.)

  • Who was caught kissing Santa Claus? (Mommy)

  • How do you say Merry Christmas in Spanish? (Feliz Navidad.) In French? (Joyeux Noel.)

  • What did Frosty the Snowman have for a nose? (A button.)

  • Who wrote "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"? (Clement Clarke Moore.)

  • What is the last line in Moore's poem? ("Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.")

  • What is a tannebaum? (Christmas tree in German.)

  • What did the Three Wise Men bring? (Gold, frankincense, and myrrh.)

  • On the twelfth day of Christmas, what did "my true love give to me"? (Twelve fiddlers fiddling, eleven lords a-leaping, ten ladies dancing, nine pipers piping, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.)