Jump to content

Game #3 - Christmas Trivia


Kanyon71

Recommended Posts

Noel today means Christmas, Christmas carol, Christmas Season, etc.  However, the original Latin meaning was natal meant Birth or Birthday.

 

 

 

What was the first song to be broadcast from space in 1965? Hint.....its a Christmas Carol

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Answer: Cranberry Sauce?

 

Question: What large former retail outlet commissioned and published Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

Answer : Montgomery Ward 

 

Quote : In what decade did NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, formerly CONAD) start tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?

It was actually 1670 in Germany. :)

What...well I tried. That one has so many different dates every where

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Answer : Montgomery Ward 

 

Quote : In what decade did NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, formerly CONAD) start tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?

What...well I tried. That one has so many different dates every where

Ya that's kind of why I decided on it. To be tricky lol

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Answer : Montgomery Ward 

 

Quote : In what decade did NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, formerly CONAD) start tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?

What...well I tried. That one has so many different dates every where

 

Answer:  December 24, 1955

 

 

Question:   Visions of which sweet foodstuff danced in children’s heads as they slept, according to Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “‘Twas the Night before Christmas”?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Answer:  December 24, 1955

 

 

Question:   Visions of which sweet foodstuff danced in children’s heads as they slept, according to Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “‘Twas the Night before Christmas”?

Answer : Sugar Plums 

 

Quote: How were the writer of the story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the writer of the song Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer related?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Answer : Sugar Plums 

 

Quote: How were the writer of the story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the writer of the song Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer related?

Answer: Brother-in-law

 

Question: In the movie A Christmas Story what was the name of the family whose dog's ate the Christmas Turkey?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Answer: Brother-in-law

 

Question: In the movie A Christmas Story what was the name of the family whose dog's ate the Christmas Turkey?

 

Answer: Bumpuses (Sp?)

 

Question: What day is a close second and sometimes surpasses Black Friday for busiest brick and mortar shopping day of the year?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Answer: Bumpuses (Sp?)

 

Question: What day is a close second and sometimes surpasses Black Friday for busiest brick and mortar shopping day of the year?

 

 

Well I had several guesses for this one....1. small business saturday, 2. Christmas eve, 3..... so I admit I had to look it up to find out.

 

Answer: The last Saturday before Christmas (a.k.a Super Saturday)

 

Nice questions!

 

 

Question: Who created the first electric light Christmas display?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well I had several guesses for this one....1. small business saturday, 2. Christmas eve, 3..... so I admit I had to look it up to find out.

 

Answer: The last Saturday before Christmas (a.k.a Super Saturday)

 

Nice questions!

 

 

Question: Who created the first electric light Christmas display?

Answer : Thomas Edison 

 

Question : When did outdoor Christmas lights begin. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Answer : Thomas Edison 

 

Question : When did outdoor Christmas lights begin. 

 

Answer: I hope this still counts as I cheated and looked it up!  Either 1880 with Thomas Edison's first outdoor light display or 1890 with first strings of lights mass produced and sold.

Question:  Who is credited with creating the first Nativity scene (creche)?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Blame St. Francis of Assisi, who is credited with staging the first nativity scene in 1223. The only historical account we have of Francis' nativity scene comes from The Life of St. Francis of Assisi by St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan monk who was born five years before Francis' death

 

Question what year did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer premier on TV

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Blame St. Francis of Assisi, who is credited with staging the first nativity scene in 1223. The only historical account we have of Francis' nativity scene comes from The Life of St. Francis of Assisi by St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan monk who was born five years before Francis' death

 

Question what year did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer premier on TV

Answer: 1964

 

Question : who created frosty the snowman

Link to comment
Share on other sites

×
×
  • Create New...