Q 01/05

If every gift in The Twelve Days of Christmas is repeated daily, how many gifts are sent in total?

A) 78

B) 364

C) 144

D) 280

Answer · why

B) 364

364 gifts in all: each day's presents are repeated on every later day, so the twelve cumulative verses add up to 364, one short of a full year.

Q 02/05

How many gold rings are given in The Twelve Days of Christmas?

A) 2

B) 5

C) 3

D) 4

Answer · why

B) 5

The 1780 text says "gold"; "golden" caught on in North America after Mitch Miller's 1961 recording.

Q 03/05

How many reindeer pull Santa's sleigh in the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas?

A) 9

B) 10

C) 8

D) 12

Answer · why

C) 8

The poem introduced most of the modern Santa; Rudolph did not join the team until 1939.

Q 04/05

In what year was A Visit from St. Nicholas first published?

A) 1837

B) 1851

C) 1823

D) 1868

Answer · why

C) 1823

1823: the poem appeared anonymously in the Troy Sentinel on 23 December that year; Clement Clarke Moore acknowledged it in 1837, though some scholars ...

Q 05/05

Rudolph is usually counted as which number reindeer on Santa's team?

A) 6th

B) 9th

C) 7th

D) 8th

Answer · why

B) 9th

He is the youngest as well, and his nose leads the sleigh on foggy Christmas Eves.