Q 01/05

The Christmas truce took place during which year of the First World War?

A) 1916

B) 1917

C) 1915

D) 1914

Answer · why

D) 1914

The Christmas truce came in 1914, the war's first December: informal ceasefires along the Western Front brought carols, gift swaps and joint burials.

Q 02/05

Which country's 1970s advertising campaign turned KFC fried chicken into a national Christmas custom?

A) South Korea

B) Japan

C) Finland

D) Chile

Answer · why

B) Japan

In Japan, a successful 1970s ad campaign made eating KFC around Christmas a national custom, so effective that by the 2020s families were booking buck...

Q 03/05

Who composed the song "White Christmas"?

A) Cole Porter

B) Hoagy Carmichael

C) Johnny Mercer

D) Irving Berlin

Answer · why

D) Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas"; Bing Crosby's recording became the best-selling single of all time, and the song won the Academy Award for Best...

Q 04/05

'Silent Night', first sung in 1818, was added to which organisation's intangible cultural heritage list in 2011?

A) Europa Nostra

B) UNESCO

C) The Vatican

D) The Council of Europe

Answer · why

B) UNESCO

UNESCO declared the carol intangible cultural heritage in 2011, nearly two centuries after it was first sung.

Q 05/05

Boxing Day's name is most often traced back to what?

A) Packing crates at docks

B) Boxed shop displays

C) Boxing matches held after church

D) Church alms boxes

Answer · why

D) Church alms boxes

One leading theory points to the alms box in a church narthex, opened to distribute collections to the poor.