Q 01/05

On which date is Christmas in July usually celebrated?

A) The 25th

B) The 4th

C) The 1st

D) The 31st

Answer · why

A) The 25th

It is exactly six months from Christmas Day, which is also why some Italians hold a summer Christmas on June 25 instead.

Q 02/05

Which part of the world has the most practical reason for a July Christmas, since it is midwinter there?

A) The Arctic Circle

B) The Southern Hemisphere

C) The equator

D) The Northern Hemisphere

Answer · why

B) The Southern Hemisphere

Australia, New Zealand and South Africa hold Midwinter Christmas events with a cold-weather feel, then celebrate the real thing in the summer heat on ...

Q 03/05

Which 1892 French opera has children rehearsing a Christmas carol out of season?

A) Carmen

B) Werther

C) Manon

D) Faust

Answer · why

B) Werther

Massenet's opera is based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther; a character scolds the children that singing Christmas in July is rushing the seas...

Q 04/05

The first Christmas in July celebration, in 1933, was at Keystone Camp, a girls' camp in which state?

A) Michigan

B) Vermont

C) North Carolina

D) Colorado

Answer · why

C) North Carolina

Co-founder Fannie Holt dreamed it up for the campers at Brevard; a Camp Fire Girls camp in New York's Ramapo Mountains was doing the same by 1935.

Q 05/05

Which writer-director's 1940 comedy Christmas in July gave the phrase national attention?

A) Ernst Lubitsch

B) Frank Capra

C) Billy Wilder

D) Preston Sturges

Answer · why

D) Preston Sturges

He shot it, by one biographer's account, wearing a straw boater and carrying a bamboo cane, and it followed his political satire The Great McGinty.