1. Who sang the opening line of “Do They Know It’s Christmas” as part of Band Aid II in 1989?

2. What fruit is used to make a Christingle?

3. What gifts did the Wise Men bring for the baby Jesus?

4. Who composed the music known as The Nutcracker Suite, for the Christmas themed ballet The Nutcracker, premiered in St Petersburg, 1892?

5. Which English leader banned Christmas during his rule in the 17th century?

6. What is the alcoholic liquor used to make the classic Christmas cocktail a Snowball?

7. Who wrote Auld Lange Syne?

8. In the movie Home Alone, what is the name of the character played by Maculay Culkin?

9. What is the name of Scrooge’s long suffering assistant in A Christmas Carol?

10. How many maids-a-milking are there in the Christmas song, 12 Days of Christmas?

11. Which poem, written by Clement C Moore, first named Santa's reindeer?

12. On what date does Twelfth Night fall?

13. Which song was heard on both sides of the trenches on Christmas Eve 1914?

14. What plant associated with Christmas has the Latin name Viscum Album?

15. Who took the coveted Number One spot in 2011?

16. Who was the first British monarch to broadcast a Christmas message to the nation?

17. What is the chemical formula of snow?

18. In Victorian England what people were popularly called robins because of their red uniforms?

19. What Dr Seuss character steals Christmas?

20. British children hang stockings up for Santa, what do Dutch children put out?

21. Where was it always winter but never Christmas?

22. What film is about a magical train takes a boy and other children who stop believing in Santa Claus up north to meet the man himself?

23. Who played Scrooge in 'A Muppet Christmas Carol'?

24. The song White Christmas was first performed in which 1942 film?

25. Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is a territory of which country?