Quiztime

Up at "The Hammer" last night it was rather chaotic. First of all, there were quite a lot of people in and secondly the pub was understaffed. Some customers were finishing meals and others had turned up specially for the regular Sunday night quiz. There were also three pet dogs sniffing about and getting under people's feet.

The special Christmas quiz had been devised by Rebecca, the twenty-something assistant manager and I had the strong impression that she had never created a pub quiz before. On the whole, her questions were too damned hard and all the time she was posing her questions over the temperamental sound system, she was also serving at the bar. This meant that there were long, frustrating pauses in the process.

Then at around eighty thirty something happened that nobody was expecting. The vicar from nearby All Saints Church appeared with about twelve members of his congregation. They had carol sheets for pubgoers to follow and in the middle of the quiz a few of us joined in but most didn't. There was no musical accompaniment and it all seemed rather pointless.

In spite of this ropy experience, I feel inspired to create a  Christmas-themed  quiz for  "Yorkshire Pudding" visitors so let's go. Answers will be given in the "Comments" section.

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1) After The Virgin Mary had given birth to Baby Jesus, she placed him in a "manger" but what is a "manger"?
(a) a kind of Palestinian water trough 

(b) a wooden  trough from which animals feed 

(c) a crude box with legs for storing vegetables 

(d) a simply made baby's crib

2) Name the actor shown below. He starred in the successful 2003 Christmas film "Elf".

3) Which Scandinavian capital city sends a large Christmas tree to London every year? It is then put up in Trafalgar Square.

(a) Copenhagen (b) Stockholm (c) Helsinki (d) Oslo

4)  Here comes the chorus of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You"....but what is the missing line?

Oh, I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know

Make  my .....................................................
Oh, baby, all I want for Christmas is you
You, baby

5) This is a scene from a popular British Christmas pantomime but what is the title of the panto?

6) Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer  pulls Santa's sleigh with several other reindeer but only one of them has a name beginning with the letter "V". Name that reindeer.

7) In the carol,  "Once in Royal David's City" what is referred to in the second line?

(a) a holy citadel (b) an inn without a vacant room     

(c) a lowly cattle shed  (d) the road to Bethlehem

8) In which European country did the tradition of decorating Christmas trees begin?

9) In America, Spike Jones and His City Slickers  had a big Christmas hit in 1948 with  "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two ___  ____". Complete the title.

10) Charlie Chaplin died at his home in Switzerland on Christmas Day, 1977 but how old was he?

(a) 77  (b) 80  (c)  88 (d) 95

How did you do?