Christmas Quiz HAVO

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2,3

Christmas around the World

• Have you ever spent Christmas in a different country?  If so, was it very different to how you usually spend Christmas? 

• How much do you know about what happens at Christmas around the world?

 In groups of 3, browse the internet to find the information about Christmas in:

Great Britain and the USA

Focus on 3 main categories: DECORATIONS, FOOD, TRADITIONS (ACTIVITIES)

Christmas Quiz

What is the official celebration of Christmas about?

1. The birth of Christ
2. The birth of Ghandi
3. Family
4. The cutting of the Christmas tree

Which 2 colors represent Christmas?

1. Green and red
2. Blue and red
3. Green and gold
4. Purple and green

stocking

Christmas elves

turkey

Christmas tree

crib

Christmas pudding

mince pies

Christmas cracker

chimney

There are 365 days in a year.What number is Christmas Day?

1. 355
2. 358
3. 359
4. 360

When is Boxing Day?

1. 24 December
2. 25 December
3. 26 December
4. 5 December

How many turkeys get eaten in the USA every Christmas?

1. 22 million
2. 44 million
3. 66 million
4. 88 million

What is this?

1. A Christmas present
2. A Christmas cracker
3. A stocking filler
4. Christmas fireworks

christmas trees

1. much
2. many

what is the original purpose of Christmas baubles in a Christmas tree?

1. To scare off evil ghosts
2. to show that you're rich
3. To mimic fruit
4. To please Santa

What is Christmas pudding?

1. A sort of icecream
2. A dessert (dried fruit, egg, suet & spices)

What is a Christmas carol?

1. A Christmas song
2. A Christmas poem
3. A woman dressed up as Santa.
4. A Christmas story

Where are Christmas carols originally sung?

1. On people's doorstep
2. Around the fireplace
3. In shopping malls
4. In the bedroom

How many cities in the United States are called 'Santa Claus'?

1. 0
2. 2
3. 3
4. 5

Which name is NOT one of Santa's reindeer?

1. Comet
2. Prancer
3. Cupido
4. Dasher

What is the name of the most famous reindeer of them all?

1. Dasher
2. Dancer
3. Vixen
4. Rudolph

What is the name of the
snowman in Frozen

1. Sven
2. Otis
3. Olaf
4. Hans

What present does Harry Potter receive during his first Christmas at Hogwarts?

1. An invisibility cloak
2. An owl
3. A wand
4. A cauldron

Harrods aims at the rich and famous, but tourists like going there too.
What is Harrods ?

1. A warehouse
2. A department store
3. A museum
4. A restaurant

Who wrote "A Christmas Carol"?

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Charles Dickens
4. William Shakespeare

What is the first name of Scrooge, the protagonist in "A Christmas Carol"?

Driving .. for Christmas

1. Back
2. Far away
3. Slow
4. Home

What happens under a mistletoe?

1. People do a dance
2. People kiss
3. People sing Christmas songs
4. People get married

What is this song "Last Christmas" about?

1. spending time with love ones
2. a secret affaire
3. what happened last Christmas
4. being with the wrong person

What does Mariah Carey actually want according to the song ? ?

Replace the last word of this sentence in the song with a word that rhymes and still fits the song........

In which year did Mariah Carey first release this song?

1. 2001
2. 2008
3. 1994
4. 1989

Which song is most populair (1) and least populair ( 2)? 

1

5

All I want for christmas is you- Mariah Carey

Last Christmas-Wham!

Santa Tell Me-Ariana grande

It's beginning to look a lot like christmas-Michael Buble

Mistletoe-Justin bieber

What are your plans for
the Christmas Break?

1. sleep in as often as possible
2. eat too much
3. catch up on schoolwork
4. all of the above