Christmas Trivia Questions For a Great Christmas Quiz

A Christmas quiz has always been popular and is a great way to attract seasonal customers into your pub, bar or social club. In fact, hospitals and convalescent homes also run Christmas quizzes because there is something about them appeals to people.

Maybe it’s the fact that it’s the festive season and the way people expect to feel more jolly then, or perhaps some other reason, but many people will enjoy answering Christmas trivia questions yet run a mile if they were asked to take part in a trivia quiz at any other time of the year. This is in spite of the fact that many questions in Christmas quizzes are general knowledge, with only a fleeting association with the real message of this time of year.

A question such as “In what modern country did Noah’s Ark finally come to rest after the flood?” The answer is Turkey, and has an association with Turkey only in that people eat them at Christmas (turkeys, not Turks).

A similar example of Christmas trivia is the question “On what date in 1223 did St. Francis of Assisi assemble the first Nativity scene?” Most would never have clue about the answer to this, but it is a Christmas Quiz, so why not take an educated guess at December 25th? And you would be correct.

So the very fact that we are dealing with Christmas trivia questions should enable us to take a guess at the answer with a good chance of getting them right. Not all answers will be December 25th, but knowing the topic narrows the choices down considerably, and that is one reason why more people will enter your Christmas quiz than just any old pub quiz.

Quiz nights are popular with many families in December. Generally, however, the questions are a bit too difficult for those not used to regular quizzes. You could always buy a quiz and add a few easier questions of your own, or even add these to a harder quiz you already have.

The problem with quizzes is that there is a divide between those that quiz regularly and those that do not, and the regular quizzer will not be worried by questions that others would find difficult – especially at Christmas when many of them will study the popular questions often asked in a Christmas quiz so they will be better prepared than ordinary people.

If you are considering hosting a Christmas quiz, you will need to keep the questions close to the capabilities of your customers. This is not easy to do, and most amateurs tend to pitch the questions either far too difficult or too easy. They take the view that if they can answer the questions themselves, and then it must be at the right level. Anybody can spot the false logic in that, and it is both easier and potentially more lucrative to pay for your Christmas trivia questions – or even for an entire Christmas quiz.

That is because if you set a bad quiz that is either too easy or too hard for the entrants you will have blown it for any future quizzes. There’s nothing wrong with purchasing quizzes, and then slipping a few rounds of your own into them and seeing how they are accepted. Who knows – you might be a quiz-compiling Laureate, but you have to test your abilities before you burn your boats for the future.

There is no knack to setting Christmas quizzes, but there is setting them neither too easy nor too hard. I was doing well in one memorable quiz I took part in until the final question: to name the entire Welsh rugby team that had just beaten France (the quiz was held in Blaenavon, Wales). There’s a potential swing of 15-20 points on that one very specialized question alone, and this is how you should not set a quiz.

A Christmas quiz should not be too sports-oriented. Most people like music and movies with a seasonal theme, and you should have one round on the real Christmas message. So get going and we wish the very best of success in getting together some fabulous Christmas trivia questions.