Christmas Literature & A Christmas Carol Trivia

Christmas Literature & A Christmas Carol Trivia

1. 1.Who wrote A Christmas Carol?easy

   Answer: Charles Dickens

2. 2.What is Scrooge's first name?easy

   Answer: Ebenezer

3. 3.Who was Scrooge's deceased business partner?medium

   Answer: Jacob Marley

4. 4.How many ghosts visit Scrooge (including Marley)?medium

   Answer: Four

5. 5.What is Tiny Tim's famous line?easy

   Answer: God bless us, every one!

6. 6.In what year was A Christmas Carol published?hard

   Answer: 1843

7. 7.Who wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas!?easy

   Answer: Dr. Seuss

8. 8.'Twas the Night Before Christmas is attributed to whom?medium

   Answer: Clement Clarke Moore

9. 9.What was the original title of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas?medium

   Answer: A Visit from St. Nicholas

10. 10.Who wrote The Nutcracker and the Mouse King?hard

    Answer: E.T.A. Hoffmann

11. 11.Which O. Henry story features a couple selling prized possessions for gifts?medium

    Answer: The Gift of the Magi

12. 12.In Little Women, what does Jo say about Christmas in the opening line?hard

    Answer: Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents

13. 13.Who is Scrooge's loyal clerk?easy

    Answer: Bob Cratchit

14. 14.Which children's book series features a lion and 'always winter but never Christmas'?medium

    Answer: The Chronicles of Narnia

15. 15.What is the name of Scrooge's nephew?medium

    Answer: Fred

16. 16.What does Scrooge buy for the Cratchits on Christmas morning?easy

    Answer: A prize turkey

17. 17.Which ghost shows Scrooge his own gravestone?easy

    Answer: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

18. 18.What is Scrooge's famous dismissive phrase?easy

    Answer: Bah! Humbug!

19. 19.What does Marley's ghost wear?medium

    Answer: Chains made of cash-boxes, keys and ledgers

20. 20.What is the name of Scrooge's former employer?medium

    Answer: Mr. Fezziwig

21. 21.What was the name of Scrooge's lost fiancée?hard

    Answer: Belle

22. 22.What two children hide under the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present?hard

    Answer: Ignorance and Want

23. 23.Who wrote 'The Polar Express' picture book?medium

    Answer: Chris Van Allsburg

24. 24.Who wrote 'The Little Match Girl'?medium

    Answer: Hans Christian Andersen

25. 25.Which Andersen fairy tale features Kai and Gerda?medium

    Answer: The Snow Queen

26. 26.Who wrote 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'?hard

    Answer: Dylan Thomas

27. 27.In which book does Father Christmas give the Pevensie children gifts?medium

    Answer: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

28. 28.Which author wrote the 'Letters from Father Christmas' to his children?hard

    Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

29. 29.What sweet do the Grinch's Whos feast on?medium

    Answer: Roast beast (and Who-pudding)

30. 30.How many sizes did the Grinch's heart grow?easy

    Answer: Three

31. 31.In Harry Potter, what does Mrs. Weasley knit for Harry every Christmas?easy

    Answer: A Weasley jumper (sweater)

32. 32.What Christmas gift does Harry receive from Dumbledore in his first year?medium

    Answer: His father's Invisibility Cloak

33. 33.Who wrote 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'?hard

    Answer: Barbara Robinson

34. 34.What is the full original title of A Christmas Carol?hard

    Answer: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

35. 35.In The Night Before Christmas, what were the children dreaming of?easy

    Answer: Sugar plums

36. 36.Which Dickens character is a crippled boy with a crutch?easy

    Answer: Tiny Tim

37. 37.Who wrote 'The Gift of the Magi'?medium

    Answer: O. Henry

38. 38.What did Della sell in 'The Gift of the Magi'?medium

    Answer: Her hair

39. 39.What is the first line of A Christmas Carol?hard

    Answer: Marley was dead: to begin with.

40. 40.What does Scrooge call Christmas?easy

    Answer: A humbug

41. 41.What is Scrooge's business?medium

    Answer: A counting-house (moneylending)

42. 42.What is the name of Bob Cratchit's wife?hard

    Answer: Mrs. Cratchit (Emily in some adaptations)

43. 43.What illness did Tiny Tim have?hard

    Answer: Unspecified — he was lame and sickly

44. 44.What does Scrooge become at the end?easy

    Answer: Generous and kind ('a second father' to Tiny Tim)

45. 45.What did the Ghost of Christmas Past look like?hard

    Answer: A child-like old man with a light from its head

46. 46.What does Scrooge use to extinguish the Ghost of Christmas Past?hard

    Answer: Its cap (extinguisher-cap)

47. 47.Where did Scrooge go to school in the vision?medium

    Answer: A boarding school where he was left alone

48. 48.Who is Scrooge's sister?hard

    Answer: Fan (Fred's mother)

49. 49.What does the Ghost of Christmas Present look like?medium

    Answer: A jolly green-robed giant

50. 50.How many brothers does the Ghost of Christmas Present have?hard

    Answer: More than 1,800

51. 51.What does the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come do?medium

    Answer: Points silently

52. 52.What does Scrooge see people stealing after his death?hard

    Answer: His bed curtains and belongings

53. 53.What does Scrooge shout from his window on Christmas morning?medium

    Answer: What's today?

54. 54.What day did Scrooge wake up on?easy

    Answer: Christmas Day

55. 55.Which Dickens novella followed A Christmas Carol in 1844?hard

    Answer: The Chimes

56. 56.What was Dickens trying to highlight in A Christmas Carol?medium

    Answer: Poverty and social injustice

57. 57.How long did it take Dickens to write A Christmas Carol?hard

    Answer: About six weeks

58. 58.Who published A Christmas Carol in 1843?hard

    Answer: Chapman & Hall

59. 59.What was the story 'The Night Before Christmas' first published in?hard

    Answer: The Troy Sentinel (1823)

60. 60.In 'The Night Before Christmas', what was Santa dressed in?medium

    Answer: Fur, from his head to his foot

61. 61.What was Santa's belly like in the poem?easy

    Answer: Like a bowlful of jelly

62. 62.What did Santa smoke in the poem?medium

    Answer: A pipe

63. 63.What were the stockings hung by?easy

    Answer: The chimney, with care

64. 64.What did the narrator wear in the poem?hard

    Answer: A kerchief (mamma) and cap (narrator)

65. 65.What did Santa say as he drove out of sight?medium

    Answer: Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

66. 66.Which Dr. Seuss character is 'a mean one'?easy

    Answer: The Grinch

67. 67.In The Grinch book, how old is Cindy-Lou Who?hard

    Answer: No more than two

68. 68.What year was How the Grinch Stole Christmas! published?hard

    Answer: 1957

69. 69.What does the Grinch take from the Whos?easy

    Answer: Presents, food, trees and decorations

70. 70.Why did the Grinch hate Christmas, possibly?easy

    Answer: His heart was two sizes too small

71. 71.Who wrote 'The Snowman' wordless picture book?medium

    Answer: Raymond Briggs

72. 72.Who wrote 'Father Christmas' (1973), the grumpy Santa book?hard

    Answer: Raymond Briggs

73. 73.Who wrote 'The Jolly Postman'?hard

    Answer: Janet and Allan Ahlberg

74. 74.Which Hans Christian Andersen tale has a fir tree that wants to grow up?hard

    Answer: The Fir-Tree

75. 75.What does the Little Match Girl see when she lights matches?medium

    Answer: Visions of warmth, food, a tree and her grandmother

76. 76.In The Snow Queen, what gets in Kai's eye?hard

    Answer: A shard of the troll mirror

77. 77.Which Disney film was inspired by The Snow Queen?easy

    Answer: Frozen

78. 78.Who wrote 'The Nutcracker' version adapted by Dumas?hard

    Answer: Alexandre Dumas

79. 79.What is the girl's name in the Hoffmann Nutcracker story?medium

    Answer: Marie (Clara in the ballet)

80. 80.In Narnia, what is the White Witch's spell?medium

    Answer: Always winter, never Christmas

81. 81.What gift does Lucy receive from Father Christmas?hard

    Answer: A healing cordial and a dagger

82. 82.What gift does Susan receive from Father Christmas?hard

    Answer: A bow, arrows and a horn

83. 83.What gift does Peter receive?medium

    Answer: A sword and a shield

84. 84.What does Edmund trade his loyalty for?medium

    Answer: Turkish Delight

85. 85.Who wrote 'The Christmas Pig' (2021)?medium

    Answer: J.K. Rowling

86. 86.Which Harry Potter book features the Yule Ball?medium

    Answer: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

87. 87.Who does Harry go to the Yule Ball with?hard

    Answer: Parvati Patil

88. 88.What Christmas gift does Ron always get from his mum?medium

    Answer: A maroon jumper

89. 89.In Little Women, what do the March sisters give away on Christmas morning?medium

    Answer: Their breakfast, to the Hummels

90. 90.Who wrote 'Skipping Christmas', later the film Christmas with the Kranks?hard

    Answer: John Grisham

91. 91.Who wrote 'Hogfather', a Discworld Christmas novel?hard

    Answer: Terry Pratchett

92. 92.What is the Discworld's version of Santa?hard

    Answer: The Hogfather

93. 93.Who wrote 'The Polar Express'?medium

    Answer: Chris Van Allsburg

94. 94.What is the poem 'Christmas Bells' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow better known as?hard

    Answer: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

95. 95.Who wrote the poem 'The Oxen' about Christmas Eve?hard

    Answer: Thomas Hardy

96. 96.Who wrote 'Journey of the Magi' poem?hard

    Answer: T.S. Eliot

97. 97.In which Agatha Christie novel does Poirot solve a Christmas murder?hard

    Answer: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

98. 98.What is the Sherlock Holmes Christmas story?hard

    Answer: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

99. 99.What is the blue carbuncle hidden in?hard

    Answer: A Christmas goose

100. 100.Who wrote 'How Murray Saved Christmas'?hard

     Answer: Mike Reiss

101. 101.Who wrote 'Olive, the Other Reindeer'?hard

     Answer: Vivian Walsh

102. 102.What book did 'Elf on the Shelf' come from?medium

     Answer: The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition