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Merlin Christmas Quiz Answers
We had two entries with all questions answered correctly so in the spirit of Christmas I have given both Pierre Shepherd and Sandra Payne a free movie pass to see all film screenings at the Merlin for a year.
The question most people got wrong is that Wet, Wet, Wet’s version of Love is All Around featured in Love Actually not Four Weddings and a Funeral.
There were two questions that were controversial. It’s unclear whether the last day of Christmas so 5 or 6 January I allowed both. I also allowed both Matthew or Luke’s as gospels with traditional versions of the Nativity.
Thank you for taking part.
Paula Hammond
Director
1/. What did my true love give to me on the eighth day of Christmas?
Eight Maids a Milking
2/. In what year was Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody a Christmas Number One?
1975
3/ What date is St Nicholas’ Day usually celebrated?
6 December
4/. Would you see, sniff or dance the Aurora Borealis?
See
5/. Which of Santa’s reindeer is the last, alphabetically?
Vixen
6/. What was the Merlin Theatre’s 2006 Christmas panto?
Sleeping Beauty
7/. What is stollen?
Sweet German bread with dried fruit and marzipan
8/. What Christmas item was invented by London Baker and wedding cake specialist, Tom Smith, in 1847?
Christmas Crackers
9/. When is the feast of St Stephen?
26 December
10/. Who saw Mummy kissing Santa Claus?
I did
11/. What colour is Rudolph’s nose?
Red
12/. The 1954 film White Christmas featured a now famous song of the same name who sang it?
Bing Crosby
13/. Who stole Christmas?
The Grinch
14/. When is the last day of Christmas?
I’ll accept either 5 or 6 January
15/. Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
Charles Dickens
16/. Who recorded Do They Know it’s Christmas in 1984?
Band Aid
17/. What did Rumpelstiltskin demand in return for spinning straw into gold?
First Born Child
18/. What liqueur goes into making a snowball cocktail?
Advocaat
19/. What is New Year’s Eve called in Scotland?
Hogmanay
20/. Who wrote Auld Lang Syne?
Robert Burns
21/. In which film did Dudley Moore play Patch, the Elf?.
Santa Claus, the Movie
22/. What is Scrooge’s first name?
Ebenezer
23/. Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. What happened next?
You gave it away
24/. What was the number one Christmas hit of 2000?
Bob the Builder’s Can We Fix It
25/. Wet, Wet, Wet’s Love is All Around was turned into a Christmas hit in which film?
Love Actually
26/. Where would you find pigs in blankets on Christmas Day?
On your plate
27/. In which country does Joulupukki, the Yul Goat, bring presents?
Finland
28/. What would you do with a capon? Cook it? Throw it? Play it? Cook It
29/. Who played Scrooge in the Muppet Christmas Carol?
Michael Caine
30/. Where does the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square come from each year?
Norway
What are the first lines of these Christmas Carols
31/. ITBM In The Bleak Midwinter
32/. AIAM Away In A Manger
33/. WSWTFBN While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
34/. OLTOB O Little Town Of Bethlehem
35/. GRYMG God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
36/. DDMOH Ding Dong Merrily On High
37/. What is "Viscum album" better known as?
Mistletoe (European Mistletoe)
38/. Name the three wise men?
Caspar,(or Gaspar) Melchior, Balthasar
39/. Which famous Englishman died Christmas Day 1977?
Charlie Chaplin
40/. From which country does Good King Wenceslas originate?
Bohemia/Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia
41/. Who banned Christmas in England between 1647 and 1669? Cromwell
42/. From whose gospel is the traditional account of the Nativity taken?
Matthew and/or Luke
43/. Which theatre company is Claudia Pepler Berry working with to stage this year’s Merlin Christmas show?
Miracle Theatre Company
44/. How many points does a snowflake have?
Six
45/. From which country does the poinsettia plant originate?
Mexico
46/. In the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life (screening at the Merlin on 22 Dec) what’s the name of George Bailey’s guardian angel?
Clarence Odbody
47/. Which country did St Nicholas come from?
Turkey
48/. Who was the first British Monarch to broadcast a Christmas message to the nation?
George V
49/. What colour are the berries of the mistletoe plant?
White
50/. Who played the part of Toto in the Merlin’s 2008 production of The Wizard of Oz?
Kylie – Claudia’s Jack Russell
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