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Christmas Trivia Questions With Answers (Family Quiz)

Updated : 2026-10-24

A Christmas quiz works for every age if you mix easy and harder questions and play in mixed-age teams. Here are 15 questions to get started (answers below each).

1. What colour are Santa's suit and hat traditionally?
   Answer: Red and white
2. How many reindeer pull Santa's sleigh (including Rudolph)?
   Answer: 9
3. Which country started the tradition of the Christmas tree?
   Answer: Germany
4. In which film does Kevin McCallister defend his house?
   Answer: Home Alone
5. What is the name of the Grinch's dog?
   Answer: Max
6. Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?
   Answer: Charles Dickens
7. In 'Frosty the Snowman', what brought Frosty to life?
   Answer: A magic (silk) hat
8. What are the three gifts the Wise Men brought?
   Answer: Gold, frankincense and myrrh
9. Which reindeer has a red nose?
   Answer: Rudolph
10. What do people traditionally kiss under?
    Answer: Mistletoe
11. Which Christmas song begins 'Dashing through the snow'?
    Answer: Jingle Bells
12. In the song, what did my true love give me on the first day of Christmas?
    Answer: A partridge in a pear tree
13. What city's Rockefeller Center hosts a famous Christmas tree?
    Answer: New York
14. In which country is Christmas dinner often KFC fried chicken?
    Answer: Japan
15. What is the French name for Father Christmas?
    Answer: Père Noël

How to host a family quiz

• Make teams that mix kids and adults — the children usually know the films, adults the history.
• Three rounds of ten questions is about 30–40 minutes, the right length after dinner.
• Use an answer sheet per team and swap sheets for marking.
• Add a picture round or a music round (hum the carol!).
• Small prizes for every team keep everyone smiling.

Want 30 questions on cut-out cards with a scoreboard? See Family Christmas Trivia. Or try our quick “Which Christmas elf are you?” quiz.

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Family Christmas Trivia

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