1. Last Christmas, by Wham, was kept out of the No 1 spot on the British pop chart in 1984 by what other Christmas hit?
  2. Who conducted New Zealand’s first Christian church service in the Bay of Islands on Christmas Day, 1814?
  3. Prettige Kerstdagen means Happy Christmas in what language?
  4. What Eastern European communist dictator was executed, along with his wife, on Christmas Day, 1989?
  5. “Oh tidings of comfort and joy” is a line from what Christmas carol?
  6. In what 2003 Christmas movie did Will Ferrell play a human raised by Santa’s elves?
  7. What island in the Indian Ocean did English sea captain William Mynors visit on December 25, 1643?
  8. In the traditional song The Twelve Days of Christmas, what was sent on the third day?
  9. What is the predominant religion in modern-day Bethlehem?
  10. In which predominantly Catholic country does the traditional Christmas feast start with barszcz (beetroot soup)? 















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ANSWERS: 1. Do They Know It’s Christmas?; 2. Samuel Marsden; 3. Dutch; 4. Nicolae Ceausescu; 5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 6. Elf; 7. Christmas Island; 8. Three French hens; 9. Islam; 10. Poland.


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