Test Your Christmas Trivia IQ

What’s your Christmas Trivia IQ? If you think you know a lot about the joyous holiday that’s just around the corner, think again. I present you with the NYLady Christmas Trivia Quiz, gathered after an exhaustive search of resources, where you can test your Christmas mettle and see just how smart you are about the holiday. You can see my answers at the bottom of this hub – no cheating. Santa doesn’t like cheaters.

1. If you were offered “frumenty” at a Medieval Christmas bash, what would you do with it?

• A. Burn it in the fireplace
• B. Eat it
• C. Wrap it around your neck
• D. Kick it across the room

2. Which of the following was NOT one of the Three Kings?

• A. Caspar
• B. Teleos
• C. Balthazar
• D. Melchior

3. Virginia was only 8 years old when she wrote the now-famous “is there a Santa Claus” letter to the newspaper. What was Virginia’s last name?

4. Who wrote “The Night Before Christmas?”

5. In “It’s a Wonderful Life,” what part of George Bailey’s house is always broken?

6. Who first recorded “Here Comes Santa Claus?”

• A. Burl Ives
• B. Any Williams
• C. Gene Autry
• D. Weird Al Yankovic

7. In “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” how much does Lucy charge for her psychiatric services?

8. The editorial "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus" was first published in which New York City newspaper?

• A. The New York Times
• B. The New York Post
• C. The New York Sun
• D. The New York Herald Tribune

9. What two friends in “It’s a Wonderful Life” share their names with two Sesame Street characters?

10. Which came first – the book or the movie of “Miracle on 34^th Street?”

11. In “A Christmas Carol,” which ghost did Scrooge fear the most?

12. What actor said, “Now I know there is a Santa Claus” when receiving his Academy Award?

13. What is the most heard Christmas carol of the holiday season?

14. What’s the name of George Bailey’s hometown in “It’s a Wonderful Life?”

15. What does Alvin the Chipmunk want for Christmas?

1. B) Eat it. Frumenty was a spiced porridge, and the forerunner of the modern-day Christmas pudding.

2. Teleost. According to legend, the three wise men were known as Balthazar, Mechior and Caspar. A teleost is actually a fish.

3. O’Hanlon

4. Clement C. Moore

5. The bannister

6. Gene Autry

7. 5 cents

8. C) The New York Sun

9. Characters named Bert and Ernie appear in the film It's a Wonderful Life as a policeman and a taxi driver, respectively, although the use of the names by Muppets creator Jim Henson was said to be a coincidence.

10. The movie came first.

11. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (scary!!!)

12. Edmond Gwenn, who played Kris Kringle in “Miracle on 34^th Street”

13. “White Christmas”

14. BedfordFalls

15. A hula hoop