How Well Do You Know Christmas-Trivia Answers

1. What American state was the first to make Christmas an official holiday?
  Alabama

2. What is the shape of the candy cane molded after?
  A shepherd's crook

3. What was the name of the dog that belonged to the Grinch in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"?  Max
 
4. What star led the Three Kings to Jesus?
  The star of Bethlehem

5. What was the name os Scrooges' dead business partner in "A Christmas Carol"?
  Jacob Marley

6. Where did the real St Nicholas live?
  In Turkey

7. When you go Wassailing, what is it that you are doing?
  Going to your neighbors house to receive goodies

8. In the movie "It's A Wonderful Life", how do you know that an angel has received his wings?  When a bell rings.

9. What was the picture on the first stamp printed for the Christmas season?
  A Rose
10. The poem commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" was originally titled what?  A Visit From St. Nicholas
 
11. What year were the first electric Christmas tree lights used in?
    The year 1895

12. Good King Wenceslas was king of which country?
    Czechoslovakia

13. When was Christmas first celebrated?
    Around 100 A.D.

14. Why was December 25th chosen as Christmas Day?
    To compete with a Pagan Celebration

15. What country did poinsettias originally come from?
    Mexico

16. How did Xmas originate as an abbreviation for Christmas?
    The Greek word for Christ is Xristos


17. What comes after '8 maids a-milking' in the song "The 12 days of Christmas"?
    9 Ladies dancing

18. When are the 12 days of Christmas?
    The 12 days after Christmas: December 26 to January 6
 
19. Of Santa's reindeer, how many are female and who?
    One female named Vixen

20. How many sides does a snowflake have?
    Six

21. Which emperor is credited with standardizing December 25th as Christmas day?
    Caesar Augustus

22. In Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" what identical gift was bestowed upon the bootlegger, the busdriver, the knife grinder, 2 Baptist missionaries in Borneo and the President of the US? 

    A Christmas Fruitcake

23. What is holly's symbolic meaning to Christians?
    To Christians, the berries are symbolic of Christ's blood, and the thorny  leaves suggest the thorns in His crown.

24. What does the bible mention as the date of Christ's birth?
    It doesn't

25. What was the original reason for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (as a song) to be written, but who in what year, and who first officially performed it?
Rudolph was created by Robert L. May in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward. May wrote the lyrics as copy for a Montgomery Ward department store giveaway. In 1947 it was set to music, and recorded by Gene Autrey.


26. What year did "A Charlie Borwn Christmas" debut on CBS and has aired every Christmas since?  1965

27. What auspicious television event occurred on December 24, 1968?
    After achieving the first manned lunar orbit, the crew of Apollo 8 celebrated Christmas Eve by reading from the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. The event was broadcast around the world.


28. Where is Christmas Island?
    In the Indian Ocean

29. Where is America's official Christmas tree located?
    America's official national Christmas tree is located in King's Canyon National Park in California

30. In what year did Toys for Tots begin?
    1947