OUR CHRISTMAS SONGS QUIZ
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1 Which Christmas song, written by Irving Berlin, is the best selling song of all time?
2 Complete this lyric: “Oh the weather outside is frightful, and the fire is so delightful. And since we’ve no place to go,…”
3 Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Prancer, Blitzen, Rudolph… which reindeer is missing?
4 “O, sing, choirs of angels” is the beginning of the second verse to which carol? 5 Which Canadian crooner has recorded a cover version of possibly every Christmas song ever written?
6 A version of Please Come Home for Christmas, released in 1978, was a big hit for which American rock group? 7 Which Christmas song was the biggest- ever hit for singer Eartha Kitt, way back in 1953?
8 War Is Over is the subtitle to a Christmas song by which British singer and his wife?
9 Which carol was sung by troops in the trenches during a ceasefire in World War I?
10 Which Christmas song, about that famous truce in 1914 and recorded in 1966, is estimated by some sources to be the biggestselling overseas single in New Zealand of the 20th century?
11 How many times does Santa check his list before coming to town?
12 What is the name of rock band Queen’s hit Christmas song?
13 Which Christmas song inspired a 2019 movie starring Emilia Clarke?
14 Co-written in 15 minutes in 1994 by the singer who performs it, which song has earned an estimated $ 60 million in royalties, making it the best- selling Christmas single by a female artist?
15 Wonderful Christmas Time is sung by which former Beatle?
16 In the original version of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, who sings the controversial line, “Well tonight thank God it’s them instead of you”?
17 Under what was Mummy kissing Santa Claus?
18 Feliz Navidad has been recorded by Boney M, David Hasselhoff, Billy T James, Garth Brooks, Luciano Pavarotti, Celine Dion and The Wiggles. But who wrote and sang it first?
19 In which Christmas carol do noisy cows wake up baby Jesus?
20 Which song, written for a musical based on the story of The Little Match Girl and sung in a TV adaptation by former model Twiggy, went on to become a huge hit for Sir Cliff Richard in 1988?