FESTIVE QUIZ 2020

When all is said and done, there’s nothing quite like a competitive edge to your Christmas day celebrations.

So, when your belly is full to bursting and only a festive tipple can help, why not ignore the dishes, put on some yuletide music, crank up the flames on the fire, perch yourselves under the twinkling lights of the Christmas tree and settle in for an almost guaranteed way to fall out with loved ones with our festive quiz.

Devised by the Advertiser team, this special brainteaser is sure to be the perfect quiz to end the big day.

Merry Christmas!

MONKLANDS

1 - Which site did NHS Lanarkshire recommend be used for the new £400 million University Hospital Monklands?

2 - Name the Coatbridge comic book writer who invested £18,000 in a live-streaming service for hometown club Albion Rovers?

3 - What is the name of the Airdrie MSP who announced he will stand down as an MSP at next year’s Holyrood election after a 21-year spell in the Scottish Parliament?

4 - Coatbridge actress Anna Russell-martin asked which Scottish singer out on a date during her trip to the Venice Film Festival?

5 - North Lanarkshire Council green-lit plans for a multi-million pound redevelopment of the Orrs building, but for how many years has the Airdrie site lain empty ?

FESTIVE FACTS

1 - Since 1960, it has been deemed tradition to watch Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve in which country?

2 - Mistletoe literally translates from Anglo Saxon as what on a stick?

3 - What does Noel mean in Latin?

4 - The German Nazi regime replaced Santa Claus with which figure?

5 – What did Prime Minister Boris Johnson this year describe Christmas as the season to be?

FESTIVE MUSIC

1 - Which 80s pop star did Swedish indie band The Hives join up with for their 2008 festive hit?

BONUS - Name that song

2 - Do They Know It’s Christmas has been recorded four times in the UK with different versions released in 1984, 1989, 2004 and 2014. It has two writers; who are they?

3 - An 80s pop star with a Danish wife has this year released his first Christmas song – name that artist?

4 - Jose Feliciano wrote the Christmas classic Feliz Navidad. What do the lyrics Próspero año y felicidad mean? 5 - Scottish singer / songwriters Roddy Hart and Tommy Reilly penned the score to the 2017 Scottish Christmas zombie musical movie Anna and the ???

ENTERTAINMENT T

1 - Hollywood and the worldwide film industry took a huge hit this year with the closure of cinemas. Which Christopher Nolan film did Warner Bros. pin their hopes on turning things around when cinemas reopened?

2 - Scottish film legend Sir Sean Connery sadly died in October at the age of 90. Famed for playing James Bond, name FIVE Connery films that are NOT Bond films.

BONUS - How many Bond films did he star in?

3 - Which Scottish BBC Sound of 2020 singer appeared on Jools Holland in October this year?

4 - The coronavirus pandemic saw the Edinburgh Fringe Festival cancelled for the first time in it’s history – what date was the event founded?

5 - In the US presidential election, how many votes – to the nearest 2000 – did rapper Kanye West get?

World turned upside down But when was the Fringe founded?

Legend The late Sir Sean Connery

Appeal of the season Prime Minister Boris Johnson