Christmas Quiz

It’s the most musical time of the year.

How many of these holiday songs make your personal Yuletide soundtrack?

1. Written in 1942, it made the Billboard 100 every year until 1963.

A. “I’ll Be Home for

Christmas”

B. “Silver Bells”

C. “White Christmas”

2. This 1944 song was deemed too sad until the singer helped to rewrite it.

A. “Have Yourself a Merry

Little Christmas”

B. “(There’s No Place Like)

Home for the Holidays” C. “The Holly and the Ivy”

3. Co-written by crooner Mel Torme, this was a hit for another beloved crooner.

A. “Sleigh Ride”

B. “Frosty the Snowman” C. “The Christmas Song”

4. This novelty hit in 1952 was by a 13-year-old singer.

A. “I Want a Hippopotamus

for Christmas”

B. “I Saw Mommy Kissing

Santa Claus”

C. “Grandma Got Run Over

by a Reindeer”

5. This jazzy 1953 hit was from the singer who later played Catwoman.

A. “Here Comes Santa Claus” B. “Santa Baby”

C. “Must Be Santa”

6. This is considered the first rock ’n’ roll holiday hit.

A. “Jingle Bell Rock”

B. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” C. “Let It Snow”

7. It was on Elvis’ first Christmas album in 1957.

A. “Jingle Bells”

B. “Winter Wonderland” C. “Blue Christmas”

8. It didn’t chart until two years after Brenda Lee recorded it.

A. “Santa Claus Is Coming

to Town”

B. “Rockin’ Around the

Christmas Tree”

C. “Deck the Halls”

9. This one’s a country favorite from Buck Owens.

A. “Santa Claus Is Back

in Town”

B. “Thinking About Drinking

for Christmas”

C. “Santa Looked a Lot

Like Daddy”

10. It appears in the popular stop-motion movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

A. “Holly Jolly Christmas” B. “The Wassail Song”

C. “The First Noel”