This was an Online Quiz conducted on the Christmas day to the Quizzers of Kottayam Medical College. The Quiz is about Christmas .....

3. RULES
• 15 questions
• All the questions have some connection with
Christmas in one way or the other .
• Some questions are multipointers .
• No negatives
• The decision of the quizmaster is Final 

4. REFERENCE
whychristmas.com

5. ARE U READY ?

6. Q1.
• This word is derived from an Old French word
meaning dancing to songs in circles.
• (These were sung especially in the Pagan
Festival at the Winter Solstice celebrations)
• Which popular word associated with
Christmas am I talking about ?

7. ANSWER
• Carol

8. Q2.
• The Greek word for Christ is ‘Christos’ .
• The first letter in Christos is the Greek
alphabet ‘Chi’.
• Chi is the 22nd Greek Alphabet
• What did the use of this Greek word over time
create (or donate) to the Christmas Festival ?

9. ANSWER
• The tradition of writing Xmas for Christmas !!
• The Greek letter Chi looks like the English
alphabet X .

10. Q3.
• The observance of this day started in UK about 800 years
ago ,during the Middle Ages.
• It was a custom to keep Alms boxes, collection boxes for
the Poor in churches & other places of importance .These
boxes were opened on this day & their contents delivered
to the poor.
• It was also traditional that servants got the day off to
celebrate Christmas with their families.
• Before the Second World War, it was common for working
people such as milkman & butchers to travel round their
delivery places & collect their Christmas tip.
• The day is a public holiday in UK, Canada, Australia & NZ.
• The day is called ?

11. ANSWER
• Boxing Day

12. Q4.
• According to Folklore, a German Choirmaster in 1670
was worried about children sitting quitely all the long
Christmas service.
• So he gave them something to eat to keep them quiet
!!!!
• As he wanted to remind them of Christmas, he made
them shape like a Shepherd’s crook ,to remind them of
the shepherds who visited the christ child.
• They soon became popular & spread from Germany to
the rest of the Europe.
• About what confectionary associated with Christmas
am I talking about ?

13. ANSWER
• Candy Cane

14. Q5.
• A Christmas Carol (Image next slide) by Charles
Dickens was published in 1843 in London.
• It tells the story of a bitter old miser named X &
his transformation into a gentler kindlier
individual after visitations by the ghost of his
former business partner Jacob Marley & the
ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Yet to Come.
• The novella also popularised a phrase (which is
believed to have been used for the first time by
an English Admiral in an informal letter in 1699).
• Identify X & the phrase

16. ANSWER
• X – Ebnezer Scrooge
• The phrase is “Merry Christmas”

17. Q6.
• The Christmas decorations are kept in most countries only
till the evening of January 5th.
• That night is a day of celebration.
• In the past,people held large parties – during these
parties,the roles in the society were reversed with the
servants being served by the rich people.
• William Shakespeare wrote a Comedy around 1601-1602 to
be played during this festive day. The performance came a
little late ,on the candlemas (The observance of
Presentation of Jesus at the temple) in 1602.
• The name of the Comedy is the same as what the festive
day was called..
• Name the Comedy.

18. ANSWER
• The Twelfth Night
• January 5th is the 12th
Day following Christmas .

19. Q7.
• Stephen was born in 1947 to a British family in London .He
emigrated to Toronto ,Canada with his family & at the age
of 2,he was diagnosed to have X at the hospital for sick
children.
• In 1952,the family returned to London to visit their relatives
& during this trip,Stephen was admitted to hospital.
• A sample of his blood was sent to an institution in Oxford
,where a new discovery was made from this sample.
• Stephen worked as a taxicab driver for some years & as a
medical photographer for some years.
• He developed AIDS & died in 1993.
• What is X & what was the discovery made ?

20. ANSWER
• X – Hemophilia
• Christmas Factor (This
coagulation factor is
deficient in Hemophilia
B otherwise known as
Christmas Disease)
• Patients have bleeding
manifestations.

21. Q8.
• This poem was first published on December 23rd ,1823.It
was reprinted frequently with no name attached.
• Only in 1837,it was attributed in print to Clement Clarke
Moore,an American Professor of Oriental Literature
,Divinity & Biblical Learning.
• The poem,which has been called “arguably the best known
verses ever written by an American “ is largely responsible
for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from mid 19th
century to today & has had a massive impact on the history
of Christmas gift giving.
• It became a popular poem which was set to music &
recorded by many artists.
• The poem is ?

22. ANSWER
• A visit from St.Nicholas

23. Q9.
• Santa Claus is long considered a resident of North pole.
• On 23rd December 2008, Jason Kenny,the Minister of
Citizenship, Immigration & Multiculturalism formally
awarded ……… citizenship to Santa.
• He declared ,
• “The Government of …….. Wishes Santa the very best
in his Christmas eve duties & wants to let him know
that as a ………. Citizen, he has the automatic right to re
enter ….. once his trip around the world is complete”
• FITB

24. ANSWER
• Canada

25. Q10.
• Perhaps he is the most famous celebrity who
passed away on a Christmas Day.
• He was an English actor.
• His middle name was ‘Spencer’.
• The cause of his death was a stroke which he
sustained during his sleep.
• Who is he ?

26. ANSWER
• Charlie Spencer Chaplin

27. Q11.
• X,winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1990,named
as the TIME Magazine’s person of the Year
twice,in 1987 & in 1989,was the President of Y
till 25th of December 1991.
• X quit his post on the Christmas day & Y was
officially dissolved.
• X & Y ?

28. ANSWER
• X – Mikhail Gorbachev
• Y - USSR

29. Q12.
• 3 countries have banned Christmas celebrations this
year ( in 2015).
• One is an African Muslim nation – they banned Xmas
celebrations because of two reasons :
(1)All the citizens are Muslims & Xmas has nothing to
do with Islam ; (2) security .
• The second country ,an Asian nation, predominantly
Muslim, banned Christmas trees & gift giving in
schools .It is not so far from India.
• The 3rd country is a Southeast Asian country- the head
of the country is one of the richest man in the planet.
• The 3 countries are ?

30. ANSWER
• Somalia
• Tajikistan
• Brunei

31. Q13.
• Sir Henry Cole was an English civil servant & inventor who
facilitated many inventions in commerce & education in the
19th century Britain.He is sometimes credited with the
design of the world’s first postage stamp, the Penny Black .
• John Calcott Horsely was an English painter. John Horsely
was commissioned by Henry Cole to design something in
1843.
• But it caused some controversy as it depicted a small child
drinking wine.
• But the community loved the idea & soon “what they
designed” became popular.
• What did they design ?

32. ANSWER
• The first Xmas Card

33. Q14.
• According to the Julian Calendar,X was born on a Christmas day
(December 25,1642) at a hamlet in the county of lincolnshire.
• His name was the same as that of his father.His father,a farmer
,died 3 months before his birth.His mother remarried – he disliked
his stepfather.he often threatened his mother & stepfather that “he
would burn them & the house over them”.
• He was removed from the first school ,his mother wanted him to be
a farmer but X hated it.He joined the school upon compulsion by his
mother & master – motivated partly by a school yard bully,he
became a top ranked student !!
• The English poet Alexander Pope was moved by the
accomplishments of X & wrote the famous epitah :
“Nature & nature’s laws lay hid in night ;
God said Let X shall be & all was light.
• Id X.

34. ANSWER
• Isacc Newton

35. Q15.
• Jose Feliciano,a Puerto Rican singer songwriter is the one
who wrote this macaronic Christmas song in the 1970s.
• The song starts with Spanish lines (it’s the traditional
Christmas /New Year greeting in Spanish)
• It is one of the most downloaded & aired Christmas songs
in the USA & Canada.
• The song has been recorded numerous times & adapted to
various languages and also released as remixes.
• A very popular version was released by Boney M in their
Christmas album 1981.
• The song is ?

36. ANSWER
• Feliz Navidad

37. THANK YOU !!!!!!