Some Christmas Trivia for your enjoyment
Food & Drink
- Which milk-based beverage is available around the Christmas holidays and comes in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions?
Answer: Eggnog
- Stollen is the traditional fruit cake of which country?
Answer: Germany
- What name is given to small sausages wrapped in bacon, a staple at a British Christmas dinner?
Answer: Pigs in blankets
- The red and white costume of Father Christmas was allegedly first introduced by which drinks manufacturer?
Answer: Coca-Cola
- In which direction should you stir mincemeat for good luck; clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Answer: Clockwise
- What would you stick into an onion, when following a traditional bread sauce recipe?
Answer: Cloves
- A swede is a cross between which two vegetables?
Answer: A cabbage and a turnip
- What is a female turkey called?
Answer: A hen
- What is the name of the skin that hangs from a turkey’s neck?
Answer: Wattle
- Which spirit is traditionally added to butter and served with Christmas pudding?
Answer: Brandy
- True or False: Before turkey, the traditional English Christmas dinner included a pig’s head smothered in mustard.
Answer: True
- Visions of which sweet foodstuff danced in children’s heads as they slept, according to Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “‘Twas the Night before Christmas”?
Answer: Sugar-plums
- In Oaxaca City, Mexico, Noche de rábanos is celebrated every 23rd December. Which food gives this festival its name?
Answer: Radish; Noche de rábanos is Night of the Radishes when Mexican craftsmen create carvings from root vegetables.
- Approximately how many turkeys were purchased at Christmas 2013 in the UK; 1 million, 10 million, or 20 million?
Answer: 10 million
- What is a ‘Bûche de Noël’, commonly eaten in France at Christmas?
Answer: Yule log (cake/chocolate log or similar acceptable)
- What would you be drinking if you had ‘Glühwein’?
Answer: Mulled wine
- Which type of sweet bread loaf, which originated in Milan, is traditionally eaten at Christmas in Italy and many other European countries?
Answer: Panettone ( a type of sweet bread)
- Which Christmas food is it considered good luck to eat one of on each of the 12 days of Christmas?
Answer: Mince Pies
- As the clock chimes midnight to ring in the New Year, a Spanish tradition involves eating twelve of what – one for each chime?
Answer: Grapes
- Which type of tree was the partridge sitting in, according to a well-known Christmas song?
Answer: Pear
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