If you want to spice up your holiday family gatherings, then here are the ultimate Christmas quiz games for everyone to enjoy.
Moreover, these Christmas song trivia questions and answers can be useful to play with your family and friends that are based on names, facts, and others.
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First Lines Of Christmas Songs Quiz With Answers
These are the first lines of which Christmas song: “I don’t want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I need”?
Answer
All I Want For Christmas Is You
Complete the following first lines from a famous Christmas carol: “Dashing through the … In a one-horse open sleigh.”
Answer
Snow
Complete the following first lines from a Christmas song: “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. But the very next …, you gave it away.”
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Day
These are the first lines of which Christmas song: “Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord. That David played, and it pleased the Lord”?
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Hallelujah
In the traditional Spanish Christmas song “Feliz Navidad”, what does the first line “Feliz Navidad” mean in English?
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Merry Christmas
Complete the following first lines from the Christmas song “Jingle Bell Rock”: “Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells … and jingle bells ….”
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swing – ring
How many times does the line “We wish you a merry Christmas” appear at the beginning of the song of the same name?
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3
Complete the following first lines from a popular Christmas song: “Silent night, holy night. All is …, and all is …”
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Calm – bright
Complete the following first lines from the popular Christmas carol: “Joy to the world, the … is come. Let earth receive her King.“
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Lord
Complete the following first lines from a Christmas song by Michael Bublé: “It’s beginning to … a lot like Christmas. Everywhere you go.”
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Look
These are the first lines of which Christmas song: “Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring tingle tingling too (ring-a-ling-a ding-dong-ding!)”
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Sleigh Ride
Name That Christmas Song With Answers
Down where He lay?
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Away in a Manger
Silent stars go by?
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
In Heavenly peace?
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Silent Night
Ride and sing?
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Jingle Bells
Field and fountain?
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We Three Kings of Orient Are
And sweet the words?
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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Dancing in the night?
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Do You Hear What I Hear?
A cold winter’s night?
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The First Noel
Made of snow?
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Frosty the Snowman
Pulling on the reins?
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Here Comes Santa Claus
How are thy leaves?
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O Christmas Tree
Gather near to us?
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
I used to know?
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White Christmas
Snow is glistening?
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Winter Wonderland
No place to go?
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Let it Snow
Christmas Carols Quiz Questions And Answers
Which Christmas song was the first song ever broadcast on radio?
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O Holy Night
“Joy to the World” is based on which book of the Bible?
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Psalms
Which Christmas carol is also the third best-selling single in world history?
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Silent Night
In what year was “Silent Night” first performed?
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1818
What was the original title of “The Little Drummer Boy”?
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Carol of the Drum
A poem called “The Manger Throne” provided the basis for which carol?
Answer
What Child Is This?
“Jingle Bells” was originally written for which holiday?
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Thanksgiving
“The First Noel” originated in which area?
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England
What type of tree does “O Tannenbaum” reference?
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Fir
When was “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks” first published?
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1700
The tune of “Greensleeves” is used for which Christmas carol?
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What Child Is This?
Which Christmas song was also the first song ever broadcast from space?
Answer
Jingle Bells
Christmas Song Trivia Facts
- Singer Brenda Lee recorded the original version of “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” when she was only 13 years old
- “Winter Wonderland” was written by Jewish songwriters Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith.
- “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” is one of the oldest secular Christmas songs, originating in 16th century England.
- Mel Tormé’s “The Christmas Song” (known as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) was written during a summer heatwave in 1944.
- For 28 years, Darlene Love sang her holiday hit “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” on David Letterman’s late-night show.
- “Jingle Bells” was the first song performed in space.
- “The Chipmunk Song” is still the only Christmas song to ever hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- “Do You Hear What I Hear?” was written as a call for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
- Eartha Kitt did a follow-up to “Santa Baby” the following year called “This Year’s Santa Baby“. It was the same song with different lyrics, and it flopped big time.
- In 1906, a violin solo of “O Holy Night” was the second piece of music to ever be broadcast on radio.
- “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” and “Joy to the World” are two of the oldest English language Christmas hymns, originating in the 1700s.
Christmas Songs Music quiz
Who sang ‘Last Christmas’?
Answer
Wham
As of 2019, which act holds the record for having the most UK Christmas No.1s?
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The Beatles
Which boy band had the UK Christmas Number one spot in 1994 with ‘Stay Another Day’?
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East 17
Which Christmas song begins ‘It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank…’?
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Fairy Tale of New York
Who recorded the original – and still the most famous – version of ‘White Christmas’ in 1942?
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Bing Crosby
Which band scored an unlikely Christmas No. 1 in 2009 thanks to a public revolt against winners of ‘The X Factor’?
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Rage Against The Machine
Which music legend had a 1964 hit with ‘Blue Christmas’?
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Elvis Presley
How many ‘las’ are after the ‘fa’ in ‘Deck the Halls’?
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Eight
Who had a huge hit in 1976 with the soothing Christmas classic ‘When a Child is Born’?
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Johnny Mathis
Which Chris Rea song includes the lyrics ‘Top to toe in tailbacks, oh I got red lights all around?
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Driving Home for Christmas
Eartha Kitt had a hit with Santa Baby in the 1950s. Who re-recorded it in 2003?
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Kylie Minogue
Who duetted with Mariah Carey on a re-release of her festive hit ‘All I Want for Christmas’ in 2011?
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Justin Bieber
Christmas Music Trivia Questions And Answers
Which Italian tenor recorded a Christmas album called “My Christmas”?
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Andrea Bocelli
Which Australian singer released ‘Snowman’ in 2017?
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Sia
Which composer is known for Christmas music and ballet, The Nutcracker?
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Who sings ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’?
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Mariah Carey
Who wrote ‘Wonderful Christmastime’ (original version)?
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Paul McCartney
Which Christmas song finishes with “I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart”?
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Feliz Navidad
Which Canadian singer released a Christmas album called “Under the Mistletoe”?
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Justin Bieber
Complete the title of this famous Christmas song “It’s Beginning to _________ Christmas”.
Answer
Look a Lot Like
Which artist hasn’t released a cover of ‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town’?
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Johnny Cash
Which English singer released the album ‘The Holly & The Ivy’?
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Sam Smith
Which artist released a Christmas album named ‘You Make It Feel Like Christmas’?
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Gwen Stefani
What was the name of Rod Stewart’s 2012 Christmas album?
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Merry Christmas, Baby
In which country was ‘Silent Night’ composed?
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Austria
In ‘All I want for Christmas is You”, what does Mariah Carey not care about?
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The presents
Modern Christmas Song Trivia
- Which modern carol was performed by “My Chemical Romance and Mariah Carey”?
- Who sang the hit “Barefoot Santa Claus”?
- The “Happy Elf” is a carol performed by which singer?
- Which carol was done by “The Killers”? A Great Big Sled, Green Christmas or Christmas River?
- Who performs the modern carol “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”?
- Which Christmas song was done by “Jethro Tull”? Ring Out, Solstice Bells, The Real Meaning of Christmas or Christmas in the Caribbean?
- Which carol is by the “White Stripes”?
- If you wanted to hear the modern carol “Kentucky Homemade Christmas”, who would you listen to?
- Which carol was first introduced in the 1944 movie “Meet Me in St. Louis”?
- Which carol was covered by Elvis Presley in 1957? Here Comes Santa Claus, I Saw Three Ships or Amen?
- In the 12 Days of Christmas, who sends the gifts?
Hopefully, these Christmas song trivia questions and answers games are fun to play with friends, family, and others during the Christmas holiday.
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