Christmas story quiz 2021

 

Here’s a quiz based on Christmas events in various well-known stories. There are seven reflecting the cheerful and generous side of the season, and seven that remind us of the very real darkness into which the Light shines. Not all the answers are a single word or name.

Light

1. Whose repentant pet brought him a cup of tea on Christmas morning?

2. What creatures sang ‘Who were the first to cry Nowell? Animals all, as it befell!’, and to whom?

3. Who gave away her best fur-topped gloves to a young star after they’d been Christmas shopping?

4. Who gave their Christmas breakfast away to an impoverished family?

5. Who asked some firemen who’d just quenched a dining room fire whether they would like anything to read?

6. When Lucy’s brother Tom got very excited about his presents and rather cross, who took him out for a walk in the snow, just the two of them together?

7.  What was (you may say) satisfactory?

Dark

1. Whose dad spent Christmas in St Mungo’s Hospital with a bad snake bite?

2. Who was the mischievous assistant who helped Father Christmas repel an invasion of goblins?

3. What was the gruesome challenge on the last day of King Arthur’s fifteen-day Christmas feast?

4. Who, on the night before Christmas, met with a boy called Ignorance and a girl called Want, and heard his own words repeated to him: ‘Are there no prisons? Are there no work-houses?’

5. What was the name of the Captain of the Secret Police in the land where it was ‘always winter but never Christmas’?

6. In which story was a visit from a sinister black rider followed by a nationwide lockdown caused by snow?

7. Who set out on a journey to destroy something evil on 25 December?

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