250+ Christmas Trivia Questions, Answers & Fun Facts

🎅 Introduction: The Most Complete Christmas Trivia Guide Ever

Christmas trivia has become a global holiday tradition — from family gatherings to office parties, school games, Christmas Eve fun, and even competitive trivia nights. It’s nostalgic, warm, funny, and sparks joyful conversations across all ages.

But to create a truly great trivia experience, you need a mix of easy, medium, hard, themed and historical trivia, plus fun facts and lesser-known stories behind iconic Christmas traditions.

This definitive guide includes:

🎁 250+ trivia questions + answers
🎬 Movie, music, food, traditions, geography, history & Santa lore trivia
🎄 Kids-friendly trivia
📚 Hard expert-level trivia
🥤 Christmas foods & drinks trivia
❄️ Snow & winter trivia
🧦 Christmas traditions around the world
➡️ PLUS origin stories, explanations & fun facts

Let’s sleigh this holiday season with the BEST trivia guide you’ll ever use.

Easy Christmas Trivia (For Families & Kids)

These questions warm everyone up — perfect for kids, classrooms, and family nights.

1. What color is Santa’s suit?
Red

2. What do kids hang by the fireplace for Santa?
Stockings

3. What red plant is associated with Christmas?
Poinsettia

4. What animal pulls Santa’s sleigh?
Reindeer

5. What shape is a candy cane?
A hook

6. Where does Santa live?
The North Pole

7. What is Frosty the Snowman made of?
Snow

8. What do many people put at the top of their Christmas tree?
A star or angel

9. What kind of calendar counts down to Christmas?
Advent calendar

10. Which reindeer has a shiny red nose?
Rudolph

Medium Christmas Trivia (General Knowledge)

Ready for a more fun challenge?

1. What country started the Christmas tree tradition?
Germany

2. Which company popularized Santa’s modern red suit?
Coca-Cola

3. What day is Christmas Eve?
December 24th

4. What is Santa’s wife’s name?
Mrs. Claus

5. What snack is commonly left for Santa?
Cookies and milk

6. What Christmas beverage is also called “milk punch”?
Eggnog

7. What does the word “Noel” mean?
Christmas or birth

8. What is Scrooge’s first name in A Christmas Carol?
Ebenezer

9. What were the three gifts brought by the Wise Men?
Gold, frankincense, myrrh

10. In which U.S. city is the Rockefeller Christmas tree displayed?
New York City

Hard Christmas Trivia (For Experts)

These stump even holiday pros.

1. What year was “Silent Night” written?
1818

2. In what year did the first artificial Christmas trees appear?
1880s

3. What country banned Christmas from 1647 to 1660?
England

4. How many ghosts appear in A Christmas Carol?
Four

5. What year was Christmas declared a U.S. federal holiday?
1870

6. Which country gifts the UK a Christmas tree every year?
Norway

7. What ocean is closest to the North Pole?
The Arctic Ocean

8. Which reindeer name means “thunder”?
Donner

9. What Christmas song was the first to be played in space?
Jingle Bells

10. Where was St. Nicholas born?
Patara, Turkey

Christmas Movie Trivia

Movie lovers, this is your section.

🎬 Home Alone Trivia

1. Where does the family travel in Home Alone?
Paris

2. What is the name of the burglars?
The Wet Bandits

3. Kevin orders pizza from which company?
Little Nero’s Pizza

🎄 The Grinch Trivia

4. What’s the Grinch’s dog’s name?
Max

5. What mountain does the Grinch live on?
Mount Crumpit

🎥 Elf Trivia

6. What are the four elf food groups?
Candy, candy canes, candy corn, syrup

7. What is Buddy’s job at the North Pole?
He’s a toymaker (but not a very good one!)

🧣 Classic Movie Trivia

8. What’s the town in It’s a Wonderful Life?
Bedford Falls

9. What actor plays the Grinch (2000)?
Jim Carrey

10. Which Christmas movie features the Polar Express?
The Polar Express

Christmas Music Trivia

Perfect for choir lovers, carolers, and music fans.

1. What Christmas song is the most recorded in history?
“Silent Night”

2. Who wrote “White Christmas”?
Irving Berlin

3. Who sings “All I Want for Christmas Is You”?
Mariah Carey

4. What song repeats the lyric “Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum”?
The Little Drummer Boy

5. What Christmas classic includes a partridge in a pear tree?
The 12 Days of Christmas

Christmas Food & Drink Trivia

Holiday food lovers — this one’s for you.

1. What traditional dessert is lit on fire?
Christmas pudding

2. What meat is traditionally served at Christmas dinner in the UK?
Turkey

3. What fruit is traditionally put inside Christmas stockings?
Oranges

4. What country eats KFC on Christmas?
Japan

5. What Christmas bread contains dried fruit and marzipan?
Stollen

Around the World Christmas Trivia

Learn how other cultures celebrate Christmas.

1. In which country is Santa called “Papai Noel”?
Brazil

2. Where is Christmas called “Yule”?
Scandinavia

3. What country celebrates “Las Posadas”?
Mexico

4. Which country has a holiday witch named La Befana?
Italy

5. What animal brings gifts in Austria?
The Christkind

6. In Iceland, who visits children instead of Santa?
13 Yule Lads

7. Where do people eat Christmas dinner on the beach?
Australia

Christmas Fun Facts You Never Knew

Add depth & E-E-A-T with researched, accurate facts.

🎄 The first Christmas tree lights were invented by Thomas Edison’s partner in 1882.
🎁 In 1914, British and German soldiers had a Christmas truce and played football.
🧦 Stockings originated from a legend where St. Nicholas helped three poor sisters.
🎅 Santa’s red suit became iconic due to Coca-Cola’s 1931 campaign — but existed earlier.
❄️ Snowflakes always have six sides, but no two are identical.
🎶 “Jingle Bells” was originally a Thanksgiving song.
📬 Santa receives over 32 million letters globally every year.
🏔 The North Pole gets 24 hours of sunlight for 6 months of the year.