Christmas quiz answers

Here are the answers to the quiz questions. How many did you get right?

1. What does "White Christmas" mean?
= A Christmas when there is snow.

2. What is another name for Santa Claus?
= Father Christmas

3. What do people traditionally sing at Christmas?
= Christmas carols.

There are a number of "favourites", such as "Away in a Manger", "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "Silent Night", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Good King Wenceslas".

4. What does "Boxing Day" mean?
= It means 26 December.

5. What do English people eat on Christmas Day?
= Roast turkey, roast beef, or roast goose. Probably the most popular is roast turkey, with "all the trimmings": roast potatoes, brussels sprouts, bread sauce, bacon rolls and turkey gravy, with Christmas pudding to follow for those who still have room!

6. What does "advent calendar" mean?
= It's a calendar with windows for each day of December up to 25 December. When you open the window for the day, you have a picture of a Christmas scene, and often a chocolate.

7. Where can you kiss the person you secretly like?
= Under the mistletoe!

8. What do people send before Christmas?
= Christmas cards.

9. What does "christmas cracker" mean?
= It's a cardboard lozenge shape, covered in crepe paper. Two people pull at each end, and the cracker (which contains a small amount of explosive powder) explodes. Inside there is a paper hat (which you should wear) and a small gift. We pull crackers at the end of the Christmas meal.

10. Where do English people put their Christmas presents?
= Under the Christmas tree.

11. How many reindeer does Santa Claus have?
= 12. The chief reindeer is "Rudolph", who has a shiny nose.

12. What does "midnight mass" mean?
= It's a special church service at midnight on Christmas Eve.

13.What is the "Queen's Speech"?
= The Queen's speech is televised on 25 December at 3pm. She speaks to all the citizens in Britain, giving them a message for the New Year.

14. What does "christmas stocking" mean?
= It's a large sock, filled with presents, that are put at the end of the beds of children, officially by "Father Christmas". The children open their stockings on Christmas morning.

15. How can you decorate your tree?
= With baubles, chocolate coins, angels, tinsel and lights. At the top of the tree you can put an angel, or star.

16. How many days of Christmas are there (according to the song)?
= 12.