Weeeelllllll …
I did promise Sylvie I’d have this up at some point: I’m just hoping she’s reading!
Something I know I always found handy — when I was still actively running pub quizzes — was the amount of free questions you could get online.
There’s plenty of sites like Dr Paul’s doing the rounds, that happily let you have so many freebies, as a way of advertising the thousand’s more they’re happy to sell you.
Not something I found that easy to access, having the kind of budget I was on.
Paid-for quiz questions were pricey!
But — combined with Carlton Publishing’s rather good Giant Pub Quiz books — there were enough freebies around to keep me going for some time.
At least, until I got the hang of writing my own …
But themed quizzes … ?
Themed quiz questions were always a pain, to be frank: the one thing a lot of quiz sites didn’t hand out freely, was themed questions, preferring to make money from their sales.
I can’t say I blame them.
If I had the coding skill for it, I’d be doing the same.
Mind you, I also know that I’m — with the Teasers — just one source of free questions amongst others.
And, as much as I’d like — maybe I should say hope — to be making money from selling these things, I’m also aware that I’m hoping the various ads will start building up revenue, if I hand out free themed quizzes.
So bumping into Sylvie — who runs a quiz at a pub near me — , yesterday was sort of inspiring, as I was able to point her here with the promise of the fact I’d be posting a Christmas themed quiz.
Which will be at the end of the post, Sylvie, along with a link to the Creative Commons License I use.
But something she ran past me, is a little problem she was having …
As with many QM’s, Sylvie likes to throw in the odd picture round, but has been starting to get the odd problem: namely that cutting and pasting pictures from her browser was also pasting the surrounding Google page into the document she’d be putting together.
Which she wasn’t to happy about, understandably!
All I could do to help was explain that — in Safari — there’s an option to open whatever image had grabbed the attention in a separate window, and Drag and Drop it across to the Desktop.
And then Drag and Drop the picture into a MSOffice/NeoOffice/OpenOffice.org document.
Hopefully, she’ll be able to make use of the help.
And hopefully she — and you — will be able to make use of the Christmas-themed question set.
One that I originally wrote for Councillor Chilvers’, back in August.
Here’s the questions, folks, along with the Creative Commons License.
ROUND ONE: – CHRISTMAS KNOWLEDGE.(A Generalised Christmas trivia round. That’s going to be fun. Really.)Q1) In which century were fake Xmas trees first used; the 18th, 19th or 20th?A1) The Nineteenth.Q2) According to Dutch and Belgian tradition, Santa Clause lives in which European country?Q2) Spain. (And he travels around by steam boat.)Q3) A three ton Christmas cake was made and eaten, in 2008. But in which German city?A3) Dresden.Q4) Which Will Smith film had a record US opening weekend, in December of 2007?A4) I Am Legend.Q5) According to national statistics how many Christmas cards does the average family send every year; – 15, 35 or 55?A5) 55.Q6) Which Christmas tale saw it’s 25th anniversary, in 2007?A6) The Snowman, by Raymond Briggs.Q7) Who makes the traditional Urbi et Orbi speech, at Xmas?A7) The Pope.Q8) On which website was the Queen’s Speech made available, in 2007?A8) YouTube.Q9) Who named Christmas Island in 1777?A9) Captain William Mynors.Q10) According to legend, what special task did King Arthur perform one Christmas Day?A10) Pulled the sword from the stone.
ROUND TWO: – MUSIC AND CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.(And Carol isn’t in sight. Who is Carol, anyway … ? Ooh, about Q19 …)Q11) Which band had a 1968 Xmas hit with Lily the Pink?A11) The Scaffold.Q12) Which former Beatle had a Xmas hit with Pipes of Peace?A12) Paul McCartney.Q13) According to the song, Xmas is coming, and the what is getting fat?A13) The Goose.Q14) If you were wassailing, at Christmas, what would you be singing?A14) Carols.Q15) What Jonah Lewie song was the only Christmas hit on Stiff Records?A15) Stop The Cavalry.Q16) How many version’s of Leonard Cohen song, Hallejeujah charted in the Christmas 2008 chart? (Bonus for telling us who had a Number One hit with it.)A16) Three. (X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, at number 1, Jeff Buckley, at Number 2, and Leonard Cohen himself, at number 36)Q17) Which girl-band had the Christmas number 1 in 2002?A17) Girls Aloud.Q18) According to the carol, when did Good King Wencelas look out; Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Boxing Day?A18) Boxing Day; - the Feast of Saint Stephen.Q19) What do You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman, by Aretha Franklin,The Locomotion, and Tony Orlando hit, Halfway to Paradise all have in common?A19) They’re all Carole’s. Written by singer-songwriter, Carole King, in other words.Q20) In what year did Band Aid first have a Christmas no.1, with Do They Know It’s Christmas??A20) 1984.
ROUND THREE: – TOYS AND GAMES.(The Real Meaning of Christmas is … )Q21) Barbara Millicent Roberts is better known how?A21) Barbie.Q22) Which Sony console was delayed until 2007?A22) The Playstation 3.Q23) Which children’s characters saw their 50th anniversary, in 2008?A23) The Smurfs.Q24) What toy does an actophile collect?A24) Teddy bears.Q25) What was the name of Nintendo’s 2005 canine computer game?A25) Nintendogs.Q26) Which toy brick got recalled in 2008?A26) Sticklebricks.Q27) Who bought the toy company, Corgi, in 2008?A27) Hornby.Q28) What children’s toy was invented in 1900 by Frank Hornby?A28) Meccano.A29) Green.Q30) What type of toy was found in a cabbage patch?A30) Doll. (DO NOT accept Cabbage Patch Kids.)
ROUND FOUR: – AT THE FESTIVE MOVIES.(Films either released at Christmas, or with a seasonal connection …)Q31) Denise Richards played Dr Christmas Jones in which James Bond movie?A31) The World is Not Enough.Q32) Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz co-star with Jack Black and Jude Law in which romantic Christmas movie?A32) The Holiday, released in 2006.Q33) In which Bruce Willis film do terrorists take over an office block on Christmas Eve?A33) Die Hard.Q34) What is the name of George Bailey's guardian angel in It’s A Wonderful Life?A34) Clarence Oddbody.Q35) Who won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1993 for her role in The Piano?A35) Holly Hunter.Q36) What do George C. Scott, Alastair Sim, Daffy Duck, Michael Caine, and Jim Carey all have in common?A36) They have all played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge.Q37) In which city is Kevin left in the original Home Alone?A37) Chicago.Q38) 2005 saw a straight to DVD Xmas clunker called My Little Pony: A Very … what … Christmas?A38) My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas. (Straight to DVD, remember; that should tell you something …)Q39) What was the subtitle of The Santa Clause 3?A39) The Escape Clause.Q40) In which celebrated film does James Stewart attempt suicide one Christmas?A40) It’s a Wonderful Life.ROUND FIVE: – GETTING STUFFED.(By festive food …)Q41) Name any of the three days do Americans consume the most food?A41) Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day and Superbowl Sunday.Q42) One often has a glass of something before Christmas dinner as an APERITIF. The word stems from the Latin word meaning what?A42) To open.Q43) The name of which herb is used as a magic word in a Christmas pantomime?A43) Sesame.Q44) According to a 2008 report, who eats more Brussel sprouts; – men, or women?A44) Men. (Feel free to insert the inevitable joke, here …)Q45) Eggnog is traditionally consumed in the US over Christmas and which other holiday season?A45) Thanksgiving.Q46) Which Christmas dinner was eaten by Elizebeth 1st to celebrate the English victory over the Spanish Armada; – fish, peacock, goose, or eel?A46) Goose.Q47) In which European capital city is eel a traditional dinner on Christmas Eve; London, Rome, Paris or Oslo?A47) Rome.Q48) Révellion is the term for Christmas dinner, in which European language?A48) French.Q49) Thousands of what were marched on London from Norfolk just prior to Christmas each year in Victorian times?A49) Turkeys and Geese. (The turkeys wore little leather boots, the geese just had their feet tarred.)Q50) Which German city, famous for its Christmas market (Christkindmarkt) and Christmas ginger bread (Lebkuchen) was once known as the “…ginger bread capital of the world”?A50) Nuremburg: or Nürnberg in German.
ROUND SIX: – CHRISTMAS IGNORANCE.(Like the first round; except tougher!!)Q51) The poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas, is better known how?A51) The Night Before Christmas.Q52) 1843 saw the first commercial printing of what?A52) Christmas cards. (By Sir Henry Cole.)Q53) Tom Smith was the 1st person to make Xmas Crackers. What type of Russian did he name them after?A53) Cossacks. (He thought the snap sounded like a Cossack’s whip.)Q54) ‘Caribou’ is the North American name for what?A54) Reindeer.Q55) Who beat Austria 6-0, on aggregate, in the play-offs for the 2002 World Cup?A55) TurkeyQ56) Which one of Santa’s reindeer shares its name with a love god?A56) CupidQ57) In which decade of the 19th century were electric lights first used on Christmas trees?A57) The 1890’sQ58) Which island nation banned Christmas in 1969 and re-introduced it in 2000?A58) Cuba.Q59) Which Puritan leader banned Christmas in 1647?A59) Oliver Cromwell.
A60) The Ghost of Christmas Past.
Enjoy those, every one … !
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