Though it’s not always the season to be jolly when a clue about Christmas comes up on Jeopardy!, we’ve compiled a list of questions you can use at your discretion. These 55 clues can make an excellent game of trivia during Christmas festivities. You can also go through them whenever you’re feeling nostalgic for all the Christmases past. Finally, when the holidays are fast approaching and you are in no mood to celebrate, go through these questions to get yourself excited. Good luck, and don’t forget to share your score with us!
1. BBC Good Food says that every Christmas table should have this fruity dessert & we won’t go until we get some!
2. This Delaware state tree with prickly green leaves & red berries is popular for Christmas decorating.
3. In Norwegian this holiday greeting is god jul.
4. A tough year for pop music icons got worse when this Wham! singer died on Christmas Day.
6. To do this to a Christmas tree, apply a substance to the branches to give the appearance of snow.
7. These are the 5 words that begin the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”
8. Merry Christmas! On Christmas Eve 1979, the Russians invaded this country.
9. In “A Christmas Carol,” this man’s ghost tells Scrooge, “I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link.”
10. Jack Skellington’s plot to kidnap Santa goes awry in this stop-motion fable from Tim Burton.
11. The name of the French Christmas cake buche de noel means this, which it is made to resemble.
12. Abbreviated “SAD,” this disorder can crop up at specific times of the year, like Christmas.
13. Tradition says that he wrote “A Visit from St. Nicholas” as a Christmas present for his children.
14. 82-acre President’s Park is home each December to this tall attraction.
15. This traditional Christmas dessert is made with suet, currants, raisins, almonds & spices, but rarely the fruit in its name.
16. In 1942 this crooner had a No. 1 hit with “White Christmas.”
17. This title line is followed by “underneath the mistletoe last night.”
18. His “Christmas Album” of 1957 includes the now classic “Blue Christmas.”
19. It’s the alternate title & first line of “The Christmas Song,” definitively sung by Nat King Cole.
20. In 2014 Bob Geldof re-recorded this 30-year-old song as a fundraiser to fight Ebola.
21. Christmas dinner may include this banana relative; belize.com reports it’s said to be “the local cranberry sauce.”
22. “On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me” these musicians—we need to re-examine our relationship.
23. 2015 marks 50 years of this TV special in which Linus quotes from the Gospel of Luke to enlighten his friends.
24. Gregory Keller, a Catholic priest, invented a machine to automate the process for making these Christmas sweets.
25. A holiday symbol lends its name to this type of bill that attracts many amendments, like ornaments.
26. Young Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) gets left behind when his family heads to France for Christmas in this 1990 film.
27. A Christmas special about this misfit who ends up helping Santa was honored on a series of stamps in 2014.
28. In England it’s the name for Santa.
29. A cost analysis of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” said these 12 12th day items would set you back $2,854.80.
30. “Silent Night” by this 3-named woman is a Christmas suspense novel.
31. The Tannenbaums were shivering by the Funtensee as this country hit its record low of -45.9 Celsius at Christmas 2001.
32. From a popular Christmas carol: These “bending near the Earth, to touch their harps of gold.”
33. It won’t bloom ’til March, but at Christmas my wife tells me to get underneath this parasitic plant & pucker up.
34. A circular holiday stamp depicts an evergreen one of these decorations.
35. On New Year’s Eve the Dutch hold bonfires of these, which were a centerpiece of the home just a week before.
36. It’s the contemptuous first word Scrooge says in “A Christmas Carol.”
37. Pennsylvania’s “Christmas City,” it was founded by Moravians from Central Europe in 1741.
38. When she sang “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” perhaps she meant husband Nick Cannon.
39. British kids do this with Christmas letters so their wishes will go up the chimney to Father Christmas.
40. In Sweden this patron saint of sight is honored on December 13 as part of the Christmas celebration.
41. In Latin America the Christmastime walks & visits called novenas start on this pre-Christmas date.
42. Some scholars say the Basilica of St. Anastasia in this imperial city was the site of the first Dec. 25 Xmas celebration.
43. Neil Papworth approved & sent the first one of these in December 1992, typing, “Merry Christmas.”
44. Alfred Anderson was the last survivor of the Christmas truce of this year, when front line troops exchanged gifts.
45. In 1948, President Truman signaled the lighting of the White House Christmas tree via remote control from his home in this state, 900 miles away.
46. In 1972 the FDA said not a strand of this metal tree decoration containing lead should be sold; today it’s plastic.
47. Often made with adhesive, cellulose & fire retardant, the artificial snow found on some trees is called this, also a term for what a bunch of birds do when coming together.
48. The Christmas tree was popularized in the mid-19th century by this Prince, husband of Queen Victoria.
49. A Calif. natl. park that bears this type of tree’s name has the “Nation’s Christmas Tree,” an over 260′ “giant” one.
50. This British observance on the first weekday after Christmas doesn’t refer to pugilists but to gift packages.
51. In a Christmas story by Berkeley Breathed, Opus, this type of bird, makes “a wish for wings that work.”
52. “One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas,” said this O. Henry story.
53. In “The Polar Express,” for the first gift of Christmas, a boy asks for one of these from Santa’s sleigh.
54. In the “12 Days Of Christmas,” you get this fowl on the 6th day.
55. To put ornaments on a Christmas tree.
Final Words
We hope these Jeopardy! questions make your Christmas even more holly and jolly! For even more holiday-related trivia, check out these 55 Fun Holiday Jeopardy! Questions, plus these quizzes about Home Alone, A Christmas Carol, Christmas movies, and more. And for more Jeopardy! question fun, check out these articles on Trivia Bliss: 57 Surprising Animal Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Really Cool Jeopardy! Movie Questions, 55 Tantalizing Food Questions for Jeopardy!, 55 Really Fun Pop Culture Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Rockin’ Music Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Jeopardy! Questions Perfect for Kids, 55 Jeopardy! Questions and Answers Perfect for Families, 55 Jeopardy! Questions Perfect for Couples, 55 Random Jeopardy! Questions, and more!
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