Up at "The Hammer" last night it was rather chaotic. First of all, there were quite a lot of people in and secondly the pub was understaffed. Some customers were finishing meals and others had turned up specially for the regular Sunday night quiz. There were also three pet dogs sniffing about and getting under people's feet.
The special Christmas quiz had been devised by Rebecca, the twenty-something assistant manager and I had the strong impression that she had never created a pub quiz before. On the whole, her questions were too damned hard and all the time she was posing her questions over the temperamental sound system, she was also serving at the bar. This meant that there were long, frustrating pauses in the process.
Then at around eighty thirty something happened that nobody was expecting. The vicar from nearby All Saints Church appeared with about twelve members of his congregation. They had carol sheets for pubgoers to follow and in the middle of the quiz a few of us joined in but most didn't. There was no musical accompaniment and it all seemed rather pointless.
In spite of this ropy experience, I feel inspired to create a Christmas-themed quiz for "Yorkshire Pudding" visitors so let's go. Answers will be given in the "Comments" section.
(a) a kind of Palestinian water trough
2) Name the actor shown below. He starred in the successful 2003 Christmas film "Elf".
More than you could ever know
Oh, baby, all I want for Christmas is you
You, baby
6) Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer pulls Santa's sleigh with several other reindeer but only one of them has a name beginning with the letter "V". Name that reindeer.
8) In which European country did the tradition of decorating Christmas trees begin?
9) In America, Spike Jones and His City Slickers had a big Christmas hit in 1948 with "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two ___ ____". Complete the title.
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