10 quiz questions to kick off your week – Scroll to the bottom for the answers

2025 HOLIDAY EDITION

  1. What year was Mariah Carey’s song All I Want for Christmas Is You released. 1994, 1996 or 1998?

  2. What plant are people traditionally kissed under at Christmas?

  3. In the book and film The Grinch, what is the name of the town where the story is set?

  4. Was the film Home Alone released in the 80s or 90s?

  5. What Scottish song is traditionally sung at midnight on New Year’s Eve?

  6. Which New Zealand director has an uncredited cameo as Santa Claus in the film Hot Fuzz?

  7. Actor Kit Harington was born on Boxing Day. What character did he play in Game of Thrones?

  8. Which Christmas song includes the lyric, “This year, to save me from tears, I’ll give it to someone special”?

  9. In the film Die Hard, which actor plays the main villain who takes a Christmas party hostage?

  10. Named after a famous ballerina, what dessert is commonly found on a New Zealand Christmas table?

Answers:

  1. 1994

  2. Mistletoe

  3. Whoville

  4. 90s (in 1990)

  5. Auld Lang Syne

  6. Peter Jackson

  7. Jon Snow

  8. Last Christmas – Wham!

  9. Alan Rickman

  10. Pavlova