Christmas Timeline Milestones Trivia Trivia Quiz - Trivia Quiz

1 In what year is the first recorded celebration of Christmas on December 25 in Rome documented?

A. 313 CE

B. 336 CE

C. 354 CE

2 In which year did the tradition of tracking Santa by CONAD/NORAD begin after a misprinted phone number?

A. 1948

B. 1958

C. 1955

3 When did the United States first declare Christmas a federal holiday?

A. 1870

B. 1901

C. 1885

4 In what year was the carol Silent Night first performed?

A. 1808

B. 1818

C. 1828

5 What year saw the first official Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony?

A. 1933

B. 1931

C. 1932

6 When did Edward H. Johnson display one of the first electrically lit Christmas trees in New York City?

A. 1901

B. 1895

C. 1882

7 In which year was the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas (’Twas the Night Before Christmas) first published?

A. 1820

B. 1812

C. 1823

8 What year was the first commercially produced Christmas card introduced in Britain?

A. 1856

B. 1837

C. 1843

9 The Dresden Striezelmarkt, often cited as one of the oldest Christmas markets, was first held in which year?

A. 1517

B. 1434

C. 1628

10 In which year was Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol first published?

A. 1839

B. 1841

C. 1843

11 Coca-Cola’s Haddon Sundblom began painting the modern red-suited Santa for the company’s holiday ads in which year?

A. 1923

B. 1947

C. 1931

12 Bing Crosby’s recording of White Christmas was first released as a single in which year?

A. 1945

B. 1942

C. 1950

13 In what year did Queen Elizabeth II deliver the first televised Royal Christmas Message?

A. 1956

B. 1957

C. 1953

14 When did Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker ballet premiere?

A. 1892

B. 1889

C. 1900

15 In which year did the Massachusetts Bay Colony enact a law banning the celebration of Christmas?

A. 1659

B. 1666

C. 1681