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1. In the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," how many reindeer pull the sleigh? Answer: Eight
2. In "A Visit from St. Nicholas," what creature was not stirring? Answer: A mouse
3. In "A Visit from St. Nicholas," what was hung by the chimney with care? Answer: The stockings
4. In "A Visit from St. Nicholas," what does St. Nicholas's belly shake like when he laughs? Answer: A bowl full of jelly
5. Which of Santa's reindeer shares a name with a space object that has a tail? Answer: Comet
6. In "A Christmas Carol," which small boy says "God bless us, every one"? Answer: Tiny Tim
7. What do you open one door of each day in December until Christmas? Answer: An Advent calendar
8. Who wrote "A Christmas Carol"? Answer: Charles Dickens
9. What is Scrooge's first name in "A Christmas Carol"? Answer: Ebenezer
10. In "A Christmas Carol," who is Scrooge's dead business partner? Answer: Jacob Marley
11. Which of the three spirits visits Scrooge first? Answer: The Ghost of Christmas Past
12. What two words does Scrooge use to dismiss Christmas? Answer: Bah, humbug
13. In the story "The Gift of the Magi," what does Della sell to buy her husband a present? Answer: Her hair
14. What is December 26 called in the United Kingdom? Answer: Boxing Day
15. What plant with white berries do people kiss under at Christmas? Answer: Mistletoe
16. What paper tube do two people pull apart with a snap at a British Christmas dinner? Answer: A Christmas cracker
17. Halloween falls on the last day of which month? Answer: October
18. What is a carved pumpkin with a light inside called? Answer: A jack-o'-lantern
19. What do you call a person in stories who turns into a wolf? Answer: A werewolf
20. What three words do children say at the door on Halloween? Answer: Trick or treat
21. In stories, what do witches ride through the sky? Answer: A broomstick
22. In vampire stories, what smelly food keeps vampires away? Answer: Garlic
23. In stories, what kind of moon makes a werewolf change? Answer: A full moon
24. What party game has players grab floating fruit with their teeth? Answer: Bobbing for apples
25. What animal is most often shown as a witch's pet? Answer: A black cat
26. In vampire stories, what can a vampire not see in a mirror? Answer: Its own reflection
27. Who wrote the novel Dracula? Answer: Bram Stoker
28. Who wrote the novel Frankenstein? Answer: Mary Shelley
29. In the novel Frankenstein, is Frankenstein the scientist or the monster? Answer: The scientist
30. In the novel Dracula, what region is the Count's castle in? Answer: Transylvania
31. What is the name of the professor who hunts Dracula in the novel? Answer: Van Helsing
32. In werewolf stories, what metal are the bullets that can stop one made of? Answer: Silver
33. Which Washington Irving story has a Headless Horseman? Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
34. Who wrote the poem The Raven? Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
35. What one word does the raven keep repeating in Poe's poem? Answer: Nevermore
36. Who wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
37. In the novel Dracula, at what English seaside town does the Count's ship come ashore? Answer: Whitby
38. Which Shakespeare play has witches chanting "Double, double toil and trouble"? Answer: Macbeth
39. Which month comes first in the year? Answer: January
40. How many months are in a year? Answer: 12
41. How many days are in a leap year? Answer: 366
42. Which month gets an extra day in a leap year? Answer: February
43. How many seconds are in one minute? Answer: 60
44. What is the date of New Year's Eve? Answer: December 31
45. How many days are in January? Answer: 31
46. At what time on the clock does a new day begin? Answer: Midnight
47. What is the name of the calendar most of the world uses? Answer: The Gregorian calendar
48. What is the Jewish New Year called? Answer: Rosh Hashanah
49. In which month is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States? Answer: November
50. Which Thursday of November is Thanksgiving in the United States? Answer: The fourth Thursday
51. What is the name of the horn-shaped basket shown overflowing with harvest foods? Answer: A cornucopia, or horn of plenty
52. The best-known Thanksgiving Day parade, famous for its giant balloons, is held in which city? Answer: New York City
53. Which holiday figure arrives at the very end of the big Thanksgiving Day parade? Answer: Santa Claus
54. What do shoppers call the day after Thanksgiving? Answer: Black Friday
55. What is the chemical symbol for gold? Answer: Au
56. What gemstone sits at the top of the Mohs hardness scale? Answer: Diamond
57. How many bones are in the adult human body? Answer: 206
58. What is the closest star to Earth? Answer: The Sun
59. What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system? Answer: The Milky Way
60. What gas makes up most of Earth's atmosphere? Answer: Nitrogen
61. What do the letters DNA stand for? Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid
62. What kind of animal was Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell? Answer: Sheep
63. What silvery metal, once common in thermometers, is liquid at room temperature? Answer: Mercury
64. What was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006? Answer: Pluto
65. What is the capital of Australia? Answer: Canberra
66. What is the capital of Canada? Answer: Ottawa
67. What is the largest ocean on Earth? Answer: The Pacific
68. In which country is the Taj Mahal? Answer: India
69. What is the smallest country in the world? Answer: Vatican City
70. What is the largest country in the world by area? Answer: Russia
71. Which of the Great Lakes lies entirely inside the United States? Answer: Lake Michigan
72. Who was the first President of the United States? Answer: George Washington
73. In what year did World War II end? Answer: 1945
74. What ocean liner sank on its first voyage in April 1912? Answer: The Titanic
75. Who was the first person to walk on the Moon? Answer: Neil Armstrong
76. Who painted the Mona Lisa? Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
77. Which English king had six wives? Answer: Henry VIII
78. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Answer: Marie Curie
79. What fruit is the main ingredient in guacamole? Answer: Avocado
80. What spice comes from the dried threads of a crocus flower? Answer: Saffron
81. What Italian dessert has a name that means "pick me up"? Answer: Tiramisu
82. What three foods do the letters in a BLT sandwich stand for? Answer: Bacon, lettuce and tomato
83. What sea animal is served as calamari? Answer: Squid
84. What is the largest animal alive today? Answer: Blue whale
85. What is the only mammal that can truly fly? Answer: Bat
86. How many hearts does an octopus have? Answer: Three
87. What is the traditional collective noun for a group of crows? Answer: Murder
88. Which seahorse parent carries the eggs until they hatch? Answer: The male
89. What is the largest fish in the sea? Answer: Whale shark
90. What color is a polar bear's skin under its fur? Answer: Black
91. What sport is played with a shuttlecock? Answer: Badminton
92. What word means a score of zero in tennis? Answer: Love
93. How many rings are on the Olympic flag? Answer: Five
94. In chess, which piece can jump over other pieces? Answer: Knight
95. What three sports make up a triathlon? Answer: Swimming, cycling and running
96. How many cards are in a standard deck, not counting jokers? Answer: 52
97. What do opposite sides of a standard die always add up to? Answer: Seven
98. In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, what color are Dorothy's slippers? Answer: Red (ruby red)
99. In the Star Wars films, who turns out to be Luke Skywalker's father? Answer: Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker)
100. In Back to the Future, what speed in miles per hour must the car reach to travel through time? Answer: 88
101. In Forrest Gump, what does Forrest's mother say life is like? Answer: A box of chocolates
102. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, what animals is Indiana Jones afraid of? Answer: Snakes
103. How many strings does a standard guitar have? Answer: Six
104. How many keys does a standard piano have? Answer: 88
105. Who composed The Four Seasons? Answer: Vivaldi
106. Which composer wrote his Ninth Symphony after he had gone almost completely deaf? Answer: Beethoven
107. What family of instruments does the saxophone belong to? Answer: Woodwind
108. What do you call a word that reads the same forward and backward? Answer: Palindrome
109. What Japanese word means "empty orchestra"? Answer: Karaoke
110. What is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any US state? Answer: Q
111. What is the small dot over a lowercase i called? Answer: Tittle
112. How many items are in a baker's dozen? Answer: 13
113. What is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order when spelled out in English? Answer: Forty
114. What do the letters "a.m." stand for? Answer: Ante meridiem

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Five from this list: What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system? (The Milky Way) Which of the Great Lakes lies entirely inside the United States? (Lake Michigan) What sea animal is served as calamari? (Squid) What three sports make up a triathlon? (Swimming, cycling and running) What family of instruments does the saxophone belong to? (Woodwind)

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