First time Band Aid topped 
the charts

1 — A new version of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas is this year’s Christmas Number 1. When did it first top the charts?
2 — In The Twelve Days Of Christmas, how many partridges does my true love receive? 
3 — If the evil Abanazar is on stage during the panto, what are you watching?
4 — ISMKSC are the initials of which popular song?
5 — According to a hard-hitting TV campaign of a few years ago what is “one Christmas tradition we can all do without”?
6 — Which plant, popular at Christmas, takes its name from a US ambassador to Mexico? 
7 — Why do we take down our decorations before Twelfth Night?
8 — What’s the seasonal significance of meleagris gallopava?
9 — In the song The Christmas Alphabet, what does ‘I’ stand for?
10 — When did the Queen make her first Christmas Day TV broadcast — 1956, 1957, 1958 or 1959?
11 — Name four towns or cities beginning with Santa. 
12 — Which falls first next year — your Christmas or New Year holiday?
13 — Big Crosby sang the most famous version of the song White Christmas, but who else had a Top 30 hit in the UK with the song?
14 — Which member of the Royal Family has her birthday on Christmas Day?
15 — In which country do they call Santa, Kriss Kringle?
16 — Hanging up mistletoe at Christmas originated in which country?
17 — Name the three kings who visited the baby Jesus. 
18 — Who is Bob Cratchit’s son in A Christmas Carol? 
19 — Why are Christmas carols so called? 
20 — Which one of Santa Claus’s reindeers is missing from this list — Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, December 26, 2004

1 — Christmas, 1984.
2 — 12, because she receives one each day. 
3 — Aladdin.
4 — I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus.
5 — Drinking and driving.
6 — The poinsettia. In 1828, Dr. Joel Poinsett, an amateur naturalist, introduced the poinsettia to the States. 
7 — It’s officially the end of the Christmas season and the eve of another event on the Christian calendar, the feast of the Epiphany. 
8 — It’s the scientific name for turkey. 
9 — The icing on the cake as sweet as sugar cane. 
10 — 1957.
11 — Any four from Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Santa Fe, Santa Monica, Santa Ana, Santa Rosa, etc. 
12 — New Year of course! 
13 —Pat Boone. 
14 — Princess Alexandra. 
15 — Originally Germany, but it’s commonly used in the USA, too.
16 — England. 
17 — Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar. 
18 — Tiny Tim. 
19 — At one time carol singers danced too. ‘Caroler’ is Old French for ‘to dance’. 
20 — Vixen.