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1 What colour flowers does a Christmas cactus have ...?
2 ... and what colour flowers does a Christmas rose have?
3 'In which Shakespearean play do these words appear:
"At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows ...'?
4 ... and who composed the lines beginning:
'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know ...'?
5 ... and in which 1942 film did the song beginning with those words feature?
6 Who wrote:
'Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.'?
7 Who started as follows:
'One Christmas was so much like another... I can never remember whether it snowed for six
days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve
nights when I was six.'?
8 How many birds, in total, did 'my true love' send in The Twelve Days of Christmas?
9 Which American industrialist stated 'We're going to try to get the boys out of the
trenches before Christmas'?
10 Who said in A Night at the Opera, 'You can't fool me mister. There ain't no Santy
Claus.'?
11 In Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester, what happened on Christmas morning?
12 Who said that 'every idiot who goes about with a "Merry Christmas" on his
lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his
heart.'?
13 There are two Christmas Islands. In which oceans are they?
14 And where is Christmas Creek?
15 Who wrote the song 'Do they know it's Christmas?' in 1984?
16 Which American born store-owner, who gave his name to a famous London store wrote 'The
Christmas season has begun and but twenty-three shopping days remain ... '?
17 Which poet wrote:
'And things are done you'd not believe
At Madingley on Christmas Eve.'?
18 Who was described by Sir (Henry) Max Beerbohm as 'reminding him of a Christmas-tree
decorated by a pre-Raphaelite'?
19 What part of the body does Christmas disease affect?
20 And finally, which US writer and poet concluded with this verse:
'He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
Happy Christmas to all. And to all a good night.'?
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