2023 Christmas Quiz

QUESTION 1

They call me Father Christmas, Santa Claus, Lord Christmas, Pere Noel, Krishkinkle, the spirit of Christmas and the Ghost of Christmas Present. I’ve presided over Christmas feasts and led the merriment. I’ve worn a fur-trimmed robe and a wreath of holly, rode a yule goat, and shared a wassail bowl. I’ve been a magician, a hunchback, a skinny elf, a jolly old man and a generous squire. I’ve represented hospitality when it ailed and left presents in shoes and stockings. I’ve dressed in green, red and white with a frost-covered hood, and lived in Lapland and the North Pole.

QUESTION 2

All I want for Christmas is you. A renamed city music venue was recently refurbished and reopened in time for the 2023 festive season.

QUESTION 3

It's my job to navigate the places of the world on my Christmas eve round, and this map shows an especially twinkly part of Wiltshire. Can you throw light on the answer (ho ho ho)?

QUESTION 4

Tis the season of giving. A kindly Chippenham boss decided to give away a fifth of the company to staff this year.

QUESTION 5

Away in a manager, no crib for a bed...

Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus and, as someone who loves seeing happy children, anything which helps the safe delivery of babies is fine by me.

This Bristol-based company has made it to my nice list with their new training manikin to reduce birthing injuries to babies.

QUESTION 6

Tis the season of giving #2.

Staff of Barratt David Wilson Homes hosted a golf tournament in June in aid of cancer charity Sarcoma.

QUESTION 7

Fur-trimmed hats off to my hardworking elves, especially in December.

Some of them must come from the Wiltshire town which beat London as having one of the highest productivity rates in the UK.

QUESTION 8

A reindeer-driven sleigh does a grand job transporting the presents.

But this year two iconic vehicles appeared to reach the end of the road.

QUESTION 9

You can follow me on Christmas Eve via USA and Canada's NORAD app. But a popular app was banned on UK government phones in March.

QUESTION 10

Don't have flying reindeer? A train might get you where you need to go, especially with new railway stations to embark at.

QUESTION 11

I’m known for using chimneys to magic myself into homes on Christmas Eve to fill the stockings of sleeping children. Children smile at my presents, but the Grinch got to house prices in April.

QUESTION 12

I’m a jolly old man who runs a workshop of elves alongside Mother Christmas. If I want to encourage the elves age 50 plus to stay in my workforce, according to Swindon-based Zurich, there's an important choice I need to give them.

QUESTION 13

I’ve made a list, I’ve checked it twice and it appears a Chippenham-based furniture company is top of my nice list for donating £120,000 worth of household goods to Devizes-based charity Kennet Furniture Refurbiz, to help many families in Wiltshire and prevent waste.

QUESTION 14

Small can be good - just look at the elves in my workshop - and so is being clean (though best not to look behind the elves’ ears!).

A Hollywood-backed(!) Bristol-based company gives back to the planet with their washing machine filters, which capture microplastics from laundry and stop tiny particles from polluting the world’s rivers and oceans.

QUESTION 15

Tis the season of giving #3.

Swindon’s Big Dog Arts Trail took place in July and the Swindogs sculptures were auctioned off in September.

Tetbury-based Survival Equipment Services bought ‘Julia’s Hound’ as a gift for the Wiltshire charity Julia’s House.

QUESTION 16

It's impossible to forget Christmas, but what symbol of remembrance was given a plastic-free makeover this year by Bath design studio Matter?

QUESTION 17

When I’m done delivering presents, Mother Christmas and I like to relax with a new year spa break. A Newbury hotel won the Good Hotel Guide’s Césars award for the best country hotel this year.

QUESTION 18

When I’m up and down the chimneys, a carrot for Rudolph and a mince pie and a tipple keeps me merry.

It’s a spring chicken compared to me, but a famous beer from Devizes celebrated its 100th anniversary this month.

QUESTION 19

Who doesn’t like smashing into a chocolate version of me for Christmas Day breakfast?

Business Biscuit did some chocolate smashing in Bristol this year which sounded like jolly good fun, ho ho ho!

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