Christmas Songs Trivia: 10 Fun Questions & Answers for the Holidays

Think you know your Christmas music? From timeless carols and holiday movie favorites to chart-topping classics, these 10 Christmas songs trivia questions will put your festive knowledge to the test!

We've mixed familiar holiday tunes with surprising music history, memorable lyrics, and a few tricky questions that might even stump the biggest Christmas music fans.

Whether you're hosting a Christmas party, planning a holiday trivia night, or just looking for some festive fun, grab a cup of cocoa, turn up the holiday playlist, and see how many you can answer.

Play along! Click the questions to reveal the answers.

• 1. Written by a husband-and-wife songwriting team in 1962, “Do You Hear What I Hear?” was inspired by what political situation?

  Cuban Missile Crisis

• 2. What popular Christmas duet, originally written by Frank Loesser to perform with his wife at parties, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1950?

  Baby, It’s Cold Outside

• 3. O Tannenbaum refers (in German) to what kind of tree-- pine, fir, or spruce?

  Fir

• 4. In the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” how many gifts are given in total, counting all the repeated gifts throughout the song?

  364

• 5. What 1944 Christmas song was introduced by Judy Garland in the film Meet Me in St. Louis?

  Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

• 6. What raspy 1958 Christmas hit, recorded when its singer was just 13 years old, finally reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023?

  Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

• 7. What Christmas song, introduced in a 1966 animated television special, was sung by the same man who voiced Tony the Tiger?

  You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

• 8. Parson Brown is a fictional, generic Protestant minister from what classic holiday song?

  Winter Wonderland

• 9. What Christmas song is sung to the tune of the traditional English song “Greensleeves”?

  What Child Is This?

• 10. Containing just 19 different words, what 1970 Christmas song was written by a blind Puerto Rican musician in approximately 10 minutes?

  Feliz Navidad

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