Christmas is dubbed by many as the most wonderful time of the year. It is full of joyful caroling, feel-good movies, delightful treats, and festive decorations. The holiday season inspires musical numbers ranging from children’s rhymes to ballads and everything in between.
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Children’s Christmas Song Trivia Questions
The magic of the Christmas season begins with little children. School programs are filled with musical numbers that celebrate kindness, gift-giving, and holiday cheer. Staples like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer are played endlessly throughout the Christmas season.
Questions:
- What activity inspired the song “Jingle Bells”?
- What brings Frosty the Snowman to life?
- In “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” how many reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh?
- What does Alvin the Chipmunk want in “The Chipmunk Song”?
- How many gifts did the singer receive in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”?
- What word is used for “family” in the song “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”?
- In “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” what is his brain full of?
- In “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” the singer tells children, “You better not cry” and “You better not _____.”
- Who has a button nose?
- In “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” who sends the gifts?
Classic Holiday Carol Trivia
The Christmas holiday elicits so much cheer that the list of cherished holiday music classics is long. Many of these songs have been recorded and re-recorded by different artists in different genres and eras to keep the spirit of Christmas music alive.
Questions:
- What year was “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” first recorded?
- What beverage does the singer tell the audience to have a cup of in “A Holly Jolly Christmas”?
- What movie from popular culture references “Jingle Bell Rock” in the opening scene?
- What Christmas song is known by two different names?
- Who first recorded the Frank Sinatra hit “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”?
- How old was singer Brenda Lee when she recorded the classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”?
- What Chuck Berry hit was based on the classic children’s song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”?
- What is the most published Christmas hymn?
- Since 1963, many artists have recorded “White Christmas,” but only one charted with it in the modern era. Who was that?
- What tune does Carol Brady lead the carolers in during the 1988 “A Very Brady Christmas”?
Popular Culture Christmas Song Trivia
Professional singers, including pop stars and jazz legends, put their own special spin on the holidays by releasing covers and originals of Christmas-themed music. Some of the most iconic voices have even put out entire Christmas albums that play on a loop on many radio stations during the Christmas season.
- What pop singer has been named the Queen of Christmas?
- What pop Christmas hit was released in 1984 but did not rank in the charts until 2017?
- What country music icon wrote Roy Orbison’s hit “Pretty Paper”?
- What kind of bird has gone away in Ella Fitzgerald’s “Winter Wonderland”?
- What iconic Elvis Presley Christmas song was digitally remastered into a 2008 duet with the King?
- The original recording of what song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1964?
- Country duo Joey + Rory wrote which Christmas tune during a stay at their family farm in Indiana?
- Jim Brickman and Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik released which tribute to deployed soldiers?
- What Beach Boys song features Santa’s sleigh as a Nordic hot rod?
- Why did the little boy buy his mother’s shoes in the song “The Christmas Shoes”?
- Country star Kacey Musgraves collaborated with Willie Nelson and others on which playful holiday track?
- Elmo of Elmo and Patsy (of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”) has what day job?
- What comedic Christmas song parodies holiday greed and consumerism?
- Which Katy Perry holiday single nods to Danish Christmas culture?
- Which Barenaked Ladies track is a witty nod to “A Christmas Carol”?
Christmas Song Trivia Questions Takeaway
Music is an integral part of celebration, and no festive season feels complete without a perfectly themed soundtrack. Some songs are traditional and passed down through generations, recorded and re-recorded as new artists lend their voices. Others are original works that instantly earn a place on every holiday playlist.
To many music artists, great Christmas songs are a category all their own. You can’t simply take any tune and tag festive lyrics onto it. A classic holiday song feels like Christmas from the first note to the last.
Susan majored in English with a double minor in Humanities and Business at Arizona State University and earned a Master’s degree in Educational Administration from Liberty University. She taught grades four through twelve in both public and private schools. Subjects included English, U.S. and world history and geography, math, earth and physical science, Bible, information technologies, and creative writing.
Susan has been freelance writing for over ten years, during which time she has written and edited books, newspaper articles, biographies, book reviews, guidelines, neighborhood descriptions for realtors, Power Point presentations, resumes, and numerous other projects.
