QUIZ: Can you get 100% on our Christmas lyrics quiz?

26 November 2024, 14:37

Tis the season to be quizzy!

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a few essential musical ingredients.

That means carols, sleigh bells, choirs and the rich history of hit Christmas singles.

But how well do you know the words to the biggest seasonal songs around? Test yourself with our Xmas quiz... some lyrics questions are easy, some are fiendishly hard!

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And once you're done, you can load up this page around the tree and play quizmaster for the whole family.

If you want to take things up a level, offer up one point for the right lyric, and a bonus each for the song title and artist name. Full answers under the Noddy below!

Merry Quizmas!

Questions

1. We're walking in the air / We're floating in the _______

2. The boys of the _______ / Still singing Galway Bay

3. And the Christmas bells that ring there / Are the _____________

4. Where the ___________ and children listen

5. Let's hope the ____ will make this Christmas right

6. Now the frosticles appear / And they've ________

7. Does your _____ always tell ya / That the old songs are the best

8. It's the season / _____________ / Merry Christmas everyone

9. I keep my distance, but you still catch my eye / __________________

10. It'll be lonely this Christmas / Without you to hold / It'll be lonely this Christmas ____________

11. Top to toe in tailbacks / Oh, __________________

12. And so this is Christmas / I hope you had fun / __________ / The old and the young

13. The choir of children sing their song / __________________________________________

14. They said there'll be snow at Christmas / They said ____________________

15. Rockin' around the Christmas tree / At the ____________

Answers

1. Moonlit sky (from 'Walking in the Air' - by Peter Auty, later covered by Aled Jones)

2. NYPD choir ('Fairytale of New York' by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl)

3. Clanging chimes of doom (from 'Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid)

4. Treetops glisten (from 'White Christmas' by Bing Crosby)

5. Snow ('Thank God It's Christmas' by Queen)

6. Frozen up my beard ('I WIsh It Could be Christmas Everyday' by Wizzard)

7. Granny ('Merry Xmas Everbody' by Slade)

8. Love and understanding ('Merry Christmas Everyone' by Shakin' Stevens)

9. Once bitten and twice shy ('Last Christmas' by Wham!)

10. Lonely and cold ('Lonely This Christmas' by Mud)

11. I got red lights all around ('Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea)

12. The near and the dear ones ('Happy Xmas (War is Over)' by John Lennon and Yoko Ono)

13. Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding / Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh / Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh .; Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo ('Wonderful Christmastime' by Paul McCartney

14. There'll be peace on earth ('I Believe in Father Christmas' by Greg Lake)

15. Christmas party hop ('Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee)