History on Christmas Day
Flip through the pages of the past with this holiday trivia game featuring historical events that happened on Christmas Day.
15 questions · Published November 27, 2023
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Which film earned Christmas birthday boy Humphrey Bogart an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Though he was also nominated for "Casablanca" (1952) and "The Caine Mutiny" (1954), Humphrey Bogart nabbed his lone Academy Award for the 1951 adventure film "The African Queen."
- Multiple Choice
2. What Hollywood legend plays Atticus Finch in the movie adaption of "To Kill a Mockingbird," released on Christmas Day 1962?
Gregory Peck stars as lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird."
- Multiple Choice
3. Which member of Hollywood's notorious Rat Pack died on Christmas Day 1995?
"King of Cool" Dean Martin, a heavy smoker, died from lung cancer at his home on Christmas Day 1995.
- Drag and Drop Reorder
4. Arrange these singers with Christmas Day birthdays from oldest to youngest.
- 1.Annie Lennox
- 2.Jimmy Buffett
- 3.Alannah Myles
- 4.Dido
"Margaritaville" singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett was born December 25, 1946.
"Eurythmics" singer Annie Lennox was born eight years later in 1954.
Canadian singer Alannah Myles, best-known for the 1990 song "Black Velvet," was born in Toronto in 1958.
Dido, born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong on Christmas Day in 1971, derives her stage name from a Carthaginian queen.
- Multiple Choice
5. Which religious figure is credited with assembling the first Nativity scene in the thirteenth century?
Inspired by a visit to the Holy Land and the birthplace of Jesus, Saint Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the first nativity scene.
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