Christmas Song Trivia - 79 Fun Kid-Friendly Questions (2023)

If you’re looking to challenge your kids or your friends with some Christmas trivia questions, this list is a good place to get started. The holiday season is a popular time for Christmas music, so this family friendly Christmas song trivia for kids and adults is a great way to have some fun.

Trivia is fun for kids of all ages and for adults that have a competitive spirit. This trivia will challenge you on the most popular Christmas songs including some easy ones and a selection of trickier questions. These questions will sure to have even the most confident players questioning their Christmas knowledge.

You’ll be quizzed and challenged on a blend of traditional carols and popular Christmas carols in the United States. You’ll recognize these songs from the street corner speakers or overhead in the department store, even if you aren’t one to play holiday tunes at home.

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Time to throw up some Christmas decorations, set out a bowl of candy canes, and challenge your friends and loved ones to Christmas music trivia.

Good luck!

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Christmas Song Trivia Questions

In the song “Deck the Halls,” what should we do with boughs of holly?
Answer: “Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.”
Complete the lyrics to this popular song: “Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, ________ down Santa Claus Lane.”
Answer: Right.
Which song describes a scene where “children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow”?
Answer: “Winter Wonderland”.
Who sang the song “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” in the 1985 animated movie “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”?
Answer: Fred Astaire.
In the song “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” Santa “sees you when you’re sleeping” and “knows when you’re awake.” What else does he know?
Answer: “He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.”
Who recorded the song “Santa Baby”?
Answer: Eartha Kitt.
Which song describes a scene where the streets are covered with “silver and gold”?
Answer: “Silver and Gold” from the movie “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.
In the song “Jingle Bells,” what is it “fun” to ride in?
Answer: A one-horse open sleigh.
Which song mentions “snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes”?
Answer: “My Favorite Things” (often sung during Christmas).
Complete the lyrics: “You’re a ________ one, Mr. Grinch.”
Answer: Mean.
In the song “Silent Night,” what is the birthplace of Jesus?
Answer: Bethlehem.
Which song describes a “rockin’ around the Christmas tree” party?
Answer: “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”.
Who recorded the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”?
Answer: Andy Williams.
In the song “Feliz Navidad,” what does the singer wish you?
Answer: A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Complete the lyrics: “Joy to the ______, the Lord is come.”
Answer: World.
Which song encourages you to “Hang a shining star upon the highest bough”?
Answer: “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”.
In the song “Up on the Housetop,” what does Santa bring to the children?
Answer: Toys.
Complete the lyrics: “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is _______.”
Answer: Bright.
Finish the lyrics: “I’m dreaming of a __________.”
Answer: White Christmas.
In the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” what does Rudolph lead Santa’s sleigh through?
Answer: The foggy night.
In the song “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”, what does the singer want to do with the person they’re with?
Answer: “Hold them tight” or “kiss goodnight”.
Complete the lyrics: “Here we come a-wassailing, among the leaves so _______.”
Answer: Green.
Who sang the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”?
Answer: Traditional, various artists.
In the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” what gift is given on the tenth day?
Answer: Ten lords-a-leaping.
Complete the lyrics: “O come, all ye faithful, joyful and _______.”
Answer: Triumphant.
Who recorded the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”?
Answer: Various artists, but the original recording was by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalbán.
Complete the lyrics: “Sleigh bells ring, are you _______?”
Answer: Listening.
In the song “Here Comes Santa Claus,” what is Santa Claus doing?
Answer: Coming to town.
Who sang the song “Do You Hear What I Hear” in the original recording?
Answer: Bing Crosby.
Complete the lyrics: “Go, tell it on the mountain, over the hills and _______.”
Answer: Everywhere.
In the song “Frosty the Snowman,” what do the children use as Frosty’s nose?
Answer: A button.
In the song “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” who is making a list and checking it twice?
Answer: Santa Claus.
Who recorded the song “O Holy Night”?Answer: Various artists, but the popular version by Josh Groban is well-known.
Complete the lyrics: “Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open _______.”
Answer: Sleigh.
In the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” what is happening?
Answer: It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
Who recorded the song “Jingle Bell Rock”?
Answer: Bobby Helms.
Complete the lyrics: “O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how ________ are your branches!”
Answer: Lovely.
In the song “Jingle Bells,” who is laughing all the way?
Answer: Santa Claus.
Who recorded the song “Blue Christmas”?
Answer: Elvis Presley.
Complete the lyrics: “Santa Claus is coming to town, he’s making a _______.”
Answer: List.
In the song “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” what is the new old-fashioned way?
Answer: Dancing merrily in the new old-fashioned way.
Who recorded the song “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”?
Answer: Dean Martin.
Complete the lyrics: “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, toys in every _______.”
Answer: Store.
In the song “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” what should you do if you want to be on the “nice” list?
Answer: “You better be good for goodness sake.”
Which song mentions “a partridge in a pear tree”?
Answer: “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.
Who recorded the song “Silver Bells”?
Answer: Bing Crosby and Carol Richards.
Complete the lyrics: “Santa Claus is coming to town, he’s making a _______.”
Answer: List.
In the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” what is Rudolph’s nose compared to?
Answer: A lightbulb.
In the song “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” what time did this happen?
Answer: On Christmas Eve.
Complete the lyrics: “Frosty the Snowman, was a jolly, happy _______.”
Answer: Soul.
In the song “Winter Wonderland,” what is the nature of the snowman?
Answer: In the meadow, we can build a snowman.
Complete the lyrics: “Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, ________ down Santa Claus Lane.”
Answer: Right.
Complete the lyrics: “Deck the halls with _______ of holly.”
Answer: Boughs.
In the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” what is Rudolph’s nose compared to?
Answer: A lightbulb.
What was given on the fifth day of Christmas in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”?
Answer: 5 golden rings, 4 calling birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Complete the lyrics: “Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock, _______ and _______ in Jingle Bell Square.”
Answer: Jingle bell swing, jingle bell ring.
In the song “Frosty the Snowman,” what are Frosty’s eyes made of?
Answer: Coal.
Complete the lyrics: “Up on the rooftop, _______ paws, out jumps good old Santa Claus.”
Answer: Reindeer.
In the song “Winter Wonderland,” where do they plan to build the snowman?
Answer: In the meadow, we can build a snowman.
In the song “Jingle Bell Rock,” what is the time of rocking around the Christmas tree?
Answer: The clock is striking 12.
In the song “Frosty the Snowman,” what happens to Frosty when the weather gets warmer?
Answer: He melts away.
Along with “two eyes made out of coal” and a “button nose”, what else does Frosty have in the song “Frosty the Snowman”?
Answer: A corn cob pipe.
In the song “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” what do the singers want as a reward for their singing?
Answer: Figgy pudding.
In the song “The Twelve Days Of Christmas”, what did the lover send on the third day of Christmas?
Answer: Three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Which popular Christmas song is about the “most famous reindeer of them all”?
Answer: Rudolph, The Red-Nose Reindeer
In the song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” what does the Grinch have in his soul?
Answer: Garlic.
What was the first Christmas carol to be broadcast in space?
Answer: According to the Guinness Book Of World Records, the song “Jingle Bells” was played on December 16, 1965 during NASA’s Gemini 6A space flight.
In the song, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, what three things does the singer ask for?
Answer: “Please have snow, and mistletoe, and presents by the tree.”
What movie is the hit song “Where Are You Christmas” from?
Answer: How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
In the Christmas song “The Little Drummer Boy”, what was he told to bring to the newborn King?
Answer: Gifts.
Which song mentions “a snowman” and “pretending that he is Parson Brown”?
Answer: “Winter Wonderland”.
In the song “Frosty the Snowman,” what happens when Frosty comes to life?
Answer: He begins to dance around.
In Mariah Carey’s hit song “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, she says she won’t make a list and send it where and to who?
Answer: “To the North Pole for Saint Nick”.
Finish the lyrics to this song from Polar Express: “Here we’ve got only got one rule: never, ever ________!”
Answer: Let it cool.
In the song “Frosty The Snowman”, where do they think the magic came from?
Answer: The old silk hat – “there must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found”
According to this famous song, a red nose helped tremendously on a foggy Christmas eve.
Answer: “Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer.”
In the song “12 Days of Christmas”, who is the one giving the gifts?
Answer: My true love.
What Christmas song encourages you to “have a cup of cheer”?
Answer: Have A Holly Jolly Christmas.
What famous Christmas song says “we’re here tonight, and that’s enough.”
Answer: Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney.

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Ideas To Use Christmas Song Trivia

This Christmas game will be sure to get you in the ho-ho-holiday spirit and liven up any Christmas party. Trivia games are fun for family nights, workplace events, or even for kids to enjoy at a school Holiday party.

Organize into teams. Give each team a dry-erase board and answer at the same time
Create Christmas music quiz questions using the trivia prompts below. Check the answers against an answer key.
Go one-by-one and give each person one question to answer. If they get it right, they stay in the game, but if they get it wrong, they’re out!
Place the trivia questions into a bowl and have each person draw one out randomly
On Christmas Day, the first person to answer the question gets to open the next gift
For a tie-breaker, play a Christmas song at random and ask the person a question about the song (I.e. Who sings this? What Christmas movie is this from? What are the next lyrics?)