Many thanks to Peter Macinnis for the content 
and Chris Betcher for the quiz code

1. In 1974, one Australian city had a miserable Christmas experience because of a disaster. What was the city and the disaster?

   1.   ?    Sydney, Bushfires
   2.   ?    Newcastle, Earthquake
   3.   ?    Darwin, Cyclone
   4.   ?    Brisbane, Floods

2. In what period did 25 December become the traditional day to celebrate Christmas?

   1.   ?    4th Century
   2.   ?    8th Century
   3.   ?    1st Century
   4.   ?    14th Century

3. On the eleventh day of Christmas, what did my true love bring to me?

   1.   ?    11 pipers piping
   2.   ?    11 lords-a-leaping
   3.   ?    11 swans a-swimming
   4.   ?    11 drummers drumming

4. This appropriately named national park is in the Indian Ocean, 2600 km northwest of Perth, 360 km south of Jakarta. What is it called?

   1.   ?    Santa Atoll
   2.   ?    Christmas Island
   3.   ?    Yule Reef
   4.   ?    Boxing Day Island

5. What country has St Nicholas as its patron saint?

   1.   ?    The Czech Republic
   2.   ?    The Netherlands
   3.   ?    Russia
   4.   ?    Poland

6. What happened on Ross's Farm at Christmas time?

   1.   ?    a plague of locusts
   2.   ?    a fire
   3.   ?    a hailstorm
   4.   ?    a flood

7. What name is more commonly given to the Australian flower, Blandfordia grandiflora?

   1.   ?    Christmas Lily
   2.   ?    Christmas Tree
   3.   ?    Christmas Bush
   4.   ?    Christmas Bells

8. What weather condition gets its name because it starts just after Christmas?

   1.   ?    Aurora Borealis
   2.   ?    Aurora Australis
   3.   ?    Christmas Monsoon
   4.   ?    El Nino

9. When is Advent Sunday?

   1.   ?    The 4th Sunday before Christmas
   2.   ?    The 3rd Sunday before Christmas
   3.   ?    The Sunday before Christmas
   4.   ?    The 2nd Sunday before Christmas

10. Which famous Christmas story begins 'One dollar and eighty-seven cents'?

    1.   ?    A Child's Christmas in Wales
    2.   ?    A Christmas Carol
    3.   ?    The Gift of the Magi
    4.   ?    Christmas Day in the Workhouse

11. Who sang 'White Christmas,' in the 1942 film 'Holiday Inn'?

    1.   ?    Louis Armstrong
    2.   ?    Frank Sinatra
    3.   ?    Bing Crosby
    4.   ?    Bob Hope

12. Who wrote about Christmas 'One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner . . .

    1.   ?    Robert Browning
    2.   ?    Charles Dickens
    3.   ?    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    4.   ?    Dylan Thomas

13. At the start of 'A Christmas Carol', we are told that somebody is dead. Who is it?

    1.   ?    Bob Cratchit
    2.   ?    Tiny Tim's sister
    3.   ?    Scrooge
    4.   ?    Marley

14. In 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church wrote a famous letter, saying that there WAS a Santa Claus. Who was the letter addressed to?

    1.   ?    Viola
    2.   ?    Virginia
    3.   ?    Victoria
    4.   ?    Vitruvia

15. In which year did Cuba reinstate Christmas, to celebrate a visit from the Pope?

    1.   ?    1987
    2.   ?    1967
    3.   ?    1977
    4.   ?    1997

16. On Christmas Day, 1788, what did Mr. Johnson do?

    1.   ?    choked on a fishbone
    2.   ?    preached a sermon
    3.   ?    collapsed from heat exhaustion
    4.   ?    danced a jig and a hornpipe

17. On Christmas Day, 1838, what did Lise Meitner invent?

    1.   ?    a new type of cosmetic
    2.   ?    the words of Silent Night
    3.   ?    a new model of the universe
    4.   ?    nuclear fission

18. On Christmas Day, 1844, what did Ludwig Leichhardt and his party eat?

    1.   ?    suet pudding and stewed cockatoos
    2.   ?    camel's foot and emu eggs
    3.   ?    horse meat and fried crow
    4.   ?    crocodile eggs and kangaroo

19. What Robert Louis Stevenson poem starts 'The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand . . '?

    1.   ?    A Christmas Carol
    2.   ?    Christmas Day in the Workhouse
    3.   ?    Christmas at Sea
    4.   ?    Ben Duggan

20. What were used to make 'a Christmas booklet for the children of their white supplanters', according to K. Langloh Parker?

    1.   ?    the songs of the Pitjantjatjara
    2.   ?    the legends of the Noongahburrahs
    3.   ?    possum skins
    4.   ?    paperbark

21. Who is usually given the credit for writing the poem that starts 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house . . .

    1.   ?    Dylan Thomas
    2.   ?    Charles Dickens
    3.   ?    Clement Clarke Moore
    4.   ?    Henry Livingston Junior

22. Who really wrote the poem that starts 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house . . .

    1.   ?    Clement Clarke Moore
    2.   ?    Charles Dickens
    3.   ?    Dylan Thomas
    4.   ?    Henry Livingston Junior

23. On December 23, 1873, explorers Giles and Gibson ate Christmas pudding and what?

    1.   ?    wombat
    2.   ?    rock wallaby
    3.   ?    horse
    4.   ?    emu

24. Who wrote a short carol: 'May all my enemies go to hell, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel'?

    1.   ?    Robespierre
    2.   ?    Ebenezer Scrooge
    3.   ?    G H Hardy
    4.   ?    Hilaire Belloc

25. Who wrote 'Christmas Day in the Workhouse

    1.   ?    George Sims
    2.   ?    George Crabbe
    3.   ?    Rudyard Kipling
    4.   ?    Charles Dickens