Office Christmas trivia questions and answers

Fifty Christmas trivia questions for the office, in five rounds of ten, with the answers folded away under each round so nobody peeks. There's an Aussie Christmas round, Christmas around the world, films and songs, food, and a round on the season itself, plus a tiebreaker.

They're pitched for a mixed office: a few easy ones to get everyone on the board, a few that will start an argument. Nothing rude, nothing religious beyond the basics of the season, and nothing that needs a phone to look up.

• Aussie Christmas
• Around the world
• Films and songs
• Food
• The season
• Tiebreaker

How to run an office Christmas quiz

• Teams of four to six. Mix departments, so the finance team isn't one table.
• One sheet per team. A team name at the top, answers numbered 1 to 10 for each round.
• Read each question twice. Then give about 30 seconds before the next one.
• Mark at the end of each round. Teams swap sheets, you read the answers, and you keep a running score where everyone can see it.
• Keep the tiebreaker. Closest number wins. It ends arguments fast.

Round 1: Aussie Christmas trivia

1. Christmas Island is Australian. Is it in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific Ocean?
2. What colour are the millions of crabs that migrate across Christmas Island each year?
3. Which yacht race starts on Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day?
4. At which ground is the Boxing Day Test played?
5. The pavlova is named after Anna Pavlova. What was she famous for?
6. Which New South Wales town calls itself the cherry capital of Australia?
7. By December, the New South Wales Christmas bush has turned what colour?
8. What do many Australians call a Christmas cracker?
9. Melbourne's Carols by Candlelight is held at which outdoor venue?
10. Paul Kelly's 1996 Christmas song tells you how to make what?

Answers to round 1

1. The Indian Ocean.
2. Red.
3. The Sydney to Hobart.
4. The Melbourne Cricket Ground (the MCG).
5. Ballet. She was a Russian ballerina.
6. Young.
7. Red.
8. A bonbon.
9. The Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
10. Gravy.

Round 2: Christmas around the world

1. In which country is a bucket of fried chicken a popular Christmas dinner?
2. Which country sends a Christmas tree to London's Trafalgar Square every year?
3. In Iceland, how many Yule Lads visit in the nights before Christmas?
4. Panettone, the tall, domed Christmas bread, comes from which country?
5. Las Posadas, nine nights of celebration before Christmas, is a tradition in which country?
6. "Mele Kalikimaka" is Merry Christmas in which language?
7. Stollen, a fruit bread dusted with icing sugar, comes from which country?
8. Saint Nicholas, the man behind Santa, was a bishop in a town that is now in which country?
9. The carol Silent Night was first sung in 1818. In which country?
10. Which royal made the Christmas tree popular in Britain in the 1840s?

Answers to round 2

1. Japan.
2. Norway.
3. Thirteen.
4. Italy.
5. Mexico.
6. Hawaiian.
7. Germany.
8. Turkey (Türkiye). The town was Myra.
9. Austria.
10. Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband.

Round 3: Christmas films and songs

1. In Home Alone, where is Kevin's family flying when they leave him behind?
2. What is the name of Will Ferrell's character in Elf?
3. Who played the Grinch in the 2000 film?
4. In which city is Miracle on 34th Street set?
5. Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
6. Not counting Marley, how many spirits visit Scrooge?
7. In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington is known as the king of what?
8. Who released All I Want for Christmas Is You in 1994?
9. Who wrote the song White Christmas?
10. In Love Actually, which country is Aurelia from?

Answers to round 3

1. Paris.
2. Buddy.
3. Jim Carrey.
4. New York.
5. Charles Dickens.
6. Three.
7. Pumpkins. He's the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town.
8. Mariah Carey.
9. Irving Berlin.
10. Portugal.

Round 4: Christmas food trivia

1. What was traditionally hidden in a Christmas pudding for luck?
2. Marzipan is made mostly from sugar and which nut?
3. Which fairy tale helped make gingerbread houses popular?
4. How many hours does the Sydney Fish Market's Christmas seafood marathon run for?
5. A candy cane is shaped like which shepherd's tool?
6. Eggnog is made with milk, sugar and what?
7. The crisp outside of a pavlova is made of what?
8. Mince pies are filled with mincemeat. What is mincemeat mostly made of today?
9. Bowen mangoes are better known by which variety name?
10. Which spice gives gingerbread its name?

Answers to round 4

1. A coin, often a sixpence or a threepence.
2. Almonds.
3. Hansel and Gretel.
4. 36 hours.
5. A crook.
6. Eggs.
7. Meringue: egg whites whipped with sugar.
8. Dried fruit and spices.
9. Kensington Pride.
10. Ginger.

Round 5: The season

1. In the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, how many reindeer pull the sleigh?
2. Rudolph first appeared in 1939 in a booklet given away by what kind of business?
3. What date is Boxing Day?
4. How many doors does a standard Advent calendar have?
5. The first Christmas card for sale was made in 1843. In which country?
6. Besides a toy and a joke, what do you usually find in a bonbon?
7. "Feliz Navidad" is Merry Christmas in which language?
8. Which of Santa's reindeer has a name from the word for thunder?
9. Where does Santa live, in most stories?
10. The red Christmas plant, the poinsettia, comes from which country?

Answers to round 5

1. Eight.
2. A department store (Montgomery Ward, in the United States).
3. 26 December.
4. 24.
5. England.
6. A paper crown.
7. Spanish.
8. Donner (Donder in later versions of the poem).
9. The North Pole.
10. Mexico.

Tiebreaker

Closest answer wins. In the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, how many gifts are given altogether, counting every repeat?

Tiebreaker answer

364. Add up each day's list from day one to day twelve.

Run it on phones and the office TV

Rather not mark answer sheets? Deck the Desks, our work Christmas pack, has an office Christmas quiz built in: six rounds, from carols and Christmas films to an Aussie summer Christmas and office life. The questions show on the office TV, everyone answers on their own phone, and the scores land on the big screen. Up to 20 phones, and bigger offices play in teams.

Launch Party: every game is free to host until 30 November 2026, Party Pack 01 and Deck the Desks included. Sign in free to host. Guests never need an account.

Warming up the room first? Try our Christmas icebreaker questions for work.

Updated 28 October 2026.