to ask for your Christmas quiz ideas?

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I do a family quiz on Christmas day and it gets taken very seriously

There'll be about 11 of us there, aged 20 - 85. I try and do quiz rounds that everyone has at least a chance of getting right. My dad used to do rounds like 'top selling singles of the 70s' and questions such as 'who who the Grand National in 1983?' which I can't stand because it gives an advantage to those who were actually born and able to remember, so it was a great day when he was finally overturned and I became quiz master.

So anyway, I'm doing this year's quiz and I'm stuck for round ideas. I always do the first round about the previous year, and I've got a 'name that connection round'. What else can I do? Over the years I've had a Christmas trivia round, missing word rounds, song lyrics rounds, but I don't want to repeat myself. Anyone got any good ideas?

Lines from famous films? Extra points for main actor/actress?
Can have vast range of films!!

Dingbats

Picture round where pictures make up a word, Christmas related or 2017 related?

Christmas carols or Christmas pop songs? Can do names of artists, lyrics or even covers as the classic pop ones are covered so often but often obscure so everyone on the back foot :)

Food - ingredients with odd names, traditional xmas meals in different countries

Blue Planet - DC been covering this at school and constantly coming up with under the water facts - huge topic!

Sports - but to make it more challenging, find names of moves/equipment from popular and obscure sports and ask in a multiple choice way? Think there must be some classics in curling, rock climbing, fencing, green bowls.

Can't think of any more....can see how hard it is!!

What about a Christmas song 'intros' round? You could play the intros on your phone from YouTube?

Ooh, I’m doing a family quiz too for similar age range.
Celebrity Guess Who round with baby/school photos of famous people (there are loads of them on Pinterest)
Guess The Song from the intros is always good, make a playlist with a mix of music from 1950s through to 2017.

Maybe a Christmas General Knowledge round? (Who wrote White Christmas, which country sends the big Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square each year, what was the Christmas No 1 last year? Etc)

I do something similar for work, rounds include

Christmas song/carol lyrics
Headlines/news from the year
Who's that picture round
Christmas trivia
Name the disney character/film (surprising how well adults enjoy this one!)
Food and drink

My favourite quiz rounds are the numbers ones.

So it's like:

T 12 D o C (the 12 days of Christmas)

S W a t 7 D (Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs)

You could probably get it all Christmas themed too.

Do you have many photos of family houses? Do a picture round, who's front door is this, who's garden is this tree in, who's baby blanket is this, name the pet, guess the year of this Christmas photo etc. So go through your photos and look in the background for items you can crop out etc and use them as the clue.

Ooo some great ideas! Thank you. Definitely going to do a Disney round and LilyDisney's idea!

Filling in the missing word from Christmas carols/songs, mix of well known and more obscure.

Picture round with naming the actor from Christmas films.

Identifying which pantomimes characters appear in e.g. Buttons is from X?

Herbs and spices
Put different herbs and spices in individual pots/cups and everyone has to guess what they are
Do the obvious ones like basil and parsley but you can also put more obscure ones in. Grind them up so things like Star Anise aren't as obvious

A map of the UK/Europe/the tube and they have to guess the cities/countries/stops

Dance moves
Stickmen pics doing a dance routine and they have to guess the song
Or, you do the routine and they have to guess the song - YMCA, Gangnam Style, Stayin' Alive, Macarena, Saturday night etc etc

Translate French words into English.

I. E. Père Noël.
Bonne homme de neige

Etc etc

Brief intro to a Christmas number one single. One point for getting the artist, one point for guessing the year.
Give each person a shot glass of different Wkd (I mean the drink Wicked, but I think it has an abbreviation!) flavours which they have to guess. Could do similar with crisps and jelly beans. Obviously, the more obscure the flavour, the better!
Picture round to identify different countries' flags.
Picture round where you have photos of a very small part of different chocolate bars, or company logos, which have to be identified.

Christmas and/or family general knowledge - you can adapt this for true or false? questions.
So a question might be -
"What year did (insert funny family thing that happened) happen?"
or
"Grandma used to be a seamstress - true or false" (obviously the questions can't relate to the family members there for the quiz!)
'Famous' family quotes might work if you have a few examples of daft things family have said that were funny and now family legend, give the quote and ask who said it.

Google has loads and loads of downloadable pub quizzes that you can get ideas from.

Christmas based anagrams or cryptic clues to Christmas things (food, drink etc)

Ohhh I love stuff like this. I did one last year which was all based on current events for each month, the picture round was 'name the dead celeb' (a little morbid but 2016 was a bad year for celebs) and then my absolute fave, instead of a dingbats round I did famous politicians signatures.

I am doing something based on the TV programmes Pointless and Tenable and who Dares wins. Ages range from 11 to 73 so finding a good mix of lists and everyone takes it in turns to give an answer from the list.

Best quiz round I’ve ever hAd was guess the price list of ingredients like flour milk squash ham and they have to guess how much it cost

We used to do picture quizzes based on 1) TV personalities and people in the news (quite easy to include some which will be known by the younger generation and not the older ones) 2) magazine and poster adverts - cut out the name of the product wherever it appears. It's one thing recognising what type of product is being advertised, quite another to remember which brand.

TV programme theme tunes

Chuck in a couple of all rounders like Bake Off, SCD and Champions League football plus a teen programme, a soap, kids tv etc

I think it's more fun to have things that you can puzzle over and try and work out rather than something that you either know or you don't so I like for instance @LilyDisney 's suggestion of 12 D o C (the 12 days of Christmas) etc.

Similarly, another one we've liked in the past is cryptic clues to towns e.g. A Dirty Place To Swim Blackpool

I think these sort of questions avoid the situation when you haven't got a clue what the answer is as you can try to work it out.

My friend's husband does a quiz every new year which has ridiculous questions which you don't know the answer to but whichever team gets the closest gets the point. So you can be miles out but if you are just a bit nearer than the other team you still get it. e.g. how many gallons of paint does it take to paint the Eiffel Tower? How far can a kangaroo jump in one jump? How long does it take to hardboil an ostrich egg? Great fun because all the team members debate the answer. He often repeats the questions from one year to another but because a little, (ok then, a lot) of booze has been sampled, we can never remember the answers.

I must go and look up how long it takes to boil an ostrich egg.

I like the cryptic ones and anagram ones too.

Name That Tune is fun, especially if you play a bit in the middle of the song rather than the beginning!

Also guessing emblems and logos can be fun.

I did a quiz once where the connections answers or questions were all the names listed in the song Mambo number 5 ( which was the connection)
Went down well!

Love love love the quiz on the family idea but might be hard without asking said members

Ha Ha LilyDisney beat me to it, I was going to suggest that one!

Can you do something in the style of Only Connect (but simpler!). I.e. groups of 4 things and you have to get the connection.