Festive Reading Quiz

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  1. 4. In The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the White Witch has made it always ___ and never Christmas. (6)
  2. 5. Surname of the author who wrote Letters from Father Christmas. (7)
  3. 7. How many ghosts visit Scrooge in total? (4)
  4. 8. Where does Father Christmas go on holiday in the book by Raymond Briggs? (2 words, 3,5)
  5. 10. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Blue Carbuncle” begins with a Christmas _____ being dropped in the street. (5)
  6. 11. What is the name of the boy who builds the snowman in The Snowman? (5)
  7. 14. The protagonist of which novel sets out one Christmas on a long sea voyage?(2 words, 4,4)
  8. 15. "One can never have enough ____. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books." (5)
  9. 16. Scrooge's first name. (9)
  10. 17. The name of the village where all the elves live in Matt Haig's A Boy Called Christmas? (7)
  11. 20. "Well, in Whoville, they say - that the Grinch's small heart grew ____ sizes that day." (5)
  12. 22. Which beloved tale by O. Henry sees a husband and wife make heartfelt sacrifices to buy one another a gift at Christmas? The Gift of the ____. (4)
  13. 23. "Not a creature was stirring, not even a ____.” (5)
  14. 24. In Tom Fletcher's The Christmasaurus, the Christmasaurus wants to be a ____. (8)
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  1. 1. First literary appearance of Father Christmas was in Ben Jonson's 1616 play called ____, His Masque. (9)
  2. 2. What 1985 book was turned into an animated Christmas movie with the same title starring Tom Hanks? The ____ (2 words, 5,7)
  3. 3. When the Grinch steals Christmas, what is the first thing to go? (9)
  4. 6. Hoffman's Christmas Classic which is immortalised by Tchaikovsky's ballet. The ____ and the Mouse King. (10)
  5. 9. This story, by Hans Christian Andersen, has been performed in operas, ballets, and possibly even Disney's Frozen. The ____ (2 words, 4,5)
  6. 12. First time this famous quote was said, was Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. (2 words, 3,6)
  7. 13. Surname of the author who wrote Hercule Poirot’s Christmas. (8)
  8. 15. Surname of A Christmas Story's author. (8)
  9. 18. The novel Little Women opens with the line, "Christmas won't be Christmas without any ____." (8)
  10. 19. A Christmas ____ was written by Truman Capote. (6)
  11. 21. In which literary work, by the bard, does a man dressed as a woman fall in love with a woman dressed as a man at Christmas? (2 words, 7,5)