-1. Who was the Roman emperor when Christ was born?
2. Mary and Joseph journeyed from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be enrolled in the imperial census. How many miles is that?
-3. What family tradition did President Franklin Roosevelt insist on performing every Christmas Eve?
-4. In Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" what identical gift was bestowed on the bootlegger, the bus driver, the knife grinder, two Baptist missionaries in Borneo and the president of the United States?
-5. What was True Love's gift on the second day of Christmas?
-6. What did Harry Potter get for Christmas in his first semester at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
-7. Did Norman Rockwell ever paint Grandma Moses?
-8. Which newspaper assured a reader: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus?"
-9. Why do we kiss under the mistletoe?
10. Who started the American tradition of poinsettia at Christmas?
-11. Thanksgiving has traditionally been the start of the Christmas season in the U.S. Which U.S. President moved Thanksgiving back a week to extend the holiday shopping season?
-12. In what Broadway musical was the song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" introduced?
-13. What legendary actor narrated the TV special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
-14. What do the songs "Jingle Bells", "Winter Wonderland", and "Sleighride" have in common?
-15. Where is Christmas Island?
-16. When and where did the Salvation Army Christmas collection kettle originate?

13. Boris Karloff

Love that version. I know it word for word.

5. two turtle doves

(and a partridge in a pear tree)

5. two turtle doves

15. It’s down here in the Indian Ocean

6. An invisibility cloak

1. Augustus Caesar

14 - horse-drawn sleighs

15 ... it's also an Australian territory

All good answers! OB, your answer stretched it a bit so I'll leave that one open for my answer.

12. Meet Me In St. Louis .. I think ..

(Because looking at the films showing over the holidays, that film and that song were both mentioned 😑)

4. Fruitcake

Yes to both! Judy Garland sang it.

9 - It is supposed to bring you love and fertility

3. He read "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Both correct! FDR exuberantly read out all of the parts.

11. Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. a NY newspaper that doesn't exist anymore, maybe the Sun

soot, yes. It was a a move to help out Depression-strained retailers.

LadyK, The New York Sun is correct. A famous editorial on Sept. 21, 1897, by Francis P. Church answered a letter by 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon

14. They are not Christmas songs.

And yet they feel like they are.

7. Given the odds, I guess ‘no’

7. Yes he did. In the painting "Christmas Homecoming". She is right next to the little girl in the red dress on the left of the painting.

And they are certainly regularly heard every Christmas here in the UK !! 🧑🏼‍🎄

You bravely put your hand up, flotsam, but jboliver is correct - Rockwell depicted Grandma Moses among the friends and family greeting a boy returning from college in "Christmas Homecoming," a 1948 Saturday Evening Post cover.

Mad