quiz
Questions about the festival
Do you know about Christmas? Prove it – in our Christmas quiz!
In our Christmas quiz you can show how well you know about the “Festival of Love”. But be warned, there are a few tricky questions too.
“I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” is the name of a song by the British glam rock band Wizzard from 1973. This wish that Christmas could be every day is certainly not shared by everyone, but many people look forward to it every year Christmas time – especially children. At the “Festival of Love” you should mainly be enthusiastic about the gifts, Santa Claus or the Christ Child and the sweet delicacies. Others might associate Christmas with the smell of roasted almonds, with visits to the Christmas market, an Advent wreath, family, a Christmas tree and lots of glittering lights.
But why do we celebrate Christmas anyway? Quite a few in Germany have no answer to this question. According to a – admittedly somewhat outdated – survey by the star From 2006, every tenth German citizen does not know why Christmas is celebrated at all. And the number of unsuspecting people is likely to have grown since then, at least if you take the number of people leaving the church and the declining proportion of church members in relation to the total population as a yardstick. According to a survey by the Institute for Demoskopie Allensbach on behalf of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, 28 percent of the population currently describe themselves as members of the Protestant Church, 25 percent as Catholics – in 1995 it was 37 and 36 percent respectively. And because the downward trend has accelerated in recent years, the institute states: “It could be that in Germany 2021 will be the last Christmas celebrations with a majority of the population belonging to one of the two large churches.”
Now the question of the occasion for Christmas is actually a rather simple one. Even fewer people in this country are likely to know about Santa Claus, the wise men from the Orient or even trickier questions about the festive season. You can find out whether you are one of them or are smarter than the others in the quiz – and maybe learn something in the process. Have fun and: Merry Christmas!