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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Matthew Sherman
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 6:58am ET 12/31/25
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
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I don’t think it’s too controversial to say that the most famous Christmas baby was born approximately 2,025 years ago.

Ever since then, it’s been known as being a pretty unlucky birthday as you have to share it with the individual The Guardian calls the most significant historical figure ever!



So let’s bring a little holiday cheer to these folks who count December 25 as a notable day for more than one reason!

SCIENCE & TECH Q1. Gravity Geniuses: While digging into an apple pie dessert, a fun fact to dish out to your guests is that Christmas Day of 1643 was the birthdate of what apple-bonked theory of gravitation scientist?



MISCELLANEOUS Q2. Christmas Carols: Christmas baby Annie Lennox released an album of Christmas songs in 2010. “A Christmas Cornucopia” includes “The First Noel,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” and what carol whose original German title is “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht”?



MISCELLANEOUS Q3. Jimmy's Jams: With a very different vibe than Annie Lennox’s album, Christmas baby Jimmy Buffett’s 1996 LP “Christmas Island” has more upbeat tunes like “Run Rudolph Run,” “Mele Kalikimaka,” and what classic that begins, “Dashing through the snow…”?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q4. Basilica Babies: On Christmas Day 1717, while Clement XI was delivering his “Urbi et Orbi” address at St. Peter’s Basilica, a child named Giannangelo Braschi was born to a noble family. Little Giannangelo would grow up to follow in Clem’s footsteps, taking the name Pius VI when he was elected to what position that keeps pretty busy on Christmas?



SPORTS & GAMES Q5. Hot Hoopers: Born in 1988, NBA player Eric Gordon unfortunately has to work on his birthday some years. In 2023, his Suns lost their Christmas home game in what hot city that's also aptly home to the Mercury?



POP CULTURE Q6. HBO Hits: “Invasion of the Christmas Puddings” and “The Battle for Christmas” are kids’ books by Jeremy Strong. That author is not related to actor Jeremy Strong, who was born on Christmas 1978. That Jeremy Strong is probably best known for playing Kendall Roy, the “eldest boy,” on what HBO show that won the Best Drama Series Emmy for three of its four seasons?



POP CULTURE Q7. Replacing Redfoo: After falling short with Bill Engvall, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Waltrip, Redfoo, Hayes Grier, and Rick Perry, Emma Slater was finally able to give herself a Mirrorball trophy as a Christmas/birthday present when she and Rashad Jennings won what rug cutting competition in 2017?



POP CULTURE Q8. Terrifying TV: Art Carney played Santa Claus on three different occasions. The first time was on “The Night of the Meek,” a 1960 episode of what anthology TV series, created by Christmas baby Rod Serling, that usually dealt with spookier subjects like gremlins on airplane wings?



POP CULTURE Q9. Christmas in Casablanca : Here’s looking at you, Michael Curtiz: Born on Christmas Eve, he directed the 1954 musical “White Christmas” and the 1955 comedy “We’re No Angels,” which is about three convicts who escape prison right before Christmas. One convict is played by what Christmas-born actor who also starred in Curtiz’s “Casablanca”?



MISCELLANEOUS Q10. American Autos: If Santa drove American as opposed to Arctic, he’d have a few options. The top five American car brands named after founders are:

1) Henry Ford, born July 30
3) David Buick, born September 17
4) Horace and John Dodge, born May 17 and October 25, respectively
5) Walter Chrysler, born April 2

What’s the last name of Christmas baby Louis who comes in at #2?



TIEBREAKER Notable Nurses: Clara Barton embodied the Christmas spirit, earning the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield” for her compassion shown to soldiers during the Civil War, and later founding the American Red Cross. Barton was born on Christmas Day of what year?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 12/31/25