120+ holiday trivia questions (and answers) for work, parties, and kids

Looking for ready-to-use holiday trivia questions and answers? This list gives you 140 questions organized by crowd, difficulty, and occasion, so you can host a holiday game at work, school, home, or a party with little to no prep.

To use the list, pick one category, read the questions aloud, or copy them into a printable handout or online quiz. You can also mix easy, funny, movie, and hard questions to create a custom round for your group.

In this article, “holiday” means more than one season or celebration. You’ll find trivia questions about winter holidays, major cultural holidays, seasonal traditions, movies, food, and general holiday fun.

For a quick game, use 8 to 12 questions per round. Teams of two to five people usually work well. If there’s a tie, ask one final question and have teams write down the closest answer.

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Easy holiday trivia questions and answers

1. What holiday is celebrated on December 25?
🌟 Answer: Christmas

2. What color is commonly associated with Valentine’s Day?
🌟 Answer: Red

3. What do people traditionally carve for Halloween?
🌟 Answer: Pumpkins

4. What holiday is known for fireworks in the United States?
🌟 Answer: Independence Day

5. What bird is commonly served at Thanksgiving dinner?
🌟 Answer: Turkey

6. What is the first day of the year called?
🌟 Answer: New Year’s Day

7. What sweet treat is often given on Valentine’s Day?
🌟 Answer: Chocolate

8. What holiday is associated with egg hunts?
🌟 Answer: Easter

9. What plant is associated with kissing during Christmas?
🌟 Answer: Mistletoe

10. What do people usually say at midnight on New Year’s Eve?
🌟 Answer: Happy New Year

11. What is Santa Claus known for delivering?
🌟 Answer: Gifts

12. What holiday is celebrated with costumes and trick-or-treating?
🌟 Answer: Halloween

13. What do many people hang by the fireplace for Christmas?
🌟 Answer: Stockings

14. What holiday celebrates love and romance?
🌟 Answer: Valentine’s Day

15. What color is often linked with St. Patrick’s Day?
🌟 Answer: Green

16. What holiday meal is known for mashed potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry sauce?
🌟 Answer: Thanksgiving

17. What is the name of the red-nosed reindeer?
🌟 Answer: Rudolph

18. What holiday often includes a countdown to midnight?
🌟 Answer: New Year’s Eve

19. What do people light on a menorah during Hanukkah?
🌟 Answer: Candles

20. What do children often leave out for Santa?
🌟 Answer: Cookies and milk

Holiday trivia questions and answers for work

1. What type of party do many companies host in December?
🎁 Answer: A holiday party

2. What is a common office gift exchange game?
🎁 Answer: White elephant

3. What holiday activity involves decorating a small workplace tree?
🎁 Answer: Christmas tree decorating

4. What is a potluck?
🎁 Answer: A shared meal where everyone brings a dish

5. What item is often worn at an ugly sweater contest?
🎁 Answer: A holiday sweater

6. What does RSVP stand for?
🎁 Answer: Répondez s’il vous plaît

7. What drink is often served at winter holiday parties?
🎁 Answer: Hot chocolate

8. What is a Secret Santa?
🎁 Answer: A gift exchange where each person secretly gives a gift to someone else

9. What is a common prize for office trivia winners?
🎁 Answer: A gift card

10. What holiday decoration is often placed on office doors?
🎁 Answer: A wreath

11. What is the best way to keep office trivia inclusive?
🎁 Answer: Use a mix of general holiday questions

12. What type of questions work well for remote teams?
🎁 Answer: Multiple-choice questions

13. What tool can teams use to collect answers during virtual trivia?
🎁 Answer: An online form

14. What does “holiday break” usually refer to?
🎁 Answer: Time off around the holidays

15. What is one common workplace holiday tradition?
🎁 Answer: Exchanging cards or gifts

16. What should hosts avoid in work trivia?
🎁 Answer: Overly personal questions

17. What is a good team size for office trivia?
🎁 Answer: Two to five people

18. What holiday phrase means spreading kindness and joy?
🎁 Answer: Holiday spirit

19. What is a common end-of-year workplace activity?
🎁 Answer: A year-in-review meeting

20. What makes holiday trivia good for work events?
🎁 Answer: It is easy, social, and low-pressure

Holiday movie trivia questions and answers

1. What is the name of the main character in Elf?
🎬 Answer: Buddy

2. What holiday movie features Kevin McCallister?
🎬 Answer: Home Alone

3. In The Polar Express, what kind of vehicle takes children to the North Pole?
🎬 Answer: A train

4. What is the Grinch’s dog’s name?
🎬 Answer: Max

5. What holiday movie features the song “White Christmas”?
🎬 Answer: White Christmas

6. What actor plays Buddy in Elf?
🎬 Answer: Will Ferrell

7. What city does Kevin visit in Home Alone 2?
🎬 Answer: New York City

8. What is the name of the town in How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
🎬 Answer: Whoville

9. What object does Ralphie want in A Christmas Story?
🎬 Answer: A Red Ryder BB gun

10. What holiday is central to It’s a Wonderful Life?
🎬 Answer: Christmas

11. What animated movie features Jack Skellington?
🎬 Answer: The Nightmare Before Christmas

12. What is Jack Skellington known as?
🎬 Answer: The Pumpkin King

13. What movie features the character George Bailey?
🎬 Answer: It’s a Wonderful Life

14. What holiday movie stars Tim Allen as Santa?
🎬 Answer: The Santa Clause

15. In The Santa Clause, what makes Scott Calvin become Santa?
🎬 Answer: He puts on Santa’s suit

16. What holiday movie features a department store Santa named Kris Kringle?
🎬 Answer: Miracle on 34th Street

17. What is the name of the villain in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
🎬 Answer: Oogie Boogie

18. What holiday movie features the line “Keep the change, ya filthy animal”?
🎬 Answer: Home Alone

19. What Christmas movie includes the character Clark Griswold?
🎬 Answer: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

20. What does the bell symbolize in The Polar Express?
🎬 Answer: Belief in Santa

Holiday trivia questions and answers for kids

1. Who says “Ho, ho, ho”?
🍭 Answer: Santa Claus

2. What do reindeer help pull?
🍭 Answer: Santa’s sleigh

3. What do kids collect during trick-or-treating?
🍭 Answer: Candy

4. What shape is a snowman usually made from?
🍭 Answer: Snowballs

5. What do people put on top of a Christmas tree?
🍭 Answer: A star or angel

6. What animal is often connected with Easter?
🍭 Answer: A bunny

7. What do people send to friends and family during holidays?
🍭 Answer: Cards

8. What color is Rudolph’s nose?
🍭 Answer: Red

9. What do you call frozen water that falls from the sky?
🍭 Answer: Snow

10. What do people wear to Halloween parties?
🍭 Answer: Costumes

11. What treat is shaped like a person and made with ginger?
🍭 Answer: A gingerbread man

12. What holiday includes a big countdown?
🍭 Answer: New Year’s Eve

13. What do people wrap presents with?
🍭 Answer: Wrapping paper

14. What do you call a song sung during Christmas?
🍭 Answer: A carol

15. What do people blow out on a birthday cake?
🍭 Answer: Candles

16. What holiday often includes hearts?
🍭 Answer: Valentine’s Day

17. What do children hunt for on Easter?
🍭 Answer: Eggs

18. What do you call a house made of gingerbread?
🍭 Answer: A gingerbread house

19. What do people use to decorate a tree?
🍭 Answer: Ornaments

20. What is a present also called?
🍭 Answer: A gift

Holiday party trivia questions and answers

1. What is a common holiday party activity involving wrapped gifts?
🪩 Answer: Gift exchange

2. What is usually served in a mug at winter parties?
🪩 Answer: Hot chocolate

3. What dessert is often served during Thanksgiving?
🪩 Answer: Pumpkin pie

4. What is a common New Year’s Eve party accessory?
🪩 Answer: Party hat

5. What are small papers that make noise when pulled at parties called?
🪩 Answer: Party poppers

6. What is a toast?
🪩 Answer: A short speech before drinking

7. What holiday party theme asks guests to wear festive sweaters?
🪩 Answer: Ugly sweater party

8. What do people often hang as decoration during parties?
🪩 Answer: String lights

9. What is a common holiday party playlist filled with?
🪩 Answer: Holiday songs

10. What is a cookie swap?
🪩 Answer: A party where guests exchange homemade cookies

11. What does BYOB stand for?
🪩 Answer: Bring your own beverage

12. What is one easy way to start a holiday party?
🪩 Answer: Icebreaker questions

13. What do guests usually do at a photo booth?
🪩 Answer: Take fun pictures

14. What holiday party game involves guessing a song?
🪩 Answer: Holiday music trivia

15. What is a common party favor?
🪩 Answer: A small gift for guests

16. What food is often shaped like a cane during the holidays?
🪩 Answer: Candy cane

17. What is the final question in a trivia game often called?
🪩 Answer: A tie-breaker

18. What is a good way to keep party trivia moving?
🪩 Answer: Set a time limit

19. What holiday drink is made with eggs, milk, sugar, and spices?
🪩 Answer: Eggnog

20. What do people often shout when the clock strikes midnight?
🪩 Answer: Happy New Yea

Fun holiday trivia questions and answers

1. What holiday character says “Bah, humbug”?
✨ Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge

2. What holiday treat is shaped like a hook?
✨ Answer: Candy cane

3. What is the day after Thanksgiving often called?
✨ Answer: Black Friday

4. What is the name of the snowman in Frozen?
✨ Answer: Olaf

5. What holiday song includes “fa la la la la”?
✨ Answer: Deck the Halls

6. What fruit is traditionally hidden inside a Christmas stocking?
✨ Answer: An orange

7. What holiday is associated with leprechauns?
✨ Answer: St. Patrick’s Day

8. What is the name of the Times Square New Year’s Eve tradition?
✨ Answer: The ball drop

9. What is the name of the fairy in The Nutcracker?
✨ Answer: The Sugar Plum Fairy

10. What do people make by lying in snow and moving their arms and legs?
✨ Answer: A snow angel

11. What holiday is known for pranks in many countries?
✨ Answer: April Fools’ Day

12. What holiday decoration can be real or artificial?
✨ Answer: A Christmas tree

13. What is a common Valentine’s Day flower?
✨ Answer: Rose

14. What holiday is known for gratitude?
✨ Answer: Thanksgiving

15. What do people often build with snow?
✨ Answer: A snowman

16. What holiday is often celebrated with a barbecue in the U.S.?
✨ Answer: Independence Day

17. What is the name of Santa’s workshop location?
✨ Answer: The North Pole

18. What is a popular holiday flavor made with cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg?
✨ Answer: Gingerbread

19. What holiday plant has red and green leaves?
✨ Answer: Poinsettia

20. What do people often write before the new year begins?
✨ Answer: New Year’s resolutions

Hard holiday trivia questions and answers

1. What ancient Roman festival influenced some winter holiday traditions?
🎯 Answer: Saturnalia

2. What does Hanukkah commemorate?
🎯 Answer: The rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem

3. How many nights does Hanukkah last?
🎯 Answer: Eight

4. What are the seven principles of Kwanzaa called?
🎯 Answer: Nguzo Saba

5. What language does the word “Kwanzaa” come from?
🎯 Answer: Swahili

6. What country is often credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition?
🎯 Answer: Germany

7. What is the name of the day after Christmas in the U.K. and some Commonwealth countries?
🎯 Answer: Boxing Day

8. What is the traditional Jewish game played with a spinning top during Hanukkah?
🎯 Answer: Dreidel

9. What is the name of the candle used to light the other candles on a menorah?
🎯 Answer: Shamash

10. What Christian season begins four Sundays before Christmas?
🎯 Answer: Advent

11. What fruit is associated with the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah?
🎯 Answer: Apple

12. What is commonly dipped in honey for Rosh Hashanah?
🎯 Answer: Apples

13. What holiday marks the end of Ramadan?
🎯 Answer: Eid al-Fitr

14. What holiday is known as the Festival of Lights in Hindu tradition?
🎯 Answer: Diwali

15. What Mexican holiday honors deceased loved ones?
🎯 Answer: Día de los Muertos

16. What is the main color of the candles used during Kwanzaa?
🎯 Answer: Red, black, and green

17. What country celebrates Bastille Day on July 14?
🎯 Answer: France

18. What holiday celebrates the arrival of spring in Persian culture?
🎯 Answer: Nowruz

19. What is the traditional greeting for Rosh Hashanah?
🎯 Answer: Shana Tova

20. What is the name of the final day of Kwanzaa?
🎯 Answer: Imani

10 Tips for hosting a holiday trivia game in person or virtually

A good trivia game doesn’t need to be complicated. The key is choosing questions that fit your group, setting simple rules, and keeping the pace lively.

1. For a 15-minute game, use one round of 8 to 10 questions.
2. For a 30-minute game, use two or three rounds with 10 questions each.
3. For a 60-minute event, run four to six rounds and add a tie-breaker.
4. Let people play individually for small groups, in pairs for classrooms, or in teams for office parties.
5. Keep scoring simple: one point per correct answer, with bonus points for tie-breakers.
6. Mix categories so the game feels fair for different ages, cultures, and interests.
7. Use multiple choice for harder rounds so everyone can stay engaged.
8. Avoid questions that are too personal, religiously specific, or based on inside jokes.
9. For virtual trivia, ask players to submit answers in the chat, through a form, or by team captain.
10. Add a time limit for each question to keep the game moving.

Create an interactive holiday trivia quiz with Jotform

A static list of holiday trivia questions is great for planning, but an interactive quiz makes the game easier to share, score, and reuse. With Jotform, you can turn these questions into a polished holiday trivia quiz without coding.

You can build your quiz with multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, fill-in-the-blank fields, answer feedback, and automatic scoring. That makes it easy to use the same quiz for an office party, classroom activity, family event, or community gathering.

If you want a faster starting point, try Jotform’s holiday trivia quiz template. You can customize the questions, add your own branding, embed the quiz on a website, or share it with a link. Jotform also helps you collect responses and organize submissions, so you don’t have to track answers manually.

You can also explore Jotform’s AI Trivia Generator if you want to create new rounds for different holidays, age groups, or difficulty levels.

Conclusion: Pick a round, start the game, and reuse it next year

Holiday trivia is an easy way to bring people together, whether you’re planning a work event, classroom game, family night, or party. With 140 categorized questions and answers, you can quickly choose the round that fits your crowd.

Copy a round into your agenda and host tonight, or turn the questions into a shareable quiz with Jotform so you can reuse it for every holiday event.