1 Rudolph the reindeer, 2 1842, 3 The wren, 4 The ivy, 5 York Minster, 6 Bon Bons, 7 Nazareth, 8 False, 9 St Luke’s, 10 Roman Italy

11 Christmas, 12 Ebenezer Scrooge’s partner, 13 Silent Night, 14 St. Nicholas’s Day, 15 Her cousin Elizabeth, 16 For the 12 days of Christmas, 17 Candlemas, 18 Judas Iscariot, 19 The motto, 20 Tom Smith

21 Norway, 22 Persia (Iran), 23 King Wenceslas, 24 A pear tree, 25 The Angel Gabriel, 26 The Wise Men from the East, 27 December 26 (Boxing Day), 28 Joseph of Arimathaea, 29 December 21, 30 It’s a bell in the church tower in Dewsbury, Yorkshire

31 Dewsbury in Yorkshire, 32 Sir Isaac Newton, 33 Sprigs from the Glastonbury Thorn, 34 Gustav Holst, 35 An old name for a carol singer, 36 The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols held at King’s College, Cambridge, 37 The Sunday nearest to January 5, 38 They are all dates on which Christmas Day was celebrated before December 25 was finally decided upon, 39 A large sausage of mixed minced meats and spices made to be eaten on Christmas Day morning, 40 January 7

41 The first pantomime was produced by Mr Rich, licensee of the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, 42 King William III, 43 St Francis of Assisi, 44 Another name for an early cracker, 45 St Thomas à Becket, 46 In Bethlehem, 47 Germany, 48 St Boniface, an English monk, 49 Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria, 50 The Coca Cola Company in the course of an advertising campaign.