18/12/2025
NORTH SHEFFIELD CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2025
1. What date is traditionally known as Twelfth Night, marking the end of the Christmas season?
2. Which famous Christmas ballet features the Sugar Plum Fairy?
3. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, what is the name of Scrooge’s long-suffering clerk?
4. Which North Sheffield woodland is home to the annual Steel City Downhill Race and is a popular area for family winter walks: Wharncliffe Woods or Greno Woods?
5. What is the name of the annual 10k race in Loxley Valley that many local residents use to burn off the Christmas calories?
6. Which large reservoir below Low Bradfield is a popular winter walking spot when frozen edges appear?
7. In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, how many drummers are drumming?
8. The Stocksbridge Bypass is famous locally for which type of festive-season tale?
9. Which Sheffield-born actor played Sharpe in the self-titled Sharpe TV series?
10. Oughtibridge has a Christmas tradition where a large decorated tree appears each year near which landmark: the C**k Inn, the park, or the old paper mill site?
11. What is the name of the legendary football club that plays its home games at Hillsborough?
12. According to folklore, which creature is said to roam the area around Pea Royd Lane in winter: a ghostly monk, a spectral horse, or a headless miner?
13. What is the best-selling Christmas single of all time in the UK?
14. The Fox Valley retail park sits on the former site of which well-known industrial works?
15. Which traditional Christmas plant has white berries and is often hung above doorways?
16. What Christmas food item is traditionally hidden inside a Christmas pudding?
17. In Home Alone, where are the McCallister family flying to for Christmas when they leave Kevin behind?