Each year since 2006 I’ve made a Christmas Quiz. Each year’s quiz has a theme and the style typically alternates between cryptic clues and more number based clues. Each year sees a fierce contest for the honour and glory that goes to the winning team.
The quiz archive can be found below.
More quizzing
For those wanting more quiz action - or have friends in need of quizzes - I’ve also published the first twelve quizzes in a book, The Twelve Quizzes of Christmas. Buy the book here.
A friend, Chris Bush, has made an App with a number of the quizzes in – complete with hints and achievements. Download the QuizTime! Cryptic Challenge App free.
Quiz Archive
Christmas Quiz XX
201KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Children
Winner: Morris Craven Reunion
DownloadChristmas Quiz XIX
112KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: MPs
Winner: The Craven Family
DownloadChristmas Quiz XVIII
180KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Letters and Numbers
Winners: Nick Wood; Alex Morris, Alex Craven and Friends
DownloadChristmas Quiz XVII
184KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Science (Cryptic)
Winner: Alex Morris, Alex Craven and Friends
DownloadChristmas Quiz XVI
212KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: History
Winners: Friends of Julia; Tom Booth and Friends
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Christmas Quiz XV
161KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: People (Cryptic)
Winner: Alex Morris, Alex Craven and Friends
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Christmas Quiz XIV
175KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Sequences
Winner: Alex Morris, Alex Craven and Friends
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Christmas Quiz XIII
118KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Countries and Regions (Cryptic)
Winners: Julia and Friends; Alex Morris, Alex Craven and Friends
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Christmas Quiz XII
368KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Letters and Numbers
Winner: Julia, Iain G and Gareth
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Christmas Quiz XI
358KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Animals (Cryptic)
Winner: Alex Morris, Alex Craven and Friends
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Christmas Quiz X
339KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Dates
Winner: Martin and Ruth
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Christmas Quiz IX
247KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Geography (Cryptic)
Winner: Julia and her 6 more geographical friends Owen, Nick, Blaise, Rosie, Graham and Janet
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Christmas Quiz VII
352KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Surnames of MPs (Cryptic)
Winner: Owen Jones and Janice Chan
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Christmas Quiz VI
435KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Sequences
Winner: Ben and Jo Pellereau
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Christmas Quiz V
173KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Book Titles (Cryptic)
Winner: Graham Stratton and Laura Hill
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Christmas Quiz IV
164KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Letters and Numbers
Winner: Steve Burgess and Poppy Stagg
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Christmas Quiz III
155KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: Cities (Cryptic)
Winners: Owen Jones; Julia Goedecke and the Emmanuelite Mathematicians
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Christmas Quiz II
115KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: 7 D in a W
Winner: Ed Hutchinson
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Christmas Quiz I
117KB ∙ PDF file
Theme: London Underground (Cryptic)
Winner: Owen Jones
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