# Christmas Quiz Help Needed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968 "2004-12-21T14:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/1 "2004-12-21T14:06:44Z")
Please help me answer these Q’s. It’s a quiz at work. A George Foreman grill is at steak (did you see what I did there?) 1)Who sang Jingle Bell Rock? 2)What is Frosty the Snowman’s surname? 3)Why is Santa’s coat red and white? 4)What is Santa’s head elf called? 1. In America when is Summer Christmas? 6)When is Christmas day? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/2 "2004-12-21T14:46:14Z")
1. Because each year he skins the Easter Bunny for it’s lovely white fur and neglects to wash the blood out before sewing it together? 2. Heywood Jablohmie ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/3 "2004-12-21T14:57:14Z")
1. Bobby Helms ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/4 "2004-12-21T14:59:53Z")
1. Bernard. Hey, **two** Christmas movies about Santa Claus can’t be wrong…can they? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/5 "2004-12-21T15:03:21Z")
Well there are tons of versions of Jingle Bell Rock. Do you mean the original? Santa’ coat is always red and white. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/6 "2004-12-21T15:07:24Z")
Santa’s coat is red because his hat is. His hat is because he’s a bishop. The most famous version of “Jingle Bell Rock” should be googleable - the version I hear most is sung by a woman. ---
**Author:** ![AsecretK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@AsecretK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AsecretK)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/7 "2004-12-21T15:24:58Z")
1. Why is Father Christmas portrayed as wearing red and white? ANSWER: The red coat is ‘new’. Most pictures of Father Christmas prior to around 1880 showed him wearing a green coat. The red and white outfit was just one of the ‘looks’ post-1880 and only became synonymous with Father Christmas after Coca Cola launched an advertising campaign during the 1930s portraying Santa drinking a bottle of coke, dressed in his red, fur-lined coat. Sales of Coca Cola were traditionally low during the winter months and this ad campaign not only boosted sales due to the ad’s appeal to kids but also Father Christmas’ red and white outfit became the accepted standard outfit. What we consider to be Santa’s ‘traditional’ outfit is, in fact, Coca Cola endorsed! From [here](http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/features/christmas_quiz_answers.html) ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/8 "2004-12-21T15:28:55Z")
> [@smam](#): > > 2)What is Frosty the Snowman’s surname? um…Snowman? ---
**Author:** ![AsecretK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@AsecretK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AsecretK)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/9 "2004-12-21T15:30:13Z")
1. and also this from [here](http://people.howstuffworks.com/christmas19.htm) It is amazing but true that the common, popular view of Santa that we all have today, along with all the crazy things around Santa like the sleigh, the reindeer and the chimney, all came largely from two publishing events that occurred in the 1800s and one advertising campaign in this century. Clement Moore wrote “The Night Before Christmas” in 1822 for his family. It was picked up by a newspaper, then reprinted in magazines and it spread like wildfire. Moore admitted authorship in 1838. If you read the poem you will find that he names the reindeer, invents the sleigh, comes up with the chimney and the bag of toys, etc. Nearly everyone in America has been able to recognize or recite this poem since the 1830s. Then, between 1863 and 1886, Harper’s Weekly (a popular magazine of the time) ran a series of engravings by Thomas Nast. From these images come the concepts of Santa’s workshop, Santa reading letters, Santa checking his list and so on. Coca-Cola also played a role in the Santa image by running a set of paintings by Haddon Sundblom in its ads between 1931 to 1964. The red and white suit came, actually, from the original Saint Nicholas. Those colors were the colors of the traditional bishop’s robes. So, I guess it can be from Coca Cola or the bishops robes. I guess it will be a toss up from whomever created the questions. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/10 "2004-12-21T15:44:22Z")
> [@smam](#): > > 1. In America when is Summer Christmas? > > 6)When is Christmas day? #5-From this [site](http://www.123greetings.com/events/christmas/summer_christmas/), my impression is that summer christmas is DEC 25th… we just send our cards to Australia. I ain’t that bright though. #6- Maybe after Christmas Eve? (See caveat above) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/11 "2004-12-21T22:14:08Z")
> [@](#): > > 4)What is Santa’s head elf called? I dunno, but he doesn’t have to bend over to do it. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-quiz-help-needed/280968/12 "2004-12-22T02:57:09Z")
1. I believe the most common version is Brenda Lee. 2)For some reason I’m wanting to say it’s Brown. I don’t know why I think that, it just sounds right to me. 1. Probably referring to “Christmas in July” sales, would be my guess. 2. Christmas Day is December 25, according to every calender I’ve ever owned.