Trollope Society Christmas Quiz 2025

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1. In A Christmas Carol, what business is Scrooge in partnership with Jacob Marley?

3. In The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, who wrote the original story on which the ballet is based?

4. Which Victorian writer published The Chimes, a Christmas book about social justice?

6. Which Victorian novelist wrote the Christmas story Christmas Storms and Sunshine?

7. In The Snowman by Raymond Briggs, what item allows the boy and the snowman to fly?

10. Which novel by Barbara Pym opens with a Christmas church bazaar?

11. In which year was the first commercial Christmas card sent in Britain?

12. Which British monarch delivered the first royal Christmas broadcast?

13. From which country did the tradition of the Christmas tree come to Britain?

14. What was traditionally placed inside a Christmas pudding for good luck?

15. What is celebrated on 26 December in the UK?

16. Which plant is traditionally kissed under at Christmas?

17. Which Victorian writer helped revive and popularise Christmas as a family festival in Britain?

18. What was traditionally burned in the hearth on Christmas Eve in parts of Europe?

19. In which country is it traditional to eat KFC for Christmas dinner?

20. What figure traditionally delivers presents in the Netherlands?

21. In what year was Anthony Trollope born?

22. Who said 'I wish Mr Trollope would continue writing Framley Parsonage forever?

23. Which Trollope novel tells the story of a clergyman accused of stealing a cheque, and the strain this places on his family and community?

24. Which of the following characters appear in The Warden?

25. To which country did Trollope's son Frederick emigrate?

26. In 1873 Trollope was invited to sit on a Royal Commission on which subject?

27. What daily writing habit did Trollope famously describe in his Autobiography?

28. Which of the following novels belong to the Palliser series?

29. Which nine novels does Lady Glencora appear in?

30. What is the order of publication of the Barsetshire novels?

31. From which novel is the quote 'He had a pride in being a poor man of a high family; he had a pride in repudiating the very family of which he was proud; and he had a special pride in keeping his pride silently to himself'.

32. From which novel is the quote 'Wise people, when they are in the wrong, always put themselves right by finding fault with the people against whom they have sinned.'

33. From which novel is the quote 'At this time, in the midst of all his misery, it never occurred to him to inquire of himself whether it might be possible that his old friends were right, and that he himself was wrong'.

34. From which novel is the quote 'If dishonesty can live in a gorgeous palace with pictures on all its walls, and gems in all its cupboards, with marble and ivory in all its corners, and can give Apician dinners, and get into Parliament, and deal in millions, then dishonesty is not disgraceful, and the man dishonest after such a fashion is not a low scoundrel'.

35. From which novel is the quote 'Rumour, when she has contrived to sound the first note on her trumpet, soon makes a loud peal audible enough.'