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Christmas Trivia & Quiz Games for Grown-Ups TRIVIA – Never was a holiday more suited to playing trivia games. If you are having a sit down dinner, roll up various trivia quizzes, and tie with ribbon to match your theme colors. Set the little bundles at each place setting. If you are serving food buffet style, put them in a decorative basket. We have provided a few ideas to build a trivia quiz around, or you can come up with other creative ideas. Think of the interests of your crowd before choosing a topic. Try to include trivia related to the topic with a broad range of difficulty. This will make it much more challenging, and your guests will leave the party a little wiser than they were when they arrived: 1. Sports – who holds what record in what sport, or match famous Sports figures with the correct sport. Ask a sports fanatic to help you pull this together! 2. Inventors and Explorers – Provide a list, and have guests try to match inventors and explorers with their invention or discovery. Much more difficult than you might think! 3. Music – Either have guests try to match Artists with Song Titles, match Song Titles with the year the song was a hit, or match Songs with the decade they were from. Spend 45 minutes at a music store with a pad of paper, looking at the backs of compilation and "best of" CD's, and you'll have enough music trivia to fill the whole year! 4. Movie stars/Movies – Provide a list, and have guests match as many actors/actresses with the films they starred in, or have them try to match movie titles with the year the movie was released. Another fun "Hollywood" trivia game is to see who can name the most films that have won an Academy Award for "Best Picture". 5. Make a list of the 5-10 most influential/important people of the year…many periodicals, such as Time™ magazine, will be featuring such articles between now and December 31st. Ask guests to decide what significant contribution each made in order to make the list. The prize goes to the person who has all 5-10 or closest to it! A great prize to award the winner of any of these trivia games would be a trivia game, such as Trivial Pursuit™, a subscription to a news periodical, or a coffee table book chronicling the past year.
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Elsie's
Christmas Party: Plan, Prepare and Host an Old-Fashioned Christmas
Party
All the best aspects of Charades, Pictionary, Wheel of Fortune or Scrabble and Jeapordy in one. For Christmas, you could throw some extra Christmas questions into a hat and a team has to correctly answer a Christmas question before they can begin the game and then answer one at the end to win the game. People of all types enjoy it--and even kids can participate. We think it's perfect for family parties--just family evenings or casual friends get-togethers--and even office parties!
Quick & Easy
Christmas Games
Revamp the old standards "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" into Pin the Nose on the Santa by using a Santa cardboard cutout and a red construction paper nose with double sided tape!
Or go back to your childhood and play musical chairs using your favorite Christmas tunes!
Cookie Exchange:
Have guests bring some of their favorite cookies (3-4 dozen is generally a good amount), and have a table handy for guests to put cookies on as they arrive.After everyone is present, give the guests paper plates and let them collect from each platter, until they have as many cookies to take home as they brought! On a diet? Try a Low-Carb Treat exchange instead!