Carol Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A concert program describes a carol based on the Ukrainian melody “Shchedryk,” featuring a rapidly repeated four-note pattern and a bell-centered English text. Which title belongs on the program?
Jingle Bells
Carol of the Bells
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Silver Bells
2. A choir sings a recurring promise of “tidings of comfort and joy.” Which carol are they performing?
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Good Christian Men, Rejoice
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Angels from the Realms of Glory
3. A soloist sings of “a thrill of hope” that causes a weary world to rejoice. Which carol is being performed?
O Holy Night
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
O Little Town of Bethlehem
4. You hear a choir extend the Latin refrain “Gloria in excelsis Deo” over several notes. Which carol is it?
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Angels We Have Heard on High
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
5. Which carol invites the “faithful, joyful and triumphant” to come to Bethlehem?
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Go Tell It on the Mountain
6. Which carol describes snow lying “deep and crisp and even” as a king looks out on a winter feast day?
In the Bleak Midwinter
See, amid the Winter’s Snow
The Boar’s Head Carol
Good King Wenceslas
7. A carol opens with a frozen landscape where the earth is hard as iron and water resembles stone. Which carol is it?
See, amid the Winter’s Snow
Good King Wenceslas
O Little Town of Bethlehem
In the Bleak Midwinter
8. Which carol calls on both heaven and nature to sing?
Joy to the World
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Good Christian Men, Rejoice
All Things Bright and Beautiful
9. A song adds a new gift in every verse, then repeats the earlier gifts in reverse order. Which song uses this cumulative structure?
The Twelve Days of Christmas
The Holly and the Ivy
Deck the Halls
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
10. A group of singers asks for figgy pudding and insists it will not leave until it gets some. Which song are they singing?
Here We Come A-wassailing
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Deck the Halls
I Saw Three Ships
11. A Christmas service begins with a solo verse about a lowly cattle shed standing in King David’s city. Which carol fits that description?
Away in a Manger
Once in Royal David’s City
See Him Lying on a Bed of Straw
O Little Town of Bethlehem
12. In which traditional carol are two evergreen plants used symbolically throughout the song?
The Cherry Tree Carol
Deck the Halls
The Holly and the Ivy
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
13. Travelers follow a star while singing that they are “westward leading, still proceeding.” Which carol is this?
I Saw Three Ships
The First Noel
As with Gladness Men of Old
We Three Kings
14. Which carol contains the line “Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child”?
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Silent Night
Away in a Manger
What Child Is This?
15. Which title completes the opening invitation “Hark! The herald angels sing”?
Angels from the Realms of Glory
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Angels We Have Heard on High
16. Which carol repeatedly ends its refrain by declaring that the King of Israel has been born?
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Once in Royal David’s City
The First Noel