Christmas songs are so colourful.

Tell the truth: how many coloured sprinkles have you used up this season?

Fill in the colours.

1. Bing Crosby was dreaming of a White Christmas.
2. Elvis, on the other hand, was having a Blue Christmas without you.
3. The ancient holly bears a berry, as red as any blood. (Unless you're a Vulcan.)
4. Our wassail is brown, because it's Real Ale.
5. When writing to Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Nellie wanted a picture book: yellow, blue and red.
6. In The Lemon Drop Kid (1950), Bob Hope sang about silver bells.
7. Rudolph the Reindeer has a red nose. (He's been at the wassail.)
8. Here's one for German speakers: O Tannenbaum, wie grün sind deine Blätter. (Okay, if you don't speak German, what colour is mentioned in 'O Christmas Tree'? Green, naturally. Germans refuse to buy those silver tinsel horrors. Instead, they threaten to burn down the flat with real candles. After singing to the tree, of course.)
9. One magus sings, 'Born a king on Bethlehem's plain, gold I bring to crown him again.'
10. In 'Winter Wonderland', the bluebird is gone away. (He'll be back in time for Easter.)

You knew all that, right? See what kind of trivia you have in your head?

Merry Christmas!

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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