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All the Christmas No. 1s From 1952 to 2022.




Al Martino was the first person to reach Christmas number one, in 1952

All the Christmas No. 1s From 1952 to 2022.
Great fillers for your Christmas quizzes.
Or make an entire quiz from this list.

Order = Year - Artist - Song - Weeks at No. 1

1952 - Al Martino - "Here in My Heart" - 9

1953 - Frankie Laine - "Answer Me" - 8

1954 - Winifred Atwell - "Let's Have Another Party" - 5

1955 - Dickie Valentine - "Christmas Alphabet" - 3

1956 - Johnnie Ray - "Just Walkin' in the Rain" - 7

1957 - Harry Belafonte - "Mary's Boy Child" - 7

1958 - Conway Twitty - "It's Only Make Believe" - 5

1959 - Emile Ford & The Checkmates - "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?" - 6

1960 - Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "I Love You" - 2

1961 - Danny Williams - "Moon River" - 2

1962 - Elvis Presley - "Return to Sender" - 3

1963 - The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - 5

1964 - The Beatles - "I Feel Fine" - 5

1965 - The Beatles - "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" - 5

1966 - Tom Jones - "Green, Green Grass of Home" - 7

1967 - The Beatles - "Hello, Goodbye" - 7

1968 - The Scaffold - "Lily the Pink" - 3

1969 - Rolf Harris - "Two Little Boys" - 6

1970 - Dave Edmunds - "I Hear You Knocking" - 6

1971 - Benny Hill - "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)" - 4

1972 - Jimmy Osmond - "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" - 5

1973 - Slade - "Merry Xmas Everybody" - 5

1974 - Mud - "Lonely This Christmas" - 4

1975 - Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody" - 9

1976 - Johnny Mathis - "When A Child Is Born (Soleado)" - 3

1977 - Wings - "Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School" - 9

1978 - Boney M. - "Mary's Boy Child ? Oh My Lord" - 4

1979 - Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" - 5

1980 - St Winifred's School Choir - "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" - 2

1981 - The Human League - "Don't You Want Me" - 5

1982 - Rene and Renato - "Save Your Love" - 4

1983 - The Flying Pickets - "Only You" - 5

1984 - Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - 5

1985 - Shakin' Stevens - "Merry Christmas Everyone" - 2

1986 - Jackie Wilson - "Reet Petite" - 4

1987 - Pet Shop Boys - "Always on My Mind" - 4

1988 - Cliff Richard - "Mistletoe and Wine" - 4

1989 - Band Aid II - "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - 3

1990 - Cliff Richard - "Saviour's Day" - 1

1991 - Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody" / "These Are the Days of Our Lives" - 5

1992 - Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You" - 10

1993 - Mr Blobby - "Mr Blobby" - 2

1994 - East 17 - "Stay Another Day" - 5

1995 - Michael Jackson - "Earth Song" - 6

1996 - Spice Girls - "2 Become 1" - 3

1997 - Spice Girls - "Too Much" - 2

1998 - Spice Girls - "Goodbye" - 1

1999 - Westlife - "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun" - 4

2000 - Bob the Builder - "Can We Fix It?" - 3

2001 - Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman - "Somethin' Stupid" - 3

2002 - Girls Aloud - "Sound of the Underground" - 4

2003 - Michael Andrews & Gary Jules - "Mad World" - 3

2004 - Band Aid 20 - "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - 4

2005 - Shayne Ward - "That's My Goal" - 4

2006 - Leona Lewis - "A Moment Like This" - 4

2007 - Leon Jackson - "When You Believe" - 3

2008 - Alexandra Burke - "Hallelujah" - 3

2009 - Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name" - 1

2010 - Matt Cardle - "When We Collide" - 3

2011 - Military Wives with Gareth Malone - "Wherever You Are" - 1

2012 - The Justice Collective - "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother"

2013 - Sam Bailey "Skyscraper" - 1

2014 - Ben Haenow "Something I Need" - 1

2015 - THE LEWISHAM & GREENWICH NHS CHOIR - "A Bridge Over You" 2

2016 - Clean Bandit Ft Sean Paul & Anne-Marie – Rockabye - 9

2017 - Ed Sheeran – Perfect - 6

2018 - Ladbaby - We Built This City - 1

2019 - Ladbaby - I Love Sausage Rolls - 1

2020 - LadBaby - 'Don't Stop Me Eatin' ?

2021 - LadBaby - Sausage Rolls For Everyone - 1 (4th No. 1 in a row!)

2022 - LadBaby - "Food Aid" - (5th No. 1 in a row!)

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As Always... Enjoy!

Celebrating Christmas

Popular modern customs of Christmas include gift giving; completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath; Christmas music and caroling; viewing a Nativity play; an exchange of Christmas cards; church services; a special meal; and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, mistletoe, and holly.

In addition, several closely related and often interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associated with bringing gifts to children during the Christmas season.

However YOU celebrate Christmas, we hope it's fabulous.

Write Your Own Quizzes – Quiz4FREE Blog 5




Write Your Own Quiz - Quiz4FREE Blog 5 (Easy!)

3 Best Tips

Many of you nice folks have asked for tips on writing your own quiz, so here's my best shot at getting you started in quiz writing. Follow these ideas and you should have a quiz written in almost no time at all.

Before we get into writing a quiz, I want to remind you that if you wish to publish your quizzes (On-line or Off-line) you must be aware that plagiarism is a BIG No NO! Here's a snippet from Wikipedia "Plagiarism is the representation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work. In educational contexts, there are differing definitions of plagiarism depending on the institution."

However, if you just want to take a quiz along to your local for a quiz night etc. you can use a quiz from a book or one of our quizzes from one of our websites. Just don't publish it, or you could end up in trouble.

  • Tip 1 - If you want some local content in your quiz, then read local newspapers and listen to local radio stations. Always having a note pad and a pencil handy. There's often a tasty tid-bit of information that can be used as a question. One question I found for my local quiz was 'What was the name of the local butchers shop that closed down last Friday'. Simple but effective.
  • Tip 2 - Buy second hand quiz books from a charity shop (But remember my warning about plagiarism!).  These books can be used as inspiration to help you come up with an idea for a question. Here's an example using one of our own questions - "One quarter of all the hops in the world are grown in which country?" Answer - Germany. You could write " Germany produces a quarter of all 'What' used in the production of beer?' Answer - Hops. See how easy that was.
  • Tip 3 - Use the Internet. There are many ways to use the Internet to find questions. One way is to type in a famous persons name. In this example I typed into Google "Janet Street Porter" and found an article giving lots of information about her on Wikipedia -'Janet Vera Street-Porter CBE (née Bull; born 27 December 1946) is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality. She was the editor and producer of the Network 7 series on Channel Four, which was awarded a BAFTA for its graphics. She was also an editor for two years of The Independent on Sunday, but relinquished the job to become editor-at-large in 2002. Since 2011, she has been a regular weekly panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.

    Street-Porter has made numerous appearances on television programmes, including Question Time (1988–2015), I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (2004), Deadline (2007), Celebrity MasterChef (2013), and Have I Got News for You (1996–2018). She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and broadcasting'.

  • As you can see there are a mutitude of possible questions you could make from this article. Type in anything that interests you and you will get some really great results that you can turn into questions.

I hope this short artical about writing your own quiz has inspired you. There are many other ways to find new questions, just think outside of the box.

Good luck and PLEASE let me know when you've written your first quiz.

Thinking about: Writing Your Own Quiz.
Thinking about: Writing Your Own Quiz.

Jim Ackroyd

 

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Quiz 4 FREE – Site Update – Stay Safe

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Quiz 4 FREE - Site Update - Covid-19

Covid-19

I hope everyone is staying safe in the comfort of their home. It seems that there may be a little easing of the lockdown restrictions coming soon. For now though, continue as usual until you are informed it is safe to do otherwise. Remember it is not only your safety that matters but the safety of others, especially vulnerable people.

Site Update

Here at Quiz4FREE, we are doing all that we can on this site and our other sites to keep you entertained with fresh quizzes for you to enjoy.

We are uploading new quizzes on a daily basis across our network

On this site alone I have added around twelve new quizzes and articles over the last week. If anyone wants a certain type of quiz uploading, just ask, and we will always do our best to find something from our database.

That's all for now and once again - Stay Safe.

Jim Ackroyd

Quiz 4 FREE Site Update and the extra S




Quiz 4 FREE - Site Update and the extra 'S'

In just a matter of a few days I have got the website back online and fully functioning

I hope you are enjoying using Quiz 4 FREE in it's new format. You are welcome to let me know what you think about the new format. I would love to hear from you.

I still have much to do to get the site back to it's former glory and will be adding more content on a regular basis.

For those who don't know, Quiz 4 FREE goes back around 30 years and was designed using a now obsolete 'WYSIWYG' editor. (What you see is what you get!)

Unfortunately, a few years ago, the 'program' (App to the younger viewers) I was using to build my sites, stopped working properly and was no longer being supported by the company that made it. On top of that Google decided that websites that didn't have the extra 'S' (https rather than http) would be downgraded in the search engine rankings.

Not being a 'techy' I struggled to figure out how to get my sites secure (with the extra 'S'). Then I found out that by using WordPress to build websites made it a simple task to make the sites secure and also made building websites much easier.

Several of my websites are now using the WordPress system and the others will follow as time allows.

It was frightening to think that I may lose my websites after all these years but by studying the new technology I can now continue offering FREE quizzes for the foreseeable future.

Best regards

Jim Ackroyd

All the Christmas No. 1s From 1952 to Present




All the Christmas No. 1s From 1952 to 2021.

Great fillers for your Christmas quizzes. Or make an entire quiz from this list.

Order = Year - Artist - Song - Weeks at No. 1

1952 - Al Martino - "Here in My Heart" - 9

1953 - Frankie Laine - "Answer Me" - 8

1954 - Winifred Atwell - "Let's Have Another Party" - 5

1955 - Dickie Valentine - "Christmas Alphabet" - 3

1956 - Johnnie Ray - "Just Walkin' in the Rain" - 7

1957 - Harry Belafonte - "Mary's Boy Child" - 7

1958 - Conway Twitty - "It's Only Make Believe" - 5

1959 - Emile Ford & The Checkmates - "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?" - 6

1960 - Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "I Love You" - 2

1961 - Danny Williams - "Moon River" - 2

1962 - Elvis Presley - "Return to Sender" - 3

1963 - The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - 5

1964 - The Beatles - "I Feel Fine" - 5

1965 - The Beatles - "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" - 5

1966 - Tom Jones - "Green, Green Grass of Home" - 7

1967 - The Beatles - "Hello, Goodbye" - 7

1968 - The Scaffold - "Lily the Pink" - 3

1969 - Rolf Harris - "Two Little Boys" - 6

1970 - Dave Edmunds - "I Hear You Knocking" - 6

1971 - Benny Hill - "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)" - 4

1972 - Jimmy Osmond - "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" - 5

1973 - Slade - "Merry Xmas Everybody" - 5

1974 - Mud - "Lonely This Christmas" - 4

1975 - Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody" - 9

1976 - Johnny Mathis - "When A Child Is Born (Soleado)" - 3

1977 - Wings - "Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School" - 9

1978 - Boney M. - "Mary's Boy Child ? Oh My Lord" - 4

1979 - Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" - 5

1980 - St Winifred's School Choir - "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" - 2

1981 - The Human League - "Don't You Want Me" - 5

1982 - Rene and Renato - "Save Your Love" - 4

1983 - The Flying Pickets - "Only You" - 5

1984 - Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - 5

1985 - Shakin' Stevens - "Merry Christmas Everyone" - 2

1986 - Jackie Wilson - "Reet Petite" - 4

1987 - Pet Shop Boys - "Always on My Mind" - 4

1988 - Cliff Richard - "Mistletoe and Wine" - 4

1989 - Band Aid II - "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - 3

1990 - Cliff Richard - "Saviour's Day" - 1

1991 - Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody" / "These Are the Days of Our Lives" - 5

1992 - Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You" - 10

1993 - Mr Blobby - "Mr Blobby" - 2

1994 - East 17 - "Stay Another Day" - 5

1995 - Michael Jackson - "Earth Song" - 6

1996 - Spice Girls - "2 Become 1" - 3

1997 - Spice Girls - "Too Much" - 2

1998 - Spice Girls - "Goodbye" - 1

1999 - Westlife - "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun" - 4

2000 - Bob the Builder - "Can We Fix It?" - 3

2001 - Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman - "Somethin' Stupid" - 3

2002 - Girls Aloud - "Sound of the Underground" - 4

2003 - Michael Andrews & Gary Jules - "Mad World" - 3

2004 - Band Aid 20 - "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - 4

2005 - Shayne Ward - "That's My Goal" - 4

2006 - Leona Lewis - "A Moment Like This" - 4

2007 - Leon Jackson - "When You Believe" - 3

2008 - Alexandra Burke - "Hallelujah" - 3

2009 - Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name" - 1

2010 - Matt Cardle - "When We Collide" - 3

2011 - Military Wives with Gareth Malone - "Wherever You Are" - 1

2012 - The Justice Collective - "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother"

2013 - Sam Bailey "Skyscraper" - 1

2014 - Ben Haenow "Something I Need" - 1

2015 - THE LEWISHAM & GREENWICH NHS CHOIR - "A Bridge Over You" 2

2016 - Clean Bandit Ft Sean Paul & Anne-Marie – Rockabye - 9

2017 - Ed Sheeran – Perfect - 6

2018 - Ladbaby - We Built This City - 1

2019 - Ladbaby - I Love Sausage Rolls - 1

2020 - LadBaby -  'Don't Stop Me Eatin' ?

2021 - LadBaby - Sausage Rolls For Everyone - 1 (4th No. 1 in a row!)

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Welcome to Quiz 4 FREE

We are rebuilding Quiz 4 FREE from scratch. Please be patient whilst we get on with improving our site.
In the meantime you can find all the quizzes you can handle at:
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We are hoping to be back with you very soon.

Jim

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