Find the iconic music video scenes in this festive brainteaser including Mariah Carey and The Pogues 🎄

The record is 59 seconds!

Festive brainteaser
Author: Anna Sky MagliolaPublished 6th Dec 2021
Last updated 6th Dec 2021

We are well and truly in the festive season now, with festive hits on Northsound 1 throughout the day, and Christmas decorations up across the country.

Now, we have a challenge for you. Can you spot all 10 Christmas music video scenes in this festive brainteaser? It includes some of the most iconic scenes including, Mariah Carey's Christmas outfit from 'All I Want for Christmas is You', and The Pogues' piano from 'Fairytale of New York'.

The challenge is not only finding the scenes, but doing it in less that 59 seconds...

Can you find all 10 iconic music video scenes?

Can you find the 10 iconic music video scenes in less than 59 seconds?
The music video scenes include songs by Mariah Carey, Spice Girls and Band Aid to name just a few.

Festive brainteaser: The answers

1) Michael Bublé - 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town'
2) Spice Girls - 'When 2 Become 1'
3) Band Aid - 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'
4) The Pogues - 'Fairytale of New York'
5) Mariah Carey - 'All I Want for Christmas is You'
6) Wizzard - 'Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday'
7) Shakin' Stevens - 'Merry Christmas Everyone'
8) East 17 - 'Stay Another Day'
9) Wham - 'Last Christmas'
10) Peter Auty - 'Walking In The Air (The Snowman)'


Merry Christmas from everyone at Northsound 1.

Now take a look at some Christmas facts that you might not know:

Christmas cards

1) The UK donates around £50 million a year by purchasing charity Christmas cards.

Christmas cards

2) 100 million individual cards are sold and an additional 900 million are sold in multipacks and by online providers, bringing in around £1.5 billion!

Christmas Presents

3) A massive 910,000,000 metres of wrapping paper is used each year which is 565,447 miles and would go around the world 22 times.

Decorating your house

4) UK adults admit to spending on average 25 hours perfecting their Christmas style, whether it is lights, tinsel, baubles, or a combination of all of them.

Santa traditions

5) On Christmas Eve an estimated 16.2 million mince pies and 16.2 million carrots will be left out as snacks for Santa and his reindeer.

Santa traditions

6) 13 million Brits will also be leaving a whisky for the big man, and 10.4 million will leave a beer.

Christmas Food

7) The average person spends £228 on food over Christmas.

Christmas Food

8) On average we also eat eight chocolates each, equating to a massive 520,800,000 nationwide.

Christmas Food

9) When it comes to Christmas dinner, the average number of sprouts eaten is six, equating to 390,600,000 Brussels sprouts eaten across the nation.

Christmas Food

10) Five mince pies are eaten each, totalling 325,500,000 nationwide.

Christmas Food

11) And four pigs in blankets are eaten per person, which totals 260,400,000 cooked nationwide.

Christmas Food

12) Amazingly each person will also eat three Christmas puddings over the Christmas period, amounting to 195,300,000 consumed nationwide! Feeling full yet?

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