Our 2025 Christmas Quiz: the results and the answers

The answers are in… how did you do in our 2025 Christmas Quiz?

By John Walton 2 min read
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Happy New Year! We’re delighted that so many of you entered our fiendishly difficult Christmas Quiz… and slightly proud that nobody got a perfect score.

Here’s how our leaderboard came out this year:

1) 21.5 points: Billie Nguyen

2) 20 points: Jake Smith

3) 19 points: Cristian Sutter

4) 18.5 points: Anonymous Reader J

5=) 18 points: Daniel Baron, Anonymous Reader E

7=) 17 points: Daniel Burnham, Kévin Hennerez-Sénac, Jason Rabinowitz

10) 16 points: Joanna Bailey

Congratulations to Billie — check your mailbox for an email!

Want the answers? Here they are…

1: Singapore Airlines, A330

A beige seat. What, you wanted ALT text help? Very sneaky.
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2: Volotea, A320 (we also accepted A319 in the end)

A grey seat.
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3: ITA, A350

A grey seat.
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4: Delta, MD-90 (note that we did not accept any other MD-80 variant as an answer, because the windows are different)

A blue seat. Genuinely impressed it took us until photo 4 to get a blue seat, not gonna lie.
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5: Air Astana, 757

A grey seat.
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6: Finnair, A340

A blue seat.
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7: OpenSkies (British Airways), 757

A beige seat.
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8: Icelandair, 757

A beige seat.
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9: Air Dolomiti, E190/E195 (we accepted both answers)

A teal seat.
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10: Lufthansa, Ju 52 (which we covered in 2025)

A beige seat.
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11 — the bonus round: Korean Air, A380

A silvery apparatus and a glass of Champagne.
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Congratulations to our winner and everyone who made it onto the leaderboard: we genuinely designed the quiz to be difficult, so getting double digits was quite the achievement.

Thanks for playing, a very happy new year to you, and all our best for 2026… more from us soon!

—John Walton, editor in chief, and Gareth Edwards, publisher

The Up Front Quiz
John Walton

Editor in chief of The Up Front, with two decades of experience reporting across the global aviation industry, specialising in business and first class, seats, cabins and the passenger experience.