Christmas Tunes
The Silver Screen
Before and After
Heard in Hinkle
Potpourri
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The best selling Christmas Song of All Time, it helps when you have a very popular movie of the same name. 

What is White Christmas?
100
Grossing over 2.9 Billion dollars, this movie still holds the record as the highest grossing film of all time.

What is Avatar (2009)?

100

The two leads in the original film version of Grease combine in this way.

What is Olivia Newton John Travolta?

100

He's a loverboy at play
Girl, he don't play by rules (Oh-ho)
Uh-oh, girl, don't play the fool, no

What is Cold Hearted?

100

This fictional creature is the national animal of Scotland

What is the unicorn?

200

Written 10 years before Hawaii was even a member of the Union, this Christmas song has us all transported somehwere green and bright for the holidays. 

What is Mele Kalikimaka?

200

The name of the anthemic dance near the start of Rocky Horror Picture Show

What is The Time Warp?

200

The 16th president of the US and the popular children's toy commemorating his boyhood home. 

What are Abraham Lincoln Logs?

200

Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night, I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need

What is Holding Out for a Hero?

200

This is the only bird that is known to fly backwards

What is a hummingbird?

300

For those of you mathematically inclined, some clever work with tetahedral numbers [T(n) = (1/6)(n)(n+1)(n+2)] would tell you that this carol provides the listener 364 gifts for Christmas!

What is The 12 Days of Christmas?

300

After first viewing, this film brought John Williams to tears saying "You need a better composer." Spielberg responds, "yes, but they're all dead."

What is Schindler's List?

300

Absorbent and Porous and Yellow is this animated character and an idiomatic saying about his fibbing ways. 

Who is Spongebob Squarepants on Fire?

300

Baby, baby, it looks like it's gonna hail
Baby, baby, it looks like it's gonna hail

What is Jump Jive and Wail?

300

This book which recently entered the public domain begins "In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since"

What is the Great Gatsby?

400

The lyrics: "Bah, humbug" no, that's too strong
'Cause it is my favorite holiday
But all this year's been a busy blur
Don't think I have the energy

might resonate with you busy college kids as you approach the mountain of deadlines. 

What is Christmas Wrapping?

400

Some of the best wisdom from this film includes the line "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." and "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line."

What is the Princess Bride?

400

The cornerstone item at a fast food joint known for its golden arches and a shakespearean tragedy

What is Big MacBeth?

400

Looking at the crowd
And I see your body sway, c'mon
Wishin' I could thank you in a different way, c'mon
'Cause all of your time spent keeps us alive

What is Larger than Life?

400

Born Eunice Waymon, this vocalist is known for I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to Be Free, I put a Spell on You, and Feeling Good. 

Whos is Nina Simone?

500
With text from 1688, this carol tells the story of two titular characters discovering the baby Jesus in a manger by pure happen stance. 

What is "Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella?"

500

The story of Christopher McCandless is immortalized in this 2007 movie. I just wouldn't run into the Alaskan wilderness if I were you..

What is Into the Wild?

500

A beloved TV scientist takes a detour from the lab to Flavortown with a spiky-haired chef

Bill Nye the Science Guy Fieri

500

I need someone to show me
The things in life that I can't find
I can't see the things that make
True happiness, I must be blind

What is Paranoid?


500

Hiram Bingham of Yale discovered this Incan fortress city about 50 miles northwest of Cuzco

What is Machu Picchu?

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