Movies & TV
A mysterious package described with one mispronounced word.
What is FRAGILE? Fra-GEE-lay
In the poem“A Visit from St. Nicholas” Santa’s sleigh is pulled by a team with this total number of legs.
What is 32? (Eight reindeer, 4 legs each)
This joyful toy caused a buying frenzy just before Christmas 1996.
What is Tickle Me Elmo?
The prophet who foretold that “...a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.”
Who was Isiah?
This carol includes shepherds “...keeping their sheep on a cold winter’s night that was so deep."
The hardest thing about teaching the Challengers class.
Getting the %$#(*?"! TV to work.
A 2003 Christmas movie that took five years to animate because every movement was filmed in live action first, then painted over frame-by-frame.
What is The Polar Express?
Santa Claus has this in common with a Dr. Seuss character.
What is a red and white hat?
In 1983 these toys caused fistfights among parents waiting to buy them for their kids.
What are Cabbage Patch Kids?
The Gospel that tells the story of the wise men.
What is Matthew?
This Christmas song was written in 15 minutes by a Jewish songwriter who is one of America's icons.
What is "White Christmas?" (Irving Berlin)
Preston, Eleanor and Henry.
Who are three of the grandchildren of Challenger's members?
Six ingredients needed to make traditional eggnog.
What are milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, eggs, sugar, cream, bourbon or rum, and whipped cream?
Irish children often leave this out for Santa?
What is a pint of Guiness.? (In England it's Sherry, in France it's wine)
This doll, introduced in 1959, has become one of the most purchased holiday toys in history.
What is Barbie?
The shepherds were the first to hear the news of Jesus' birth from the angels, according to this Gospel.
What is Luke?
Gloria in excelsis Deo” translated into English.
What is glory to God in the highest?
This Mississippi river port was home to John James Audubon and a Challengers member (although not at the same time)
What is Natchez, Mississippi? (Peggy Forsyth)
Clara, Aunt Clara, and Clarence are key characters in these three Christmas classics.
What is The Nutcracker, A Christmas Story, and It’s a Wonderful Life
Three specific warnings are given to children in a classic Christmas song.
What is “...you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout” (in Santa Claus is Coming to Town)
This video game console made its debut in 1985 and became one of the that year's most in-demand Christmas gifts?
What is the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)?
The large group of angels who praised God before the shepherds.
What was the heavenly host?
This 1980s pop duo recorded between 1982 and 1986 and is responsible for the original recording of “Last Christmas.”
What is WHAM?
Four people who always sit on the back row.
Who are Julie, Gretchen, Randy and Chuck?
This character quotes from the book of Luke in a classic TV special.
Who is Linus?
The American fast food chain that is a Japanese Christmas dinner tradition.
What is Kentucky Fried Chicken?
This puzzle became a holiday craze in the early 1980s.
What is Rubik’s Cube?
The name of the angel who spoke to Mary.
Who is Gabriel?
The hymn that includes the line “veiled in flesh the Godhead see.”
What is "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"?
A choir member, a security team member and an AUMC Church Council member.
Who are [Names]
The first Christmas movie ever screened at the White House.
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
"Black Friday" was first used as a shopping term in this year.
What is 1961?
These stuffed toys were a major Christmas shopping craze in 1998?
What are Beanie Babies?
The birthplace of Jesus fulfills a prophecy from this Old Testament book.
What is Micah?
The Goo Goo Dolls are adamant that this song, popular year-round, is a Christmas song.
What is "Better Days?"
Five things served on the second Saturday of every month.
What are gits, eggs, sausage biscuits, fruit, gravy, coffee and sweets?
Angry parents forced a change in the original ending of the stop-motion classic, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, to remedy this oversight.
What is not saving the Island of Misfit Toys?
This country is believed to have created the tradition of Advent calendars.
What is Germany?
Early Advent countdowns were chalk marks on doors, lighting candles, or hanging devotional images. The first printed Advent calendar dates to the early 1900s.
This wildly popular building toy, first released almost 70 years ago, has maintained decades of Christmas dominance and has been called the “toy of the century.”
What are Legos?
The term for God becoming human in Jesus Christ.
What is The Incarnation?
This Christmas hit begins with the lyrics “Out of all the reindeer, you know you’re the mastermind.”
What is "Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry?"
Three of the organizations that benefit from Challengers volunteering.
Grace Klein
Redemptive Cycles
Urban Ministry
Oak Mountain Missions
Others will count!