Movie Plots
Oversized Santa’s helper goes to New York to find dad. Smiling’s his favorite.
Elf
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
Elf
Thanks to a wrong number in 1955, what agency now uses its massive satellite infrastructure to let kids know where Santa is?
NORAD
In a funny version on Jingle Bells, Batman may smell, but who lays an egg?
Robin
Whose heart was “two sizes too small”?
The Grinch
Obsessed kid asks for a specific gift despite being told how dangerous it is. Profanity spewing dad gets it for him. Watch out Black Bart!
A Christmas Story
Ma’am, I’m eight years old. You think I would be here “alone”? I don’t think so.
Home Alone
In 1939, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer was originally written for a marketing campaign for what retail store?
Montgomery Ward
What Christmas Carol includes threats by the singers to stay (and likely to continue singing) until receiving figgy pudding?
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Who is Rudolph’s girlfriend in the TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
Clarice
Man’s sacrifices save the town. It’s a good thing he was born, despite being worth more dead than alive. Hee Haw!
It's A Wonderful Life
Hiya kids. Here’s an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don’t buy drugs. Become a pop star, and the give you them for free.
Love Actually
Though the official one was put up in 1933, two years earlier Italian-American workers put up a smaller one and decorated it with strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans to lift their spirits during the depression.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
In the song 12 Days of Christmas, what gift is the first human gift?
8 maids a-milking
In A Charlie Brown Christmas, who plays the innkeeper’s wife in the annual Christmas play?
Frieda
Misunderstood, hirsute hermit decides to enact his revenge on those who bullied him as a child. Instead, he learns the meaning of Christmas and even corrects a serious heart condition.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
We shared a bowl of sugar, did some shots of brown liquor, played with my shotguns, field-dressed a cat, looked for women…
The Santa Clause
What newspaper originally published the editorial “Is There a Santa Claus?” in response to a letter sent by an 8-year-old girl named Virginia in 1897?
The Sun (New York Newspaper which closed in 1950)
In The Chipmunk Song, what does Alvin want for Christmas?
A hula hoop
The Simpsons premiered in 1989 as a Christmas special where Homer has to get a second job to pay for Christmas. What job does he get?
A mall Santa Claus
Performing rivals open a poorly thought-out entertainment venue that only opens a few times each year. Despite including a pretty offensive minstrel number, it does end with a rendition of a popular Christmas song and of course, a performance by LINDA Mason.
Holiday Inn
“Was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.”
Die Hard
What year did Radio City Music Hall first present their Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes?
1933
Complete the lyric: “And Michael, you would fall and turn…”
“The white snow red as strawberries in the summertime.”
Rankin and Bass created several popular (and not as popular) Christmas specials. Which one featured a clockmaker (voiced by Joel Grey) who built a clock that would sing to Santa to make him stop in their town after a mouse wrote a letter that made Santa mad?
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas