Home Alone
(I & II)
Elf
The Santa Clause
The Grinch
Nightmare Before Christmas
Other Movies
100

Film One: Kevin has pizza delivered from this fictitious pizza company.

Little Nero's Pizza
VIDEO CLIP

100

Buddy makes breakfast spaghetti for himself and his dad, which includes marshmallows, M&Ms, as well as chocolate and maple syrups. He tops it off with this pastry.

Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tarts

VIDEO CLIP

100

When Scott Calvin meets Judy the elf for the first time, she gives him a cup of hot cocoa of her own recipe. She then tells him it took her this long to get the recipe correct.

1,200 years

VIDEO CLIP

100
Jim Carrey admitted to mimicking this famous actor's accent for his portrayal of the Grinch for the live action film

Sean Connery

VIDEO CLIP

100

When Zero pesters Jack to play fetch near the beginning of the film, he relents and tosses this item so Zero can fetch it.

One of his own ribs


100

In the 1996 film Jingle All The Way, this is the name of the toy that Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to buy for his son

Turbo Man

VIDEO CLIP

200

Film Two: In order to reserve a room at the Plaza Hotel, Kevin records his voice and then plays back the recording slowly into the phone to deepen the sound of his voice. His voice was recorded using a fictitious electronic device with this name.

The Talkboy

VIDEO CLIP

200

Buddy the Elf creeps on his soon-to-be friend Jovie while she is taking a shower and sings a secret duet with her of this classic Christmas song. 

Baby It's Cold Outside

VIDEO CLIP

200

The grunting sounds effects used for Comet the reindeer in the film are reused SFX clips from this classic video game from 1993

200

While watching the real Santa Claus through binoculars and describing him as a recluse, the Grinch gives this as the probable reason why Saint Nick lives at the North Pole

To avoid the taxes

VIDEO CLIP

200

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

The Walt Disney Company and producer Tim Burton famously fought over this aspect of Jack Skellington, with Disney arguing that it was too frightening for young children. Burton held strong and was allowed to preserve Jack the way he was originally envisioned. 

His lack of eyes

200

This is the name of the evil magician in the 1969 children's animated short film Frosty the Snowman

Professor Hinkle

VIDEO CLIP

300

Film One: At the start of the film, a pizza delivery man drops off 10 pizzas and asks for payment of this amount.   (Within $3)

$122.50

VIDEO CLIP

300

When Buddy first decides to leave the North Pole, he is encouraged to embark on his journey to find his father by a wise snowman with this name, which is a classic holiday word spelled backwards. 

300

When Santa Claus gets arrested, the elf Bernard sounds the alarm which deploys a special team of elves to break him out. The team is known by an acronym, which stands for these four words. 

E.L.F.S. stands for "Effective Liberating Flight Squad."

VIDEO CLIP

300

According to the book, the Grinch has been putting up with the Christmas celebrations in Whoville for this number of years

53 years

VIDEO CLIP

300

This famous actor narrated the original introduction to the film, which was eventually cut from the final production, but can still be found as a track in the film's soundtrack.

Patrick Stewart

300
In an attempt to trick his mother into getting him a Red Ryder BB gun, Ralphie hides a flyer for the gun in a copy of "Look" magazine which has this famous childhood actor on the cover.

Shirley Temple

VIDEO CLIP

400

Film One: Kevin announces to his invisible family that he is "watching rubbish" as he inserts a VHS tape into his television for a fictitious movie with this title. 

"Angels with Filthy Souls"

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400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

During his training at the North Pole, Buddy is told that this is second rule in "the Code of Elves." 

2. "There's room for everyone on the nice list."

VIDEO CLIP

400

This is the name of the santa-themed toy that is presented in the board room meeting that Scott Calvin attends for his company, which Scott finds offensive on several levels. 

Total Tank

VIDEO CLIP

400

This famous singer originally wrote the main song for the film, titled "Where are you Christmas?" and was originally set to record it for the soundtrack until a legal issue prevented her from doing so. The song was re-recorded and released by artist Faith Hill. 

Mariah Carey

400

There are this number of animated frames for each second of the movie, which took over three years to film, involving over 100 stop-motion animators.

12 frames per second


400

Tom Hanks voices this number of characters in the cinematic representation of the classic Christmas children's book The Polar Express

6

500

Film Two: At the end of the film, Kevin's brother Buzz receives a room service bill from the Plaza Hotel for this amount. (Within $10)

$967.43

VIDEO CLIP

500

At the start of the film, Buddy is behind on meeting his quota for making this toy.

(100 bonus points for providing the full quota of toys Buddy was expected to make)

Etch-a-Sketch
(The quota is 1000) 

VIDEO CLIP

500

This is the 4-digit code the first elf enters into the "north pole" to grant Scott and Charlie access to Santa's secret underground toy shop. 

500

This is the first name the Grinch reads from the phone book after deciding to declare his hatred for each Who alphabetically

Aardvarkian Abakenezer Who

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500

Solving this equation from the chalkboard in Jack's experimentation room will yield an answer of 355. 

3pi^2 * 12 = ?

The 355th day of the year is this calendar date.

That date is the birthday of Jeffrey Katzenberg who was the head of Walt Disney Studio Animation at the time the film was made.

December 21st


500

In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark receives a letter from his company he mistakes as his bonus but is actually a certificate for this instead.

A one year membership to the Jelly of the Month club

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