Holiday "It" Toy
1937: This holiday toy had a retail price of $2, but you could buy real estate for the bargain price of $500. This clue includes a top hat, thimble, and sometimes jail time.
What is "Monopoly"
This actor played Frank Cross in 1988's Scrooged.
Who is Bill Murray
In a Christmas Story, this is the character name of Ralphie's mother.
What is "Mother"
This clothing item brings "Frosty the Snowman" to life in the classic holiday special
What is a hat
This living room holiday staple takes 15 years to grow.
What is a Christmas tree (will accept phrasing close to this)
1977: This toy offered streamlined playability and a slew of great titles like "Frogger," "Pac-Man," and "Space Invaders."
What is "Atari"
The incomparable Alan Rickman played this villain in 1988's Die Hard (yes, it's a Christmas movie. Get over it.)
Who is Hans Gruber
This actress plays Kate McAllister, the mom from Home Alone. She is iconic in this role, as well as her roles in Beetlejuice and Schitt's Creek.
Who is Catherine O'Hara
Daily Double---400---This show featured a two-part Christmas special entitled "Benihana Christmas Parts 1 and 2", in which the manager of the company brought two waitresses from a restaurant back to the staff Christmas party-only to find out they were teenagers. The episode ends in a karaoke rendition of "The Little Drummer Boy".
What is the Office
It takes more than eight million lights to decorate this “magic kingdom” for Christmas.
What is Disneyland
1956: This product was created from wallpaper cleaning products after children and teachers complained about the rigidity of clay in art classes. It became sold in a whole rainbow of colors, and a smell that any parent to a child under 5 will never forget.
What is "Play-Doh"
It's easy to cast a crooked politician as a villain, but it takes a certain amount of skill to outdo Jim Carrey's Grinch in terms of meanness. This was the name of the evil Mayor in the Grinch that Stole Christmas.
Who is Mayor Maywho
'The Holiday' is a 2006 romantic comedy inspired by the Nancy Meyers novel of the same name. It involves two 30-something women that switch homes for the holiday, one in Los Angeles and one in England. The cast stars Cameron Diaz and this Oscar winning actress.
DAILY DOUBLE- 600---This sitcom starring Joel McHale featured a beloved 2010 holiday episode made using classic stop-motion animation
What is community
DAILY DOUBLE--600----Sarah Jessica Parker’s character spills this multi-layered egg dish all over herself in the 2005 holiday romantic comedy, “The Family Stone.”
What is a Strate
DAILY DOUBLE- 800 ----
1976: You could pull, twist, throw, beat, and bend him, but you couldn't break him. Made from a proprietary blend of plastic, rubber, and gel, the iconic figurine could stretch his limbs up to four times their normal size.
What is "Stretch Armstrong"
DAILY DOUBLE----800---A Christmas Story relies on a lot of nostalgic elements of growing up, including Ralphie's memories of his childhood bully named this.
Zooey Deschanel plays the love interest to Buddy the Elf in the holiday hit "Elf". This is her character's name.
Who is Jovie.
This is the sort of animal playing Feathers McGraw in Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers?
What is a Penguin
At Christmastime, Santa rings a bell in front of grocery stores and collects money in red kettles for this charitable organization.
What is the Salvation Army?
2007: The first retail video game to reach 1 billion dollars in sale. It is interactive and will make you feel Free (as a) Bird.
What is "Guitar Hero"
This 1974 Holiday slasher is where Billy comes home from escaping the insane asylum to find it has been transformed into a sorority. Billy is one to keep your eye on.
What is Black Christmas
This actress was iconic in the early 2000's for both roles on screen, as well as antics off screen. After a several year acting-hiatus she had a career comeback in Netflix holiday movies. Most recently, she starred in "Our Little Secret" (2024). The actress is
Who is Lindsay Lohan
DAILY DOUBLE---1000---The two stars of this series spend Christmas Eve in a haunted house in a 1998 season six holiday episode called "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"
What is the X-Files
DAILY DOUBLE---1000---The Rockettes perform their Christmas spectacular, high kicks and all, in this famous New York theater.
What is Radio City Music Hall