Holiday Films
All I want for Christmas is this. (P.S. my name is Ralphie).
What is a "Red Ryder air rifle"? (will also accept "Red Ryder BB gun")
Launched in October of 1985, this was the "must-have" Christmas gift of the year moving children further away from traditional toys.
What is the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)?
Decking the halls with boughs of this evergreen can really spruce up your Christmas decorations.
What is holly?
The first manned flight of the Saturn V rocket orbited this celestial body on Christmas Eve of 1968 broadcasting images back to viewers at home.
What is the moon?
Due to a successful marketing ploy in the 1970's, today, 3.6 million Japanese people flock to this American-based fast-food retailer each Christmas for their "party buckets".
What is KFC?
1994's The Santa Clause, sees this actor become Kris Kringle after accidentally knocking him off of his roof.
Who is Tim Allen?
Sony released the first one of these for consumer use in 1983, ensuring that those embarrassing holiday memories will never be forgotten.
What is a camcorder?
During the holiday of Hanukkah, the shamash candle is used to light all other candles on this nine-slotted candelabra.
What is a menorah?
Now widely considered gaudy, this material was used to create many Christmas trees of the 1960's.
What is aluminum?
Bring us some of this! Bring us some of this! This being a traditional steamed cake found on British tables during the holidays.
What qualifies as a Christmas movie? This action flick sparks the debate every holiday season and features an NYPD officer that tries to save his wife from German terrorists during a Christmas party in LA.
What is Die Hard?
As part of the "Just Say No" campaign, in 1983, a few weeks before Christmas, Nancy Reagan invited this actor known for his role as the boxer Clubber Lang to the White House dressed as Santa Claus.
Who is Mr. T?
Frosty the Snowman began to do this when a magic hat was placed upon his head.
What is "dance around"?
Believed to be a disaster by network executives for its simplistic animation, a jazz soundtrack and anti-consumerism message, this Christmas special made its debut on CBS on December 9, 1965 and continues to air to this day.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
During Hanukkah, applesauce is often served with these traditional Jewish potato pancakes.
What are latkes?
In the 1966 made-for-TV movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the Grinch learns how to be kind along with having his heart grow this many sizes.
What is three?
First recorded in a single day on November 25, 1984 by the supergroup Band Aid, this Christmas hit that was inspired by the famine in Ethiopia at the time.
What is "Do They Know It's Christmas?"?
As a response during the aftermath of the Watts uprising of Los Angeles, this holiday was created in 1966.
What is Kwanzaa?
Having been given a Christmas gift by her friends of a year's wages, this American author wrote a classic of modern American literature that would be made into a film starring Gregory Peck just two years later.
Who is Harper Lee?
Previously a staple at Christmas, this fowl began disappearing from holiday dinner tables due to the boom in turkey breeding in the 1940s.
What is the goose?
In the 1989 classic, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, instead of an annual Christmas bonus, Clark Griswold receives a membership to this club prompting cousin Eddie to kidnap his boss.
What is the Jelly of the Month Club?
On Christmas Day in 1989, Leonard Bernstein conducted a special performance of Beethoven’s ninth symphony with musicians from the great orchestras of Germany, Russia, France, Britain and the USA to celebrate this event that occurred a few weeks earlier.
The first Hanukkah celebration in the White House was held by this US president who also made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan during WWII.
Who is Harry Truman?
In 1968, this stand-up comedian and movie star remarked, "Vietnam is the only place where you can get a Purple Heart from opening your Christmas presents", while onstage hosting an overseas Christmas special that featured celebrities of the day including Raquelle Welch.
Who is Bob Hope?
Family members host a party to make large quantities of this food found traditionally on Mexican tables on Christmas.
What are tamales?