Movie/Show Quotes
"I just like to smile. Smiling's my favorite"
Elf (2003)
Wii Console (November 2006)
$249.99
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This 1946 film follows the life of George Bailey and his guardian angel Clarence.
It's A Wonderful Life
Which country has many people who traditionally eat KFC at Christmas?
Joel R. Poinsett, the very first U.S. minister to Mexico, brought back what plant from a visit in 1828?
Poinsetta
Original name: “flor de nochebuena”: "Christmas Eve Flower"
"I smell snow."
Gilmore Girls
Mr. Potato Head (1952)
$0.98
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In A Charlie Brown Christmas, which carol does the Peanuts gang sing at the end?
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Australia
In 1955, at the height of the Cold War, a general at the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) in Colorado received a call on a top-secret hotline. Bracing himself for news of a missile attack, the general instead heard a young boy asking, “Are you really ________?"
"Santa Claus?”
(The number had been mistakenly published in the newspaper as a Sears Santa hotline. CONAD now named NORAD still operates the Santa Tracker to this day.)
“You'll shoot your eye out, kid.”
A Christmas Story
Nintendo Entertainment System (1986)
$199.99
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This 1994 hit is the most-streamed song on Spotify of all time.
All I Want For Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
In what modern-day country was Saint Nicholas born?
Turkey
Which of these events did NOT happen on Christmas Day:
Washington crossing the Delaware
Libya declares independence
The signing of the Treaty of Ghent
Apollo 8 orbiting the moon for the first time
Libya declared independence on December 24 :)
“Tell her that you love her. You’ve got nothing to lose and you’ll always regret it if you don’t."
Love Actually (2003)
Tickle Me Elmo (1996)
$29.99
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Name either the highest-grossing Christmas movie or second highest grossing of all time.
The Grinch (2018) #1
Home Alone (1990) #2
Which country started the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree?
Germany
The tradition of kissing under the mistletoe comes from what mythological tradition?
Norse Mythology. Frigg, the goddess of love, promised to kiss any creature that passed beneath the evergreen sprig after it was used to revive her son, Baldur, from the dead (after initially killing him).
"Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind"
Miracle on 34th Street
Cabbage Patch Kid (1983)
$39.99
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Name all of Santa's 9 reindeer: +50 points for each reindeer.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph.
Which pole is colder: the North or South?
The South Pole is a lot colder than the North Pole.
In a very famous photo during World War I's "Christmas Truce," what game are the soldiers from both sides playing?
Soccer