YULETIDE FAVORITES
IN DEFENSE OF FRUITCAKE
JOYCE TO THE WORLD
CHRISTMAS MOVIES
SANTA GOES AROUND THE WORLD
CLASSIC TOYS
100
He said, "Let's run and we'll have some fun now before I melt away"
Frosty The Snowman
100
In the Bahamas not only is the fruitcake drenched in this potent potable, the ingredients are as well.
Rum
100
Joyce Hall co-founded this greeting card company.
Hallmark
100
In a 1970 film, Alec Guinness played Jacob Marley's ghost & Albert Finney played this man.
Scrooge
100
This state capital is 40 miles west of Las Vegas (New Mexico).
Santa Fe
100
In 1954 Lesney Products issued its first 4 tiny die-cast cars in this line.
Matchbox
200
In the rarely sung intro to this Irving Berlin song, the narrator is in Beverly Hills dreaming "to be up north".
White Christmas
200
In "Martin Chuzzlewit", this author called fruitcake "a geological homemade cake".
Charles Dickens
200
Familiar to TV viewers as a talk show guest, this psychologist received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
200
Natalie Wood was just 8 years old when she played the little girl Susan in this Christmas classic.
Miracle on 34th Street
200
Columbus' ship would've been at home on this Arizona river, a tributary of the Bill Williams River.
Santa Maria
200
This classic toy company has "block"ed out a new area with its Mindstorms robotic kits .
Lego
300
This song's Latin chorus, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo", means "Glory to God in the Highest".
Angels We Have Heard On High
300
A spicy fruitcake from Italy, panforte means "strong" this.
Bread
300
This "Trees" poet was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Joyce Kilmer
300
Bing Crosby introduced the song "White Christmas" not in the movie "White Christmas" but in this earlier film.
Holiday Inn
300
An Orange County city, an El Salvador volcano or a hot, dusty wind that bears down on Los Angeles.
Santa Ana
300
Introduced in 1916 on the heels of Erector sets & Tinkertoys, they were the "Wright" building material.
Lincoln Logs
400
This Brenda Lee perennial failed to chart in 1958 & 1959, but its re-release in 1960 reached No. 14
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
400
Gugelhupf, a German fruitcake also called turban cake, may date from the effort of these people to conquer the region.
The Ottomans (or the Turks)
400
His 1901 essay "The Day of the Rabblement" attacked the Irish Literary Theatre for catering to popular taste.
James Joyce
400
In this movie "2", Tim Allen has to find a Mrs., ASAP; says so in his contract.
The Santa Clause 2
400
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A California county, an ex-NBC soap opera, or a Philippine municipality near the Jaro River.
400
Daisy's X2-31 Disintegrator gun of 1934 was for kids playing this 25th century hero.
Buck Rogers
500
"I'll be home for Christmas, you can plan on me, please have snow and" this "and presents on the tree"
Mistletoe
500
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In theirs, the ancient Romans used pine nuts, barley mash & seeds from this red fruit associated with Persephone.
500
You heard it here: Anglo-Irish writer Joyce Cary wrote the comic novel "The Horse's" this.
Mouth
500
In this movie, Tim Allen & Jamie Lee Curtis consider skipping the holidays altogether & taking a cruise.
Christmas With The Kranks
500
It's the Italian name for the patron saint of sight, or for the area seen here on the Bay of Naples
Santa Lucia
500
In the 1970s this device that uses light bulbs to cook was redesigned to look like a microwave.
Easy Bake Oven