A Charlie Brown Christmas
Which character ultimately tells Charlie Brown what Christmas is all about?
Linus
According to IMDB, Winnetka’s New Trier High School was the basis for North Shore High School in this 2004 comedy written by Tina Fey.
Mean Girls
She released her debut album in 1990 and has sold over 200 million records worldwide. Her holiday album is the best-selling Christmas album of all time. In 2008, she performed a New Year’s Eve concert for the family of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Mariah Carey
2016 National League MVP joins the host of HBO’s Real Sports
Kris Bryant Gumbel
He pickled the beast and stole home as a Dodger to beat the Giants.
Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez (The Sandlot)
Every Christmas it’s the same - Shermy ends up playing one of these.
A Shepherd
When Jake gets upset with Elwood in The Blues Brothers that the cops are going to find them, Elwood tells him he falsified his vehicle registration renewal. Put down 1060 W. Addison. What’s at 1060 W. Addison?
Wrigley Field
Debuted June 20, 2003 in Miami, Florida. This 37-year old is his league’s most recent back-to-back MVP. He had to win the triple crown to get his first MVP, hitting .330 with 44 home runs and 139 RBI in 2012.
Miguel Cabrera
A high school chemistry teacher with inoperable lung cancer goes to Vermont to help Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney save a failing inn.
Walter White Christmas
A recovering alcoholic and notorious womanizer, he pitched for the Boston Red Sox and was a member of the Red Sox 1975 American League championship team. After his playing career, he opened a bar.
Sam Malone (Cheers)
What character does Charlie Brown sarcastically thank for the Christmas card he obviously didn’t get?
Violet
Besides Wrigley Field and the Chicago Board of Trade, name one of the two other tourist destinations that Ferris Bueller, Sloane, and Cameron go to on their day off.
Sears Tower, Art Institute
He’s run a frozen banana stand, knocked up Eliot Page, played bass in two different bands, been slapped by Rihanna, and played in Jessica Chastain’s poker game.
Michael Cera
2005 #1 overall draft pick joins the group that sang “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” and performed at Woodstock
Sidney Crosby, Stills, and Nash
She convinced her dad to start a new pee-wee football team in their hometown of Urbania, Ohio to take on her uncle’s team that cut her during tryouts. She also dabbled in cheerleading.
Becky "Icebox" O'Shea (Little Giants)
The Peanuts gang gather to sing this Christmas carol at the end of the show.
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
John Cusack owns a record shop in Wicker Park in this 2000 film that features scenes shot at Double Door, Green Mill, Lounge Ax, and has lots of top-five lists. Lots of top-five lists.
High Fidelity
Founded in 1880, it adopted its current name in 1894 when it also adopted its current colors. In 2019, Forbes estimated it the fifth most valuable of its kind at $2.69 billion. Since 2011, this has won 14 trophies. They won the Championship in 2002.
Manchester City
Black Sabbath bassist joins the college basketball team that plays at Hinkle Fieldhouse
Geezer Butler Bulldogs
He was the top high school basketball recruit in the country in 1997. His dad was in prison for killing his wife, but was released on parole for one week by the state’s governor so he can persuade his son to go to the governor’s alma mater, Big State. Really worked hard for that name, Spike.
Jesus Shuttlesworth (He Got Game)
A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS on December 9, 1965 with an estimated 15,490,000 homes watching the special. What show did it pre-empt that night?
The Munsters
In this 1997 film, you can see Julia Roberts dash to and from O’Hare, the El, Comiskey Park, and Fourth Presbyterian Church on the Mag Mile.
My Best Friend's Wedding
Born in Poland in 1867. Died in 1934. Shared a Nobel Prize in physics in 1903, but declined to go to Stockholm to receive it because, you know, work. Won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911 for discovering two elements.
Marie Curie
A plane full of prison inmates gets hijacked while listening to “All Out of Love”
Con Air Supply
He’s the owner/player/coach of the failing Flint Tropics, famous for the aging disco hit “Love Me Sexy”
Jackie Moon (Semi-Pro)