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How Well Do You Know: Christmas in TV and the Movies, Part 3
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1. Though one plotline sees a character go to France and another to America, most of the action in Love Actually takes place in this faraway (well, unless you live there) land:
England
Germany
Australia
Canada
 
2. And what happened then...? Well...in Who-ville they say
That the Grinch's small heart grew ________ sizes that day!
Twelve
Ten
Five
Three
 
3. If this is their idea of Christmas, I *gotta* be here for New Year's. This character puts a lid on the original Die Hard with these words:
Joseph Takagi
John McClane
Holly Gennero and/or McClane
Argyle
 
4. In a 2008 film, instead of jetting off to a tropical vacation, Brad and Kate get to celebrate how many Christmases?
Two
Four
Eight
Twelve
 
5. This actress popularized Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas when she sings it in Meet Me in St. Louis:
Ingrid Bergman
Judy Garland
Marilyn Monroe
Bette Davis
 
6. Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis teamed up in 2004's Christmas with the Kranks, which was a film adaptation of the novel Skipping Christmas. Which well-known genre writer wrote the book?
John Grisham
James Patterson
Michael Crichton
Patricia Cromwell
 
7. Rosemary (yes, George's aunt) Clooney and Vera-Ellen are the singing and dancing Betty and Judy Haynes in this classic film:
The Bells of St. Mary's
It's a Wonderful Life
Christmas in Connecticut
White Christmas
 
8. If you were paid $100,000 by Ben Affleck to pretend to be his family at Christmas to reconcile with his girlfriend, then your life would be mirroring what 2004 holiday movie?
Stealing Christmas
The Family Man
Surviving Christmas
Deck the Halls
 
9. In The Santa Clause 3, there is a meeting of The Council of Legendary Figures at the North Pole. Which of these 'legendary figures' is not present at the meeting?
Father Time
Cupid
Sandman
Uncle Sam
 
10. You know that the U.S. Postal Service validates the existence of Santa in the original Miracle on 34th Street. But what government body is credited with convincing a judge likewise in the 90s remake?
Department of Defense
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
The Supreme Court
By way of explanation.....
Dylan McDermott uses the "In God We Trust" printed on our money to make the argument that we don't see God but believe He exists.
 
11. This well-known actor provides the voice of "North", who you might recognize better as Santa, in Rise of the Guardians
Alec Baldwin
Steve Carell
Hugh Grant
Will Farrell
 
12. Being stranded in an airport for the holidays isn't the ideal but that's how it turns out for the kids in Unaccompanied Minors. The film starred a bunch of unknown kids and which notable That 70's Show actor?
Wilmer
Ashton
Topher
Mila
 
13. The Polar Express featured various motion captured performances by Tom Hanks. Throwing an old friend a bone, which former Hanks co-star got to do the performance for Billy (the boy on the train who Tom's Hero Boy befriends)?
Forrest Gump's Gary Sinise
Bosom Buddies' Peter Scolari
Philadelphia's Antonio Banderas
Bachelor Party's Adrian Zmed
 
14. In Christmas Vacation, as sewage gas explosion propels Santa and reindeer ornaments across the sky, the extended Griswold clan sings this well-known non-holiday song:
YMCA
Eye of the Tiger
The Star Spangled Banner
Stairway to Heaven
 
15. Roger Ebert called this holiday horror "a rather brilliant lump of coal for your stocking" and considered it "an R-rated Santa Claus origin story crossed with The Thing." Name this 2010 Finnish movie:
Jack Frost
Rare Exports
Horror of the Holidays
Black Christmas
 
16.
Yukon Cornelius, the Greatest Prospector of the North, figures into a holiday TV special revolving primarily around which character?
Santa
Frosty the Snowman
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Grinch
 
17. Gathered 'round Charlie Brown's Christmas tree, the Peanuts gang launches into this carol at the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas:
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
The Little Drummer Boy
O Holy Night
Ding Dong Merrily on High
 
18. This is the primary duty of the Disney Prep and Landing elves:
To determine which present a child most wants for Christmas
To raise and tend to Santa's reindeer
To make houses ready for Santa's arrival
To keep the Naughty and Nice lists
 
19. References to Festivus have become deeply rooted in holiday pop culture lore. This classic episode of Seinfeld created this holiday for the rest of us:
The Contest
The Burning
The Maid
The Strike
 
20. One of the final scenes of this film shows the family eating a a Chinese restaurant:
Scrooged
Elf
A Christmas Story
The Holiday
 




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